The more niche or nuanced you are, the greater the chance that piracy will be a problem,
Actually I think that is just a psychological effect. It may be the case that the smaller your turnover the more likely you are to look at the "lost sales" as a problem but the reality is just as for the bigger business - the "lost sales" would just translate into "no sales" and "lost publicity" if piracy were impossible.
Most expensive drones have software in them to automatically (and faster then a human ever could) correct for wind, extra weight, loss of a propeller, that kind of thing using GPS. I would assume that the ones Google would be using are even smarter then that. Remember, they did buy that robot company with that really creepy dog thing not all that long ago. Maybe this is why.
Correcting for wind is one thing - having anough power to overcome the wind is quite another. Recently a drone flew away in the UK because it passed through a wind shear layer and had insufficent power to exceed the wind velocity.
As a simpole rule of thumb - if its big enough to overcome the wind it's way too big to be a cheap delivery mechanism that can safely be flown automatically in the vicinity of people.
Remember Google also bought a D wave which is provably incapable of working as advertised.
Remember all the big companies that invested in cold fusion.
Yet they are human like the rest of us. Even with all the training in the world, it comes down to a split second, often adrenaline fueled reaction, at a peak moment of the most basic fight or flight situation, and you are upset because they perhaps erred slightly onto the side of protecting their own hide?
Apparently that now includes protecting themselves against the camera crew that was filming their exploits!
Actually it would make a lot more sense to go after guns first. If the US were to getr out from the delusion that carrying a gun in any way improves your personal safety then you could maybe have sensible gun control (not outlawing guns for hunting target shooting etc) and an unarmed police force. Then the question of body armour would be moot.
Quantum Computers wouldn't make encryption obsolete.
All they could do is to solve a certain class of "hard" problems on which some existing public key algorithms are based.
Encryption would then have to switch to a different class of hard problems or to Quantum Encryption (which itself is nearer to market than the kind of Quantum Computer that can break RSA.)
Furthermore it is not clear in what sense the D wave machine is a quantum computer - since it isn't designed to run Shor's Algorithm and the things it does do can be done faster by better algorithms on a classical machine.
I don't get it - are you suggesting that democracy radicalises people?
However I don't think our (the west's) policies in the middle east have been about promoting democracy until very recently (and then very superficially).
Unfortunately when you have a long track record of doing bad stuff and then you suddenly introduce a system of voting (based on your own practice) it is unlikely that you will get the outcome you are looking for. Any system of democracy has to be adapted to the lie of the land in terms of ethnic groups, distribution of wealth etc etc.
Interesting, because I thought it was the British and French colonialists who did most/all of the dividing in Northern-Africa and the Middle East, yet the US appears to be the prime target.
The people living in the middle east may not perceive the US, UK and France to be in any way separate - and certainly the US has taken a lead in Western foreign policy since WW2.
most of the reasons have ZERO to do with us killing anyone. They include:
1. Supporting Indonesian nations maintaining democracy and repelling attempts to instill Sharia
2. Supporting free speech and open ideas and cartoon depictions of religious figures in Europe
3. Installing a military base on holy land WE WERE INVITED TO by the government there
These are not the reasons - they are the publicity material used by the extremists to attract people to their cause.
To find the reasons you have to look further back in history.
The reasons lie in the foolishness of allowing the foundation of two new religiously defined states in the period immediately after the second world war. (and yes I think Israel and Pakistan were equally bad ideas). This normalised the idea of a religious state at a time when we should have been pushing the idea of secular states with religious toleration.
Actually the mainstream of Arab nationalism remained secular for a long time. Remember Yasser Arafat's wife was a Christian and Saddam Hussein's government was multi-faith!
Years of frustration and failed attempts to create a palestinian state eventually delivered a siginificant number of people into the camp of the fanatics.
Where's the hypocrisy? People who think we breed terrorists through policy haven't read the list of transgressions these terrorists are supposedly punishing us for.
Believing that our policies have created these problems (as I do) ins't the same as endorsing any particular list - especially not one that emanates from people like ISIS themselves.
Is this yet another suggestion that groups like ISIS/ISIL are extremists born of American policy and we have only ourselves to blame for their barbarism? Because I'm especially tired of that masochistic nonsense....
Sorry - but it isn't nonsense. It is simply the realisation that it is pointless to continue to blame others for your problems.
Instead you need to concentrate on the things that you could do differently to make things better. It si simply what Mr Spock would have called "logical".
None of which means that the beliefs and behaviour of people like ISIS aren't distasteful in the extreme - it's just that you can't DO anything directly about that whereas you CAN avoid the kind of policies that radicalise people.
To which one could add the fact that UK police do NOT routinely carry firearms - and thus have to learn to deal with threatening situations without the means to deploy ultimate force.
Add to that the fact that (perhaps surprisingly) the police themselves have consistently opposed the introduction of firearms whenever the question has been raised.
