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I did not find the study the GPP referred to, but I have seen several studies indicating that drug and explosive sniffing dogs tend to signal where the handler thinks there is something to be found. Here is a link to an article about one such study: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/w...
And I believe that this is the paper on the study referenced in that article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
If this technique is used solely to locate hidden devices which are known to exist, and not as an excuse to search for hidden devices which are suspected to exist, I would find it acceptable. The problem is that I am quite confident that if the handler suspects that the person has a hidden External Storage Device, the dog will signal that the person does have one, giving the handler and excuse to conduct a warrant less search of the person and/or their belongings...and if the handler finds such a device it will be admissible even if it is not in the location the dog signaled.

So, no protection at all should be applied until a species becomes actually endangered? We should watch the range and number of wild species collapse until its survival is actually endangered before doing something about it?

Hmm, seems like it would make much more sense to observe species moving in the direction of becoming endangered, and take modest measures to prevent that from happening in the first place. Waiting for a crisis before taking any action is stupid.

The fact is the burrowing owl is disappearing in California.

It is actually in the interest to owners of private property to prevent the species from becoming endangered, because if that happens legal restrictions go into effect on what they can do with land with endangered populations on it. But if steps are taken to prevent this from happening, those legal restrictions do not ever go into effect.

Preventing a species from becoming endangered is in the best interest of capitalist developers and land owners wishing to exploit their property commercially (or for any other reason).

The thing is, natural DNA is a type of hardware that often contains executable software. Abortion opponents erroneously think that the software in human DNA is somehow so much more special than other types of software that when it gets processed, that processing should never be interrupted --even though according to this, about 2/3 of all human conceptions, which initiate the processing of human DNA software, quite naturally terminate/abort before birth.
Yet not a single abortion opponent anywhere can show exactly why human DNA software must be considered special. The software in human DNA represents a potential output --but there is nowhere in Nature that specifies that a potential must be fulfilled. As evidence, I invite each and every abortion opponent to stand at the edge of a cliff, and contemplate a potential to fall, which doesn't have to be fulfilled.

I think you should turn the question around and ask were some groups of people have the traits you cite. According to Professor Gregory Clark, there was a persistent selection of some population subgroups over 20 generations up to about 1800. http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.ed...

That's the same number of generations and selection pressure that the Russians used to change the personality of wild foxes into tame ones.

Not that selection will matter very much in the not so distant future when we have complete control of our genes.

40% of Americans below the poverty line. Are you telling them that they need to save up in case they lose their jobs? It's government's responsibility to deal with systemic risk because most individuals and their families can't. Or are you one of those hard-nosed, law of the jungle assholes?

When did that happen? I understand the poverty rate in the USA is between 12 and 13% https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/fa...

Please make your point, but when you lie about your base numbers it doesn't look good.

BTW.. I've lived below the poverty line a number of times in my life. In fact it was a key experience in my childhood that instilled my "I'm not going to be poor like