ICANN should just reserve a TLD or two for private networks similar to how some IP ranges were reserved in RFC1918. For example:
Feel free to think of other TLDs for private but different usage.
I actually proposed
But seems they were too busy approving "Yet More Dot Coms" (e.g.
That's one of the reasons I have a low opinion of ICANN. Anyone in the field could see this problem years ago, but they have done little to help and maybe even made things worse.
Focusing on gun crimes is the tactic that gun control advocates use.
The problem is that victims don't care if they are stabbed to death or shot to death.
The correct metric is _total_ crimes of bodily threat or assault. Good guys use legally carried weapons to deal with bad guys irrespective of what the bad guys did or didn't bring.
So, don't focus on gun deaths (which, btw, also counts suicides.. which is also totally disingenuous)
Focus on murders. How does Illinois compare to say, North Dakota, in murders?
I'll stay in rural North Dakota, thanks.
But, there were many who read Orwell and were convinced government would eventually devolve to this.
Yeah; the dumb kids sitting at the back of the class eating their crayons, who didn't realize Orwell was referring to communist regimes which already existed at the time. In other words, the same idiots who make up the majority of the various Conspiracy Theory movements today.
Look at the amount of ignorance and stupidity around? See the number of university graduates thinking hoax mails/posts are true and spreading them...
So what would any sociopathic channel boss prefer to run? Stuff that most people would watch and talk about, or stuff that only a minority would enjoy?
It's about making money not educating people. That's why actually "public TV" can be a good thing. It's not like the private sector would care or even if they did at first, the $$$ pressures would change them.
Compare National Geographic's narration for their octopus vs shark video-
2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I prefer the 2006 narration - less annoying. But I guess most viewers would prefer the 2007 version?
It's an API for a future tyranny that we will be helpless against. Tomorrow is not today. Those in charge will not be the pussycats we have now; such power will attrack tyrants and secret governments
Man, I wish I were psychic
I totally get your point though. If only we'd never invented the printing press and the telegraph, we'd be completely tyrant-free by now. These newfangled gadgets are always making the world more dangerous for us. Pretty soon we won't even have lawns for yelling at kids to get off of.
The US government has it's citizens barely able to control their bowels due to unfounded fear of terrorism.
Complete fucking nonsense. The average American is more afraid of vaccines than they are of terrorists.
Dissidents are corralled into "free speech zones" or simply ignored.
Only in the mind of a delusional sociopath is being ignored the same as being oppressed. And what kind of egomaniac do you have to be in order to believe that you have a right to other peoples attention?
The government actively monitors and attempts to disrupt dissent online via operations against sites such as Slashdot.
Also, your tinfoil hat seems to be leaking.
There are secret courts designed to prevent proper oversight and scrutiny.
So secret that you and your cat were able to find loads of evidence which you would happily share with others if only the MIBs hadn't stolen it from you!
There is little difference between the two main parties, and the people with the real power don't change even when they do. Americans have very little real democratic influence.
Yeah, very little difference. I mean, both parties are human. And they firmly obey the laws of physics. And no matter how many Americans would like to repeal the law of gravity, it never seems to happen. OPPRESSION!
The US has outdone all those oppressive regimes and most of its citizens don't even realize what has happened.
Only a ignorant child who's never stepped foot outside the western sphere could EVER make such an absurd claim. You have absolutely no idea what real oppression and control are. You're so completely obsessed with your own petty grievances that you can't even be bothered to try and understand the plight of people who's entire lifetimes are spent in absolute terror of saying the wrong thing, or being perceived to be anything short of completely dedicated to the wishes of the state. You have no idea how disgusting your words truly are.
Our government doesn't yet have enough political power to safely brutalize its general population (though it's doing an increasingly good job on minorities)
That's hilarious. You're talking about the country which built concentration camps for Japanese citizens, had an official policy of enslaving and then later segregating blacks, and treated the Jews and the Irish as second-class citizens for centuries. That's the country which you think is "doing an increasingly good job on [brutalizing] minorities".
You've either never picked up a history book in your life, or you care more about politics and ideology than you do about reality.
Let's say 30% of the average purchase is labor costs - double that and the average item then costs (.7+.3*2) = 130% of normal.
Well while we're making up numbers, why not say it's 3%? Or 93%? As long as you can just pull numbers out of your ass you can make any kind of long-winded comment you like!
I love in California how there are warning labels on everything. And no one cares.
That's the inevitable result of constant FUD; people just ignore everything. That's why I'm ok with the idea of labelling "GMO", as long as we go ahead and label everything else.
"May contain trace amounts of Dihydrogen Monoxide".
"Possibly manufactured near tumour-inducing cell towers".
"Likely produced adjacent to a haunted graveyard".
Label everything so people will stop worrying about stupid labels.
When an American citizen seeks political asylum in Russia,
well,
it's time to take a good look at ourselves.
So true. It's really time you guys did something about the affordability of your mental-health services.
All of this automated surveillance has gotten out of control, and allows the government to oppress people more efficiently than ever before.
Kinda funny, then, that bankrupt regimes with 1980s era electronics are orders of magnitude better at this "oppression" thing than our own high-tech governments.
I know of several people who were dismissed as tinfoil hatters prior to the Snowden revelations.
I strongly suspect that those people can still be safely dismissed as tinfoil hat wearers. When you spit out a hundred different conspiracy theories every day, one of them is bound to be right eventually. That's the magic of probability and large numbers.
The only inevitability is that the term "begs the question" is now and will remain ambiguous.
Everything is ambiguous if you're ignorant. Why does that matter? Should I stop using words with more than three syllables just because someone might misunderstand them?
The phrase "begs the question" is never ambiguous to an educated individual who actually looks at the context in which it's employed. It's only ambiguous to those who either don't understand it's original meaning, or don't bother paying attention to the discussion.
I don't know about small windows- your car has to pass other safety laws and regulations.
As for HUDs I think you can have them if they can only show driver/rider related stuff while the vehicle is in operation, if the screen can be general purpose like Google Glass then it's illegal:
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vc...
27602. (a) A person shall not drive a motor vehicle if a television receiver, a video monitor, or a television or video screen, or any other similar means of visually displaying a television broadcast or video signal that produces entertainment or business applications, is operating and is located in the motor vehicle at a point forward of the back of the driverâ(TM)s seat, or is operating and the monitor, screen, or display is visible to the driver while driving the motor vehicle.
(b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to the following equipment when installed in a vehicle:
(1) A vehicle information display.
(2) A global positioning display.
(3) A mapping display.
[etc]
The law doesn't seem that crazy as laws go considering how crazy drivers can get
Suppose for a moment that you are building a new processor for mobile devices.
The mobile device makers - Apple, Google, and Microsoft -- all have "App Stores". Side loading is possible to varying degrees, but in no case is it supported or a targeted business scenario.
These big 3 all provide their own SDKs. They specify the compilers, the libraries, etc.
Many of the posts in this thread talk about how critical it will be for the compilers to produce code well suited for this processor...
Arguably, due to the app development toolchain and software delivery monoculture attached to each of the mobile platforms, it is probably easier than ever to improve compilers and transparently update the apps being held in app-store catalogs to improve their performance for specific mobile processors.
It's not the wild west any more; with tighter constraints around the target environment, more specific optimizations become plausible.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
