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I think nobody should be going to prison for looking at or storing any image on their computer. Or reading any book or text as well (some countries prosecute possession of certain written material).
Such actions are part of the private sphere, which the state has absolutely no business policing, unless e.g. you commit some violent crime or are diagnosed with a severe mental illness.
The state's policing of what we are allowed to read is a modern day witch hunt.
What about a special reduced uplink power mode, with only 128Kb of bandwidth for example? Additionally, you can conceal the dish from terrestrial detectors, by putting it in a forest clearing for example. Those two things combined might make it a lot more difficult for the Iranian government to find a Starlink dish.
I wonder if SpaceX has enough clout to influence the ITU decisions somehow, through political lobbying, for example?
From the article: "With current techniques, it will be hard for victims to identify who has assaulted them and build a case against that person."
The author is trying to claim it is as serious as assault. That is madness. It's defamation at most.
Some very primitive instinct is involved in anything to do with sex, that explains why we are so irrational about it.
The GNOME code of conduct is just so toxic, I encourage people to disobey it deliberately in protest, e.g. by making some offensive jokes.
" Influencing or encouraging inappropriate behavior. If you influence or encourage another person to violate the Code of Conduct, you may face the same consequences as if you had violated the Code of Conduct. " - I encourage other people to violate the Code of Conduct, in an act of disobedience, as long as they stay within the law.
This is just the tip of the iceberg:
Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux macOS and iOS:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661182
These laws which criminalize viewing or reading things need to go now.
Yes, absolutely. It is today's equivalent of moral puritanism. It is absolutey inconceivable to me that a 21st Century society could be prosecuting people for viewing images. Distributing and making those images should remain a crime, of course. But absolutely not viewing. And we can continue to shut down the sites hosting such material, and encourage those who come across them to report them.
It is not acceptable to prosecute someone for the act of viewing a web site, regardless of it's content. Doing so is absolute totalitarianism.
In a free society, people should be able to browse any part of the Web without fear of punishment, it is fundamental. That includes exploring the darknet, one of the most interesting parts of the Web, without having to fear prosecution for unintentionally coming across child pornography.
What about reducing our usage of the Internet and using local resources instead? Personally I have local mirrors of various code repositories, and thousands of ebooks. If you want to nearly eliminate all surveillance, then you can air-gap your computer?
So we shift back from the collective (networked) systems to a more individualistic local information store? We already have local AI models, which is a step in the right direction.
Nobody should ever be prosecuted for viewing or reading anything, anywhere. Doing so is a hallmark of a de-facto police state. It's a fundamental liberty we have forgotten about as the frog has slowly boiled over the last 40 years.
They've joined the Linux Foundation, does that mean the models are going to be eventually censored to satisfy the foundation's AI safety policies? That includes ensuring the models don't generate content that's non-inclusive or against diversity policies?
It's not sustainable because the more people they are, the worse their living conditions will be. Look at how densely populated Asia is. Does everyone want to live like this? Overcrowding is also not good for our mental health.
It depends on who's doing the theft. If it's a high status organization or individual they get away with it, including those behind the 2008 financial crisis. If it's a low status individual, they get put behind bars. It's a dominance hierarchy and those at the top hold all the cards.
Your stance here is ridiculous. Common sense says it's wrong to arrest and/or prosecute people over such a trivial matter.
So much for all your supposed "justifications" for doing so. Have you completely lost all sense of proportionality here? Or has the legal system gone completely bonkers, then? Or are you trying to gaslight me?
We're talking about 0.1 watts of electricity being "stolen" at most.
I can't be bothered to search for it.
Then they can start cracking down on the problem if it becomes widespread. But not when it isn't.
When the punishment far exceeds the loss caused by the "crime" then it is absolutely unfair, it undermines the rule of law itself.
Just being arrested over it could be considered punishment itself. Especially if it's a young person who gets into trouble, it is traumatic for them. It is also sending the message that the system itself is unjust, and he/she might not think twice before committing a real crime, e.g. real theft or fraud when he/she grows up.
Less charitably, this is the kind of advice that mostly seems like an excuse to preach at people.
No, I just picked it as a random example of something that you can do to reduce population growth. Widespread access to birth control in developing countries would be a better solution. Supposedly educating girls in developing countries also helps reduce population growth as well. And there are probably countless other things you can do.
They also have traditions in many developing countries to have very large families.
Roundup being used as "drying agent", even I didn't know about that one. So much for me complaining about Sucralose and Aspartame, now we have glyphosate added to our foods, in large quantities. Shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi...
And I wonder what the combined effects of all these chemicals in our foods are on our health. Something which the studies don't usually cover?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/06/the-we...
The police keep track of this, and it can be used to validate audio recording evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_a...
Yes, and my kids are likely to be like me, outliers, that will end up suffering the same way.
And I heard the reason why teens act out so much can be due to the incredibly stifling environment they are in for their age. I think the rise of over-controlling helicopter parenting is making that even worse?
Throughout history the treatment of children in society has been absolutely appalling. And even in today's times emotional abuse of children is very common. During the COVID lockdown nearly half of children were victims of it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-surprising-see-sad-...
Also power trips (especially by radio hams) and territoriality (impinging on "their" spectrum). It really is animal behavior there, people are supposed to react better than that when such trivial "offenses" happen.
If there's deliberate high powered jamming going on, it's a completely different matter.
Well the ground is creating that exact opposing electric field anyway. If trees were planted to the same height as the wire, then the loss to the electric company is the same.
He's just in effect increasing the height of the ground slightly and tapping the potential difference. You might as well park a car underneath it, attach a wire between the body and ground, and get same or better results, because the surface area is larger (capacitively coupled).
Yes, caught for "stealing" 63 milliwatts of electricity, from charging the 88uF capacitor in that video from 426V to 489V over a period of 40 seconds.
If that was running all year round it would consume 0.6kWh of electricity, which is probably capacitive losses to the surroundings and would be lost anyway.
If it ever got to court, it would be thrown out instantly.
This is the same mentality behind thousands of bullshit complaints to the FCC by radio amateurs because someone broke a petty rule somewhere, and it's why I want nothing to do with the amateur radio hobby at all. The vast majority of them the FCC ignores.
It's been classed as an IARC Group 2B suspected carcinogen, this is new research (2023).
https://www.who.int/news/item/14-07-2023-aspartame-hazard-an...
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/statement/2023/06/widely-u...
Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Agent Orange, 2,3,7,8-TCDD, aspartame, patented GM crops and now glyphosate the list goes on. Monsanto (now Bayer) is really living up to the name of "evil corporation".
https://dioxindorms.com/content/chronology.html
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41271-018-0146-8
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/feb/24/monsanto...
But again he is barely even abstracting a single watt of energy. To take legal action for such a trivial "offense" is beyond ridiculous.
I looked at the overall actions of the group of people, instead of what they are saying.
It's not possible to abstract any sizable amount of energy this way, unless the line is kilometers long. It's the scale of the "theft" that matters, which is so trivial compared to the inherent losses in the transmission line.
The line losses are so huge anyway, this would barely even register. Heck a few large trees close to the power line would drain more energy than this. Considering such a trivial act as "theft" is completely ridiculous.
I doubt anyone would prosecute over it, it would get thrown out of court because it's so petty? No worse than littering, etc.