I have been away from/. for over three years for this very reasons-too many cointelpros clogging up the echo chamber. I'm sick to death of you all! You know exactly who I'm fingering, and I expect my excellent karma to go to crap. Go to Hell!
On the other hand, the poster is exactly right, but think of what YOU are expecting of a candidate: media support by Rupert Murdoc, one who is entirely in league with control systems. A "Tough" stance on "dem arabs". Dotters, if someone mistrated you as henously as we have their countries, with the hubris we have, THEY would be smashed to bits! Trivia(?): Did you know we went to war with England over a centralized bank note system? Googled:"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson, letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, 1802
You want another depression? Go wiki it. Hyperinflation: caused by central banking systems inflating monetary systems. We have already experienced higher debt rates than the depression, due to the fact our money comes with inflation built in! Precious metals are taking flight against the dollar, and you want to argue who looks best in a friggin' flight suit??? You want continual war(McCain says 100 years) that drives debt up the wall??? War for what??? The Pentagon already "lost" over $4 trillion, an ammount that could set every American for life.
ALL of you are rearranging the deckchairs!! What do you THINK caused all the calamity??? Some guy in a cave? How are we supposed to become more safe by giving up all our liberties?? Oh, I know! "They hate us because of our freedoms[, so if we kill all civil liberties, they wont hate us anymore!]" Someone forgot the chapter on "Those who give up essential liberty for security deserve neither!"-Benjamin Franklin
As if anyone cares, most people cant tell who the Vice Pres is(Dick-"I live in Dubai!"-Cheney).
All I can tell is you want another corporate bought-off candidate! "Electable"
This is the last pearl I dare give the swine
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -Frederick Douglass.
Double books work for accounting, why not double accounting for machines? Have 2 companies running software out of same machine, takes two touches to complete single vote, one on company "A" software, one on "B". If they match, good. if not..recount the paper! ATMs give a paper trail, why not these things, only they loop inside. It would show if someone starts rigging when the count is messed up. Just make a note of it, keep voting! If one set of numbers suddenly changes, the other machine takes note.
this has to do with sending a message to Washington. What every president wants is a mandate, what they get is short of that. The mistrust of Americans of their own govt. is at the polls. Both pop culture canidates want the war to go on. Funny, we declaired "Victory in Iraq!" Lies. More Lies. This is NOT OFFTOPIC: Our war of independence was started by only 3% of the citizens. 5% REALLY liked being British citizens. Outnumbered, they decided to take matters into their hands. Voting 3rd party lets Beltway bullies know how loyal we are to "Kodos and Krelor". Nader IS NOT 3RD PARTY! They abandoned him long ago. A decent 3rd party is Constitutional party, Michael Parutka(sp. n then some) Someone else google it, me lazy mode today. My feelings: We are paying 50% of our wealth in taxes, hidden or in-yo-face. We have a 5.85% tax due to a stadium being built, the infamous leaky-retractable-roof-prostar-baseball stadium. Bonus points if you can name it. Stadium was built, tax not repealed. Unless you buy in vast quantities, the fractional change adds up quick, calculated in millions on a billion economy for state. for an item that is built. we still pay. Sending a message that a war we cannot afford, with money we don't have, for reasons we are lied to, for results noone wants, at a time we need resources ourselves, when our borders are weak-even not there(FTAA). If we are all sheeple, we will all be fleeced. Chosing lesser of two evils is still chosing evils. Which would you like: Death by leathal Injection, death by gas, or 10% chance of escape? Without a mandate, presidents cannot act as if we don't matter, we should hold them accountable for their actions, but only if we don't comprimise.
That explains if you're a vet, you get overtime for regular pay, gee, how nice! I'd like to explain how I feel with a brick, sideways, in a not pleasant place, Bend over Mr. Bush..whats good for us is good FOR YOU!
I know it clogs servers, but PHBs are still fear mongering to charge $.01 for each sent email, idea being spammers will have to pay for the right(?) to abuse. I see it as punish the rest for a few, the few who will never care what happens to the innocent, they still make money. As a public service, the following domains have been banished, as well as 95% of Megs of spam a week: @2243.ewsifh398.com @mx31.blindu89.biz @o ptin1.clickformail.com
Before I banned them, I got at least 1 meg spam/3 days. That'll kill my inbox, and my provider was kind enough to remove all my old, dust covered emails I was saving so they could provide me this bright, shiny new spam! AGH! Wanted to KILL!