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Actually I think that is just a psychological effect. It may be the case that the smaller your turnover the more likely you are to look at the "lost sales" as a problem but the reality is just as for the bigger business - the "lost sales" would just translate into "no sales" and "lost publicity" if piracy were impossible.
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Most expensive drones have software in them to automatically (and faster then a human ever could) correct for wind, extra weight, loss of a propeller, that kind of thing using GPS. I would assume that the ones Google would be using are even smarter then that. Remember, they did buy that robot company with that really creepy dog thing not all that long ago. Maybe this is why.
Correcting for wind is one thing - having anough power to overcome the wind is quite another. Recently a drone flew away in the UK because it passed through a wind shear layer and had insufficent power to exceed the wind velocity.
As a simpole rule of thumb - if its big enough to overcome the wind it's way too big to be a cheap delivery mechanism that can safely be flown automatically in the vicinity of people.
Remember Google also bought a D wave which is provably incapable of working as advertised.
Remember all the big companies that invested in cold fusion.
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Apparently that now includes protecting themselves against the camera crew that was filming their exploits!
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/cops-tv-show-crew-member-killed-by-friendl y-fire-20140828-109af6.html
The fact is that us police gun culture is out of control - it is not the individual's fault - it is a systemic problems.
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The pirate bay - being based in Sweden - does not have to respond to notices issued under a US law.
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Actually it would make a lot more sense to go after guns first. If the US were to getr out from the delusion that carrying a gun in any way improves your personal safety then you could maybe have sensible gun control (not outlawing guns for hunting target shooting etc) and an unarmed police force. Then the question of body armour would be moot.
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Given the trigger happy US police it seems that "entering the US" is equivalent to "putting themselves in a position where they expect to be shot".
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All they could do is to solve a certain class of "hard" problems on which some existing public key algorithms are based.
Encryption would then have to switch to a different class of hard problems or to Quantum Encryption (which itself is nearer to market than the kind of Quantum Computer that can break RSA.)
Furthermore it is not clear in what sense the D wave machine is a quantum computer - since it isn't designed to run Shor's Algorithm and the things it does do can be done faster by better algorithms on a classical machine.
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The researchers looked at the data again and found that the correlation with zero tolerance was a coincidence.
THe real reason for falling crime was the removal of lead from petrol.
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Which they can't do on the students own computers accessing the WiFi
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However I don't think our (the west's) policies in the middle east have been about promoting democracy until very recently (and then very superficially).
Unfortunately when you have a long track record of doing bad stuff and then you suddenly introduce a system of voting (based on your own practice) it is unlikely that you will get the outcome you are looking for. Any system of democracy has to be adapted to the lie of the land in terms of ethnic groups, distribution of wealth etc etc.
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(Or Disney?)
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Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
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The people living in the middle east may not perceive the US, UK and France to be in any way separate - and certainly the US has taken a lead in Western foreign policy since WW2.
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1. Supporting Indonesian nations maintaining democracy and repelling attempts to instill Sharia
2. Supporting free speech and open ideas and cartoon depictions of religious figures in Europe
3. Installing a military base on holy land WE WERE INVITED TO by the government there
These are not the reasons - they are the publicity material used by the extremists to attract people to their cause.
To find the reasons you have to look further back in history.
The reasons lie in the foolishness of allowing the foundation of two new religiously defined states in the period immediately after the second world war. (and yes I think Israel and Pakistan were equally bad ideas). This normalised the idea of a religious state at a time when we should have been pushing the idea of secular states with religious toleration.
Actually the mainstream of Arab nationalism remained secular for a long time. Remember Yasser Arafat's wife was a Christian and Saddam Hussein's government was multi-faith!
Years of frustration and failed attempts to create a palestinian state eventually delivered a siginificant number of people into the camp of the fanatics.
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Believing that our policies have created these problems (as I do) ins't the same as endorsing any particular list - especially not one that emanates from people like ISIS themselves.
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Sorry - but it isn't nonsense. It is simply the realisation that it is pointless to continue to blame others for your problems.
Instead you need to concentrate on the things that you could do differently to make things better. It si simply what Mr Spock would have called "logical".
None of which means that the beliefs and behaviour of people like ISIS aren't distasteful in the extreme - it's just that you can't DO anything directly about that whereas you CAN avoid the kind of policies that radicalise people.
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No.
The only significant threat that America faces is itself.
None of these groups has the capability to inflict damage to America beyond what America constantly does to itself.
For example, as an American you are far more likely to be killed by an American policeman than by ISIS.
However all of this activity is noise on the general run of accidental death, let alone health related avoidable death.
A threat to America would be something capable of destroying American civil society and the rule of law.
The erosion of rights and liberties in response to so-called threats is in itself a far bigger threat.
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Don't listen to what they say, look at what they do.
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Add to that the fact that (perhaps surprisingly) the police themselves have consistently opposed the introduction of firearms whenever the question has been raised.
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