Look at how they censor pictures of breasts from the whole site to pander to American "morals", when most of the world has no problem with nudity.

A blacklist call app that downloads daily a new blacklist number list. If a marketing call get's through, I can manually blacklist and it reports back, if 10 or more of this same number comes in from users, it's added to the global blacklist.

It would decimate the scumbag telemarketing industry within a year.

Part of the merger should be the requirement that franchise fees across the country need to be made illegal. They are only used to limit competition in a legal form.

The franchise agreement in my town states that no other cable company can sell services here. That's wrong.

That a similar setup pointed at the exact location can detect. guess what, that doesn't work well even here on the planet. Point to Point Dish based directed communication is a bitch to get working in insanely small distances like only 10 miles. So we shoot a signal at a single cluster, did we do it for years on end? nope. so nobody will hear anything.

What you have to do is a wide insane power broadcast to cover the entire sky. Broadcast 24/7 for 10 years. That way not only do you have information you sent, but we even encode doppler information about our planet and sun.

Yes for 10 years, 100 years would be better. Because you dont know when someone will be aiming an insane gain antenna in our direction.

It just goes to prove no one is irreplaceable; not even Jobs.

My key points on the subject are:

1. A love of the art and the job.

2. An eagerness to learn and try new things.

3. The willingness to risk your job to do "the right thing" on a project.

4. Acceptance that others in the business (not just the team) have valuable inputs that need to be respected.

5. Experience. Years and years of in-the-trenches experience with a variety of technologies and techniques.

6. (And perhaps most importantly) A background in the history of computing. The realization that "with a computer" or "on the web" does not make something "new" and patent-worthy.

We already are surpassing radio to become something that is undetectable in space. spread spectrum and low power communications is already common place in the Ham Radio community. with 2.5 Watts I can talk to 30 people around the globe using PSK31 or Wspr. My signal will not be detectable past the moon even on the best radio equipment made. High power broadcasting is a thing of the past and will rapidly disappear. Some of these new technologies will make communicating with our own space probes easier, but hellishly harder to detect as power levels can be reduced.

A very advanced species will not be broadcasting at 200,000,000,000 watts with AM modulation or CW... what can be detected at light year or more distances. they will be using things that are far more efficient and will not be detectable. Honestly the whole SETI project is not looking for ET's TV stations or regular communications, it's looking for an intentional ultra high power beacon that was sent for the only purpose of saying "WE ARE HERE" which even reduces the chances of it being successful even more.

For SETI to detect a signal from Alpha Centauri. IT would have to be 10,000X stronger than any transmission ever sent from earth and on a constant time year after year after year so that it can be detected.

First, us humans prefer killing each other to science. This is a proven fact.
Second, humanity did not go from Horses to Nukes, a very very small percent of the population did it, those geniuses have everyone else standing on their coat-tails.

The next leap will be by a very small group that is significantly more enlightened than the rest of the 99.95% of the population. If those people are benevolent, then everyone enjoys the fruits. If they are not....... Well, things can go very differently.

Currently with how education is going, the general population is becoming more uneducated every year. WE do not glorify learning, but instead glorify morons that can carry a ball, or can sing a tune. And we Vilify in society those that do love learning and are very smart.

Honestly Humanity is a joke, almost a cancer. And if an advanced civilization stumbled across us, they would probably wipe us out to make the rest of the universe safer. We as a species love to hate others, we love murder, war, and control. WE thrive on hating those that are different or think or worship different.

Now if only Bell Media/CTV here in Canada would do the same. They are the ONLY family of websites I know of that won't work with the Linux versions of Flash, complaining that you need an update because they check for the WINDOWS version numbers.

I just installed glibc updates for Debian, so I presume the fix has been pushed.

The media inciting fear and panic over nothing?

That never happens.

"Terrorism Threat Levels", anyone?

I'm not an American, so I don't give a shit about your standards.

This is the secret service. They want to shoot drones with a 50mm Howitzer that uses 00 buckshot rounds.

And you've never heard of private chat clients? Peer-to-peer communications? Encrypted emails?

You don't have to talk about the personal details of your life on Crackbook where there is a record.

Your whole argument is premised on the theory that everything is recorded and tracked, regardless of encryption, regardless of HTTPS, regardless of SSL. All I'm saying is that you should be required to log in to a server to make public comments or to send messages to an individual. That's not to say you need to use your real name for the login; only that you be identified and that identity available to the server administrators in case they get subpoenaed.

My beef is with people who hide behind anonymity to commit abuses and atrocities, such as bullying people into suicide, spreading terrorist propaganda, sharing child porn, racist propaganda, and so on. People who know they aren't anonymous tend to think twice about what they're saying and posting -- and so they should, because we don't have the "stick" of a punch in the nose on the internet.