If servers would route this junk to an universal delete before it got to destination, the spammers would be out of business. There would have to be a distributed system for qualifying what was spam, and just not allowing the system to send it. Attatchments are another peeve of mine, with 30k virus attatched(Would you like to open this?). If I have never sent to the email in question, then I sould never see a Re: coming from them, filter! It would save gigs for provider alone! Just my thoughts, and you are entitled to them >:{
The system that off-shored and out sourced peoples jobs to death now faces a funny question. Who's gonna buy our cheap crap with no salary(Hrm, disposable income)? I see this as a harbinger as conglomerates try to punish us for not being better consumers. Oh, we already do that, it's just we don't contribute to their cause, therefore we are wrong. I think the model that a corporation has no resposibility to be a good citizen of the community is about to be challenged. I think it is in everyones best interest to be provided tools to succeed, not just rhetoric that sounds good in election speeches. Some of these tools: -Ability to incur non-confiscatory debt -Access to as much info as needed, Black Op or otherwise. To be sure, there will be abuses, but no government was installed to inflict harm on it's own people, and obscuring facts are just as bad. -A reasonable business climate, even protectionist. If need be. Since when do Americans(thump ya chest with machismo pride) have to work on average more hours than Grandpa did, both income earners, buying stuff on credit. Ack! Grandpa never needed credit, he went out, bought a house with CASH. A nice $5000 house now going for $50000. The house isn't 10X more house, the money is 1/10 what it used to be. Our economic system is partly to blame. Bush got only the concept right, not the effect, that our goods must be cheap enough for others to buy. Problem is, we don't make #### anymore. All gone, outsourced. Until Gov't is outsourced too, I see little in the way of change. A better way than being taxed to death is bartering, which, in it's electronic form, IS FILESHARING. -Incentives to succeed. Lower tax rates for SMALL business. Yes, I understand you can get LOANS, but, hey, if that is what it takes, small businesses would be sprouting all over! Most will fail in their first two years. A shame, there are too many innovative people out there being stifled because Industry wants things their way, the way things have always been. -Easier to apply for patents! Whoa! That could revolutionise alot! Being entitled to keep your intellectual property from being stolen by some bigger fish, i.e. Philo T. Pharnsworth, Tesla, yadda... -Competent ELECTED officials who will not cook numbers to say burger jobs are our manufacturing growth industry. Ack Nitwit! Nuff said. -Some system that links fates of all together, for we all are anyway at some level, but make it more meaningful at some personal level. Kind of like if I stub my toe, you say, "Ow!". It would make the idea of community much more tangible, we should be looking out for one another, as a Society gives us benefit for our sacrifices. We think police are a good investment, but what about not needing them because we did 'Y' instead? Prevention, not elimination. Solve and cure, not medicate.
Yep, got way too much time on my hands, and rather scared at what current generation thinks of as same old. Its because you have no point of reference, or reverence. Go ahead, flame away *donns asbestos suit, knowing it causes cancer anyway*
I know Io, Jupiters moon, gets tugged until molten. So, what are the rings/dust/moonies made of? If they are the same materials as Io, what keeps Io from becoming a ring? I don't think gravity tugs would do it alone. An impact with a comet into a good sized moon, now pulverized, would do it. So, the rings would be a mix of the comet/moon, probably very different. It would be neat to get more info. If ring could be sampled, bringing back two types of chunks, would argue strongly for impact. It would be a cheap way of sampling a comet? Also, the density of the rings would make ideal for mining? I know asteroid belt is out there, but would it be worth processing one rock instead of attacting alot of iron fragments with a magnet, with the plus of having a methane atmosphere for fuel a short trip away. Atmosphere skip/collect methane+oxides=rocket fuel. Maybe. Trying to think on a planetary scale here.
As I said, I don't have Gov't studies of psychotronic weaps, but would anyone admit it? And the signal beamed has to be language specific.
All I can give you is high tension power lines effect brain patterns, as well as 60 cps refresh rate of a TV/monitor. Subliminal 'buy ads' in movies. Hearing, not sound, is a modulation of the inner ear cochlea, doesn't matter how that is done. That shows effect at a distance. It doesn't take much more to modulate.
Any mods looking at thread will want to mod for offtopic unfortunately.:(
I don't have a handy linkie, but it is in research by Japanese, current tech'd in Army Psy/Black Ops. Look under that in Google. There are also weapons that incapacitate large crowds with microwaves, making it non-lethal. All sorts of Utility Belt stuff..
Before this gets labeled flamebait, this kind of intrusion really pisses me off. The problem with this technology is it not only tracks you, it will allow tracking of your activities. What you buy. Where you go. The ability to, for good or bad, compile a docier on your life. The only thing preventing this from happening before was the sheer logistics of it. Now that its real, I would like to wake people out of slumber. I mentioned the ability to do good. I might even call them selling point excuses: Tailored ads. Stand in front of a Coke machine with reader-"Mr. Jones, you like Cherry Coke! It's been a while since you've had one! Go ahead-we won't tell the Other cola co.!" This ad is beamed into your head(REAL technology-trial balloon tested in Japan!)-another distraction. If they are powerful enough readers, billboards changes to emphasize something in area based on your personal tastes. Use for convenience. Make it a feature before it becomes mandatory. For inventory/shipping control. Box 'a' has XXX going to YYY. You don't even need to scan for it directly.
Look folks, Walmart is forcing the use of tags on all their products. If the reader can read your RFID, it can read those too. Instant knowledge base of all the things you do, what you buy, or don't. Become a nonprofitable customer not well dealt with. Ack. The potential for abuse is way to great. I have heard of no laws about the use of RFID tags. Right now they are being used on Gillette razors, being very expensive and easily stolen. Problem is, these chips are being made by the billion. You tryin' to tell me they sell BILLIONS of razors? Bah! There are 'plastic watch' chips for military use, used in Haiti for the refugee crisis. Some tech specs-they are supposed to be burnt out at time of purchase, but they aren't, possible shielding on metal products(cans, etc.) Current readers have up to 20' read range. To deactivate them, microwave for a few secs, but set item on fire. Some are embedded in sandals. That would come in handy for tracking you. Unless you are an anti 1984ist(wow!, created a newspeak!), this should start to sound nasty. Someone with a scanner with devious intent could know all about you by scanning your curbed Hefty Cinchsack. Take an item, plant at a scene of a crime. *knock knock* "Mr. Jones, we have evidence that links you to...." Like I said, there are ZERO laws concerning the use of these buggers. No search warrants, just scanning. I try to be well informed, but biometrics seems better, because you know when they are being accessed, but still intrusive. With this junk(RFID), you will have the Law of Unintended consequences knocking on your door. There are way too many possible abuses to go into, thx for patiently reading rant.
I've sent power over a video signal wire, and they were happily coexistant.
What would be interesting is to know the frequencies they are using, because a transmitter(it is what it mimics) has an antenna radiating length associated with it.
At insanely fast speeds(gHz), it shortens the size of the antenna needed. Now, suppose you get a chip lead length(same chip) that is this wavelength-you broadcast signal to itself. Not good. My guess-they use a non-harmonic(multiple of that wavelength-and antenna length) to couple the signals at the speed they want. Tuning the chips to be EXACTLY that distance from each other will be a trick, but, as they have said, it is possible in theory. One problem is chips cross modulating each other, unless they run at exactly the same clock speed, and you would need to distribute it, as well as power, to each chip. Power can be distributed in the clock signal,(but it would have to be away from the signal lines), and filtered with diodes/capacitors. The chips themselves would act as mini microwave xmit-recievers. Neat!
Hacking one of these things will be difficult. Since you would want to run all chips off one system clock, it would be easier to analyse signals off monitors/internet cables, HD load waveforms, etc. than the chips themselves. There is another article about blocking wifi not cellphone use. Use same thing on the case. Not saying you couldn't detect/inject signals, but you would need to do some kinna hack job! You would start melting things before you succeed?
My fear is cell phones will somewhere use this, without antihack precautions(who cares, eh?), allowing all kinds of wackiness.
Dr. "derringdo" Who made me the geek I am today. The driving force behind Tom Baker was Doug Adams, no really, read the credits.(the scarf was the work of someone who didn't know the yarn ball could be cut at the end!) I liked Tom Baker as the wise cracking doctor with bravado in the face of sticky situations, "Adrik, I'll allow you to scream bloody chaos in a situation like this, but if I do, where would we be?" 'Scared Doctor?' "Petrified..."
"Ramana, you put a hole in my tardis controls..."
He saw things logically and whimsically at the same time. I fear the plot factory writers will ruin a childhood memory by trying to use formulas for success. It was his unorthadox approaches that make me a much better programmer(I turn maticies row-column because I self taught), and taught me not to apply standard approaches. He had pinache! Show me a SciFi character that has wit and intellect. Yeah, I'll miss him too.
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If it wasn't economical to fund the Russian ships(now the only resupply to ISS), this would not be happening. I'm the type to see the unintended consequences, but if this makes money for the Russians, it might be a good thing. As for exploration of space, I think we are already there-BUT! we lost a shuttle and crew due to old systems breaking down. I think it is time to upgrade the shuttle fleet. Years ago NASA spoke of a tile repair kit, and a 'space rescue ball'. (National Geographic had those, too lazy to look up) I think WE should be doing better, not letting the Russians paste us into a corner. And I will give Soyuz program Kudos. Anyone else want to take a poke at NASA? Are they even fogging a mirror, letting the Hubble, the most successful program they ever had, croak.
Somewhere else in thread, someone asks if this is a first step to a cure. Not wanting to sound alarmist, but I will anyway.
Suppose some not-so-nice people find a way to medicate the symptoms away(needing injections/pills/treatments) to make you functional, do you think they(he-who-would-profit) would create a cure? Look at diabetes. Nasty. If there was money in a cure, nobody would need insulin shots. Truth is, cutting down on sugar intake is a better preventative. This(BSE) however, is insidious. It takes years to manifest, and by that time, you could be done for. Another worst case-if you have a treatment for the condition, if you displease someone who wants you gone, all it takes is for them to MAKE the prion fold wrong(tampering with the treatment to cause it) instead of mitigate the bad folded ones, you would be none the wiser, and it wouldn't show for years. Not saying that Pharmas have ethical problems...*cough* I see it as a tool, and how this tool will be used will determine what the outcome is. And a short blurb about Alzheimers. It appears some of the people diagnosed with it actually have CJD(human equivalent). I'll leave it up to newsies/linker types to Google it. Oh, FYI-the prion 'dies' at around 1000 C. You'd kill any patient you try to 'clean'. Perhaps it resonates at a different frequency than the normal folded sequence. Detection(absorption) and irradication(more power) might be possible. Yeah, it creeps me way out. Appologies for bad grammar, spelling-it's late. Sweet dreams...
You electroplate stuff onto the electrodes, and even if they are "Royal" metals(platinum, gold, etc..), metals will still plate out on the electrodes.(in India, they have highly saturated Arsenic in the wells drilled, so this might not be so bad after all) But I suspect not for a while. Besides, who wants all the calcium ya can drink;) I would imagine you have to have a continual flow, or else the solutions will mix, maybe 1 gal/min? But if it sterilizes water borne diseases, it would be a Godsend to thirdworld nations...
only well heeled novels will get published on net? There was a hacker story sent ebook style, (sterling?), and his intent was not to make $, but make a statement abotu an overzealous prosecutor(charged $50,000 for a $13 reference that got hacked) I'm sorta worried that this will go the way of the printing press: only money talks-and everybody else will shut up. says something about web ads, they can't make something profitable either. I do see it from the starving artist side too, he does have to support himself.
its now Hasbro. They also bought out SSI the comp gamers, D&D/TSR, and some others. They are weak(Has.), for they only use "Wadsofmoneymade" games, and shelve the rest. This seems a huge departure on their part. MTG player contribs? Wow, wouldn't have guessed. Then again, if they are serious about keeping peoples interest, they should stop card yankin'(want this card to work again? need this one, that one's out of date, obsolete because...bullsh*t 'cuz you only wind up buying craploads of cards) If they want a setting, it seems kinda pricey for the payout, but they can use anybodys idea, pay the one person/group their money, and claim it's a wash, then use ALL the ideas submitted. I read the doc, seems like they could do that. Even if it didn't seem rip-off, I wonder what has happened to their talent pool? It's not like Phil foglio ain't doing anything else, but what about the D&D side? Isn't Gary Gygax crying in beer he got divorced, and she got all the good stuff? He could be pressed into service, but why not? It all smells like rip-off
I think it's a great way to launch, especially if monkey-boy MS can't dance for their rollout, if 2000 crashed(blue screen baby), and we can't have a "Dance on Bill's Grave" party. I do not trust any entity that has waaaaayyyyy to much centralised power, and i've been wondering about God in that dept.(wonder what upgrades HE gives....) I think a party is appropriate, not a pie in mozilla's face, or other wankin' PR sh*t, but it's a release. For you folks groaning and saying that it's not V3 of your fav game, humor from a little back check out the mozilla up front! True, it's not release 3 of Game-Quest-Gate-Raider-Zombie, but this is a jab at an OS as much as it is a product. Don't whine. Somebody took up the old line, "If somebody was gonna come up with something better, doncha think they would?"... Now...if you want to argue too much "Chrome features", ummm, can't argue that, oh gee, look at the time, gotta go.... check out
The person is right, you need to sink the heat away, but so do you with ANY cooling device, the heat dissipates indoors for a fridge, outdoors for AC. The idea is you wind up with the same amount of heat, just rearranged. Peltiers have a bimetallic junction, which acts as a diode of sorts. A diode will cool on one side, and re-emit the heat at the other. Small effect, but get enough surface area and you have something. The battery op coolers have these things. How they actually work is any dissimilar junction electron needs to overcome a barrier, and the energy it uses normally comes from the voltage applied. Instead, peltiers use the raw thermal energy at the junction gap(the - side) to go to the + side, picking up energy. When they recombine at + side, energy is released as heat. Big drawback is most junctions don't take kindly to being heated on either side, so you need to sink them quick. This seems to be way more efficient, either not allowing an electron to 'get lucky' and jump over an impurity, or has to continually pick up more thermal energy on the way over, or has a ridiculously efficient manufacture process at nanoscale, and can afford to get just the right material thickness(1-10nM) my 2c adjusted for inflation...
If you take your average LED, and compare it to the output of a 500W spotlight, no comparison. The LED is thousands of times weaker(lightwise), so you would need thousands of them to light up a point, not to mention collumnating them(hit the same spots for the whole area). The only advantage you would get is heat dissipated, because 1000's of the buggers would chew, oh say, hundreds of watts anyway. Someone made a projector from lasers and mirror systems, but they are again, hundreds of times brighter, and can be directly modulated, but the 'pictures' are 'liney', scanlines showing everywhere. Unless you have a screen that amplifies the light, the LED idea just doesn't work.:( http://www.nofs.navy.mil/about_NOFS/staff/cbl/ LC_H andbook_v11.html Navy specs on light sources, look halfway down
I mean if you tap the incoming line to your reciever, what's the difference? Please, before I get flambe'd, I know the obstacles, but suppose a janitor is your buddy, lets you do some work "after work", so you can take it home with you. One p2p later, at least one day later, 100s of copies are floating. I think any system is only as good as weakest link, and any system that cannot be taken advantage of is virtually useless!
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I have been away from /. for over three years for this very reasons-too many cointelpros clogging up the echo chamber. I'm sick to death of you all! You know exactly who I'm fingering, and I expect my excellent karma to go to crap. Go to Hell!
On the other hand, the poster is exactly right, but think of what YOU are expecting of a candidate: media support by Rupert Murdoc, one who is entirely in league with control systems. A "Tough" stance on "dem arabs". Dotters, if someone mistrated you as henously as we have their countries, with the hubris we have, THEY would be smashed to bits! Trivia(?): Did you know we went to war with England over a centralized bank note system? Googled:"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, 1802
You want another depression? Go wiki it. Hyperinflation: caused by central banking systems inflating monetary systems. We have already experienced higher debt rates than the depression, due to the fact our money comes with inflation built in! Precious metals are taking flight against the dollar, and you want to argue who looks best in a friggin' flight suit???
You want continual war(McCain says 100 years) that drives debt up the wall??? War for what??? The Pentagon already "lost" over $4 trillion, an ammount that could set every American for life.
ALL of you are rearranging the deckchairs!! What do you THINK caused all the calamity??? Some guy in a cave? How are we supposed to become more safe by giving up all our liberties?? Oh, I know! "They hate us because of our freedoms[, so if we kill all civil liberties, they wont hate us anymore!]" Someone forgot the chapter on "Those who give up essential liberty for security deserve neither!"-Benjamin Franklin
As if anyone cares, most people cant tell who the Vice Pres is(Dick-"I live in Dubai!"-Cheney).
All I can tell is you want another corporate bought-off candidate! "Electable"
This is the last pearl I dare give the swine
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
-Frederick Douglass.
Double books work for accounting, why not double accounting for machines?
Have 2 companies running software out of same machine, takes two touches to complete single vote, one on company "A" software, one on "B". If they match, good. if not..recount the paper! ATMs give a paper trail, why not these things, only they loop inside. It would show if someone starts rigging when the count is messed up. Just make a note of it, keep voting! If one set of numbers suddenly changes, the other machine takes note.
Reminds me of, "If I ask the other door...."
this has to do with sending a message to Washington.
What every president wants is a mandate, what they get is short of that. The mistrust of Americans of their own govt. is at the polls.
Both pop culture canidates want the war to go on. Funny, we declaired "Victory in Iraq!" Lies. More Lies.
This is NOT OFFTOPIC: Our war of independence was started by only 3% of the citizens. 5% REALLY liked being British citizens. Outnumbered, they decided to take matters into their hands.
Voting 3rd party lets Beltway bullies know how loyal we are to "Kodos and Krelor". Nader IS NOT 3RD PARTY! They abandoned him long ago.
A decent 3rd party is Constitutional party, Michael Parutka(sp. n then some) Someone else google it, me lazy mode today.
My feelings: We are paying 50% of our wealth in taxes, hidden or in-yo-face. We have a 5.85% tax due to a stadium being built, the infamous leaky-retractable-roof-prostar-baseball stadium. Bonus points if you can name it. Stadium was built, tax not repealed. Unless you buy in vast quantities, the fractional change adds up quick, calculated in millions on a billion economy for state. for an item that is built. we still pay.
Sending a message that a war we cannot afford, with money we don't have, for reasons we are lied to, for results noone wants, at a time we need resources ourselves, when our borders are weak-even not there(FTAA).
If we are all sheeple, we will all be fleeced. Chosing lesser of two evils is still chosing evils. Which would you like: Death by leathal Injection, death by gas, or 10% chance of escape?
Without a mandate, presidents cannot act as if we don't matter, we should hold them accountable for their actions, but only if we don't comprimise.
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That explains if you're a vet, you get overtime for regular pay, gee, how nice!
I'd like to explain how I feel with a brick, sideways, in a not pleasant place, Bend over Mr. Bush..whats good for us is good FOR YOU!
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Washington Post, answers critics
Might be redundant cache
Dems want aditing Where have we heard this b4?Hmmmm...
F-L-O-R-I-DeU-H wants papertrail
more proof of malfeasance(previous diebold owners running away with elections when behind in polls, etc...) :(
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Halfway down, see ctrl-f rigging
convicted fellons working for them!
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Backdoor vote rigging?
That is a starter list, I'll post more later, just mod the parent up(this one!)
I know it clogs servers, but PHBs are still fear mongering to charge $.01 for each sent email, idea being spammers will have to pay for the right(?) to abuse. I see it as punish the rest for a few, the few who will never care what happens to the innocent, they still make money.o ptin1.clickformail.com
As a public service, the following domains have been banished, as well as 95% of Megs of spam a week:
@2243.ewsifh398.com
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Before I banned them, I got at least 1 meg spam/3 days. That'll kill my inbox, and my provider was kind enough to remove all my old, dust covered emails I was saving so they could provide me this bright, shiny new spam! AGH! Wanted to KILL!
If servers would route this junk to an universal delete before it got to destination, the spammers would be out of business. There would have to be a distributed system for qualifying what was spam, and just not allowing the system to send it. Attatchments are another peeve of mine, with 30k virus attatched(Would you like to open this?). If I have never sent to the email in question, then I sould never see a Re: coming from them, filter! It would save gigs for provider alone!
Just my thoughts, and you are entitled to them >:{
I think it is just desserts. or just deserts.
The system that off-shored and out sourced peoples jobs to death now faces a funny question. Who's gonna buy our cheap crap with no salary(Hrm, disposable income)?
I see this as a harbinger as conglomerates try to punish us for not being better consumers. Oh, we already do that, it's just we don't contribute to their cause, therefore we are wrong.
I think the model that a corporation has no resposibility to be a good citizen of the community is about to be challenged. I think it is in everyones best interest to be provided tools to succeed, not just rhetoric that sounds good in election speeches. Some of these tools:
-Ability to incur non-confiscatory debt
-Access to as much info as needed, Black Op or otherwise. To be sure, there will be abuses, but no government was installed to inflict harm on it's own people, and obscuring facts are just as bad.
-A reasonable business climate, even protectionist. If need be. Since when do Americans(thump ya chest with machismo pride) have to work on average more hours than Grandpa did, both income earners, buying stuff on credit. Ack! Grandpa never needed credit, he went out, bought a house with CASH. A nice $5000 house now going for $50000. The house isn't 10X more house, the money is 1/10 what it used to be. Our economic system is partly to blame. Bush got only the concept right, not the effect, that our goods must be cheap enough for others to buy. Problem is, we don't make #### anymore. All gone, outsourced. Until Gov't is outsourced too, I see little in the way of change. A better way than being taxed to death is bartering, which, in it's electronic form, IS FILESHARING.
-Incentives to succeed. Lower tax rates for SMALL business. Yes, I understand you can get LOANS, but, hey, if that is what it takes, small businesses would be sprouting all over! Most will fail in their first two years. A shame, there are too many innovative people out there being stifled because Industry wants things their way, the way things have always been.
-Easier to apply for patents! Whoa! That could revolutionise alot! Being entitled to keep your intellectual property from being stolen by some bigger fish, i.e. Philo T. Pharnsworth, Tesla, yadda...
-Competent ELECTED officials who will not cook numbers to say burger jobs are our manufacturing growth industry. Ack Nitwit! Nuff said.
-Some system that links fates of all together, for we all are anyway at some level, but make it more meaningful at some personal level. Kind of like if I stub my toe, you say, "Ow!". It would make the idea of community much more tangible, we should be looking out for one another, as a Society gives us benefit for our sacrifices. We think police are a good investment, but what about not needing them because we did 'Y' instead? Prevention, not elimination. Solve and cure, not medicate.
Yep, got way too much time on my hands, and rather scared at what current generation thinks of as same old. Its because you have no point of reference, or reverence. Go ahead, flame away *donns asbestos suit, knowing it causes cancer anyway*
I know Io, Jupiters moon, gets tugged until molten. So, what are the rings/dust/moonies made of? If they are the same materials as Io, what keeps Io from becoming a ring?
I don't think gravity tugs would do it alone. An impact with a comet into a good sized moon, now pulverized, would do it. So, the rings would be a mix of the comet/moon, probably very different. It would be neat to get more info. If ring could be sampled, bringing back two types of chunks, would argue strongly for impact. It would be a cheap way of sampling a comet?
Also, the density of the rings would make ideal for mining? I know asteroid belt is out there, but would it be worth processing one rock instead of attacting alot of iron fragments with a magnet, with the plus of having a methane atmosphere for fuel a short trip away. Atmosphere skip/collect methane+oxides=rocket fuel. Maybe. Trying to think on a planetary scale here.
Gotta give Adams his due!
Now if we could just decode the ultimate QUESTION!
As I said, I don't have Gov't studies of psychotronic weaps, but would anyone admit it? And the signal beamed has to be language specific.
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All I can give you is high tension power lines effect brain patterns, as well as 60 cps refresh rate of a TV/monitor. Subliminal 'buy ads' in movies. Hearing, not sound, is a modulation of the inner ear cochlea, doesn't matter how that is done. That shows effect at a distance. It doesn't take much more to modulate.
Any mods looking at thread will want to mod for offtopic unfortunately.
And neither does a MICROWAVE burrito. So what's the point?
I don't have a handy linkie, but it is in research by Japanese, current tech'd in Army Psy/Black Ops. Look under that in Google. There are also weapons that incapacitate large crowds with microwaves, making it non-lethal. All sorts of Utility Belt stuff..
Before this gets labeled flamebait, this kind of intrusion really pisses me off.
The problem with this technology is it not only tracks you, it will allow tracking of your activities. What you buy. Where you go. The ability to, for good or bad, compile a docier on your life.
The only thing preventing this from happening before was the sheer logistics of it. Now that its real, I would like to wake people out of slumber.
I mentioned the ability to do good. I might even call them selling point excuses:
Tailored ads. Stand in front of a Coke machine with reader-"Mr. Jones, you like Cherry Coke! It's been a while since you've had one! Go ahead-we won't tell the Other cola co.!" This ad is beamed into your head(REAL technology-trial balloon tested in Japan!)-another distraction. If they are powerful enough readers, billboards changes to emphasize something in area based on your personal tastes.
Use for convenience. Make it a feature before it becomes mandatory.
For inventory/shipping control. Box 'a' has XXX going to YYY. You don't even need to scan for it directly.
Look folks, Walmart is forcing the use of tags on all their products. If the reader can read your RFID, it can read those too. Instant knowledge base of all the things you do, what you buy, or don't. Become a nonprofitable customer not well dealt with. Ack.
The potential for abuse is way to great. I have heard of no laws about the use of RFID tags. Right now they are being used on Gillette razors, being very expensive and easily stolen. Problem is, these chips are being made by the billion. You tryin' to tell me they sell BILLIONS of razors? Bah! There are 'plastic watch' chips for military use, used in Haiti for the refugee crisis.
Some tech specs-they are supposed to be burnt out at time of purchase, but they aren't, possible shielding on metal products(cans, etc.) Current readers have up to 20' read range. To deactivate them, microwave for a few secs, but set item on fire. Some are embedded in sandals. That would come in handy for tracking you. Unless you are an anti 1984ist(wow!, created a newspeak!), this should start to sound nasty. Someone with a scanner with devious intent could know all about you by scanning your curbed Hefty Cinchsack. Take an item, plant at a scene of a crime. *knock knock* "Mr. Jones, we have evidence that links you to...."
Like I said, there are ZERO laws concerning the use of these buggers. No search warrants, just scanning.
I try to be well informed, but biometrics seems better, because you know when they are being accessed, but still intrusive. With this junk(RFID), you will have the Law of Unintended consequences knocking on your door.
There are way too many possible abuses to go into, thx for patiently reading rant.
I've sent power over a video signal wire, and they were happily coexistant.
What would be interesting is to know the frequencies they are using, because a transmitter(it is what it mimics) has an antenna radiating length associated with it.
At insanely fast speeds(gHz), it shortens the size of the antenna needed. Now, suppose you get a chip lead length(same chip) that is this wavelength-you broadcast signal to itself. Not good. My guess-they use a non-harmonic(multiple of that wavelength-and antenna length) to couple the signals at the speed they want. Tuning the chips to be EXACTLY that distance from each other will be a trick, but, as they have said, it is possible in theory. One problem is chips cross modulating each other, unless they run at exactly the same clock speed, and you would need to distribute it, as well as power, to each chip. Power can be distributed in the clock signal,(but it would have to be away from the signal lines), and filtered with diodes/capacitors. The chips themselves would act as mini microwave xmit-recievers. Neat!
Hacking one of these things will be difficult. Since you would want to run all chips off one system clock, it would be easier to analyse signals off monitors/internet cables, HD load waveforms, etc. than the chips themselves. There is another article about blocking wifi not cellphone use. Use same thing on the case. Not saying you couldn't detect/inject signals, but you would need to do some kinna hack job! You would start melting things before you succeed?
My fear is cell phones will somewhere use this, without antihack precautions(who cares, eh?), allowing all kinds of wackiness.
Dr. "derringdo" Who made me the geek I am today. The driving force behind Tom Baker was Doug Adams, no really, read the credits.(the scarf was the work of someone who didn't know the yarn ball could be cut at the end!)
I liked Tom Baker as the wise cracking doctor with bravado in the face of sticky situations, "Adrik, I'll allow you to scream bloody chaos in a situation like this, but if I do, where would we be?"
'Scared Doctor?'
"Petrified..."
"Ramana, you put a hole in my tardis controls..."
He saw things logically and whimsically at the same time. I fear the plot factory writers will ruin a childhood memory by trying to use formulas for success. It was his unorthadox approaches that make me a much better programmer(I turn maticies row-column because I self taught), and taught me not to apply standard approaches. He had pinache! Show me a SciFi character that has wit and intellect.
Yeah, I'll miss him too.
If it wasn't economical to fund the Russian ships(now the only resupply to ISS), this would not be happening. I'm the type to see the unintended consequences, but if this makes money for the Russians, it might be a good thing. As for exploration of space, I think we are already there-BUT! we lost a shuttle and crew due to old systems breaking down. I think it is time to upgrade the shuttle fleet. Years ago NASA spoke of a tile repair kit, and a 'space rescue ball'. (National Geographic had those, too lazy to look up) I think WE should be doing better, not letting the Russians paste us into a corner. And I will give Soyuz program Kudos.
Anyone else want to take a poke at NASA? Are they even fogging a mirror, letting the Hubble, the most successful program they ever had, croak.
Somewhere else in thread, someone asks if this is a first step to a cure. Not wanting to sound alarmist, but I will anyway.
Suppose some not-so-nice people find a way to medicate the symptoms away(needing injections/pills/treatments) to make you functional, do you think they(he-who-would-profit) would create a cure? Look at diabetes. Nasty. If there was money in a cure, nobody would need insulin shots. Truth is, cutting down on sugar intake is a better preventative.
This(BSE) however, is insidious. It takes years to manifest, and by that time, you could be done for. Another worst case-if you have a treatment for the condition, if you displease someone who wants you gone, all it takes is for them to MAKE the prion fold wrong(tampering with the treatment to cause it) instead of mitigate the bad folded ones, you would be none the wiser, and it wouldn't show for years. Not saying that Pharmas have ethical problems...*cough*
I see it as a tool, and how this tool will be used will determine what the outcome is.
And a short blurb about Alzheimers. It appears some of the people diagnosed with it actually have CJD(human equivalent). I'll leave it up to newsies/linker types to Google it.
Oh, FYI-the prion 'dies' at around 1000 C. You'd kill any patient you try to 'clean'. Perhaps it resonates at a different frequency than the normal folded sequence. Detection(absorption) and irradication(more power) might be possible.
Yeah, it creeps me way out. Appologies for bad grammar, spelling-it's late. Sweet dreams...
You electroplate stuff onto the electrodes, and even if they are "Royal" metals(platinum, gold, etc..), metals will still plate out on the electrodes.(in India, they have highly saturated Arsenic in the wells drilled, so this might not be so bad after all) ;)
But I suspect not for a while. Besides, who wants all the calcium ya can drink
I would imagine you have to have a continual flow, or else the solutions will mix, maybe 1 gal/min?
But if it sterilizes water borne diseases, it would be a Godsend to thirdworld nations...
only well heeled novels will get published on net?
There was a hacker story sent ebook style, (sterling?), and his intent was not to make $, but make a statement abotu an overzealous prosecutor(charged $50,000 for a $13 reference that got hacked)
I'm sorta worried that this will go the way of the printing press: only money talks-and everybody else will shut up.
says something about web ads, they can't make something profitable either.
I do see it from the starving artist side too, he does have to support himself.
its now Hasbro. They also bought out SSI the comp gamers, D&D/TSR, and some others.
They are weak(Has.), for they only use "Wadsofmoneymade" games, and shelve the rest. This seems a huge departure on their part. MTG player contribs? Wow, wouldn't have guessed. Then again, if they are serious about keeping peoples interest, they should stop card yankin'(want this card to work again? need this one, that one's out of date, obsolete because...bullsh*t 'cuz you only wind up buying craploads of cards)
If they want a setting, it seems kinda pricey for the payout, but they can use anybodys idea, pay the one person/group their money, and claim it's a wash, then use ALL the ideas submitted. I read the doc, seems like they could do that.
Even if it didn't seem rip-off, I wonder what has happened to their talent pool? It's not like Phil foglio ain't doing anything else, but what about the D&D side? Isn't Gary Gygax crying in beer he got divorced, and she got all the good stuff? He could be pressed into service, but why not?
It all smells like rip-off
I think it's a great way to launch, especially if monkey-boy MS can't dance for their rollout, if 2000 crashed(blue screen baby), and we can't have a "Dance on Bill's Grave" party.
I do not trust any entity that has waaaaayyyyy to much centralised power, and i've been wondering about God in that dept.(wonder what upgrades HE gives....)
I think a party is appropriate, not a pie in mozilla's face, or other wankin' PR sh*t, but it's a release.
For you folks groaning and saying that it's not V3 of your fav game, humor from a little back
check out the mozilla up front!
True, it's not release 3 of Game-Quest-Gate-Raider-Zombie, but this is a jab at an OS as much as it is a product. Don't whine. Somebody took up the old line, "If somebody was gonna come up with something better, doncha think they would?"...
Now...if you want to argue too much "Chrome features", ummm, can't argue that, oh gee, look at the time, gotta go....
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The person is right, you need to sink the heat away, but so do you with ANY cooling device, the heat dissipates indoors for a fridge, outdoors for AC.
The idea is you wind up with the same amount of heat, just rearranged. Peltiers have a bimetallic junction, which acts as a diode of sorts. A diode will cool on one side, and re-emit the heat at the other. Small effect, but get enough surface area and you have something. The battery op coolers have these things. How they actually work is any dissimilar junction electron needs to overcome a barrier, and the energy it uses normally comes from the voltage applied. Instead, peltiers use the raw thermal energy at the junction gap(the - side) to go to the + side, picking up energy. When they recombine at + side, energy is released as heat.
Big drawback is most junctions don't take kindly to being heated on either side, so you need to sink them quick.
This seems to be way more efficient, either not allowing an electron to 'get lucky' and jump over an impurity, or has to continually pick up more thermal energy on the way over, or has a ridiculously efficient manufacture process at nanoscale, and can afford to get just the right material thickness(1-10nM)
my 2c adjusted for inflation...
If you take your average LED, and compare it to the output of a 500W spotlight, no comparison. The LED is thousands of times weaker(lightwise), so you would need thousands of them to light up a point, not to mention collumnating them(hit the same spots for the whole area). :(/ LC_H andbook_v11.html
The only advantage you would get is heat dissipated, because 1000's of the buggers would chew, oh say, hundreds of watts anyway.
Someone made a projector from lasers and mirror systems, but they are again, hundreds of times brighter, and can be directly modulated, but the 'pictures' are 'liney', scanlines showing everywhere. Unless you have a screen that amplifies the light, the LED idea just doesn't work.
http://www.nofs.navy.mil/about_NOFS/staff/cbl
Navy specs on light sources, look halfway down
I mean if you tap the incoming line to your reciever, what's the difference?
Please, before I get flambe'd, I know the obstacles, but suppose a janitor is your buddy, lets you do some work "after work", so you can take it home with you. One p2p later, at least one day later, 100s of copies are floating.
I think any system is only as good as weakest link, and any system that cannot be taken advantage of is virtually useless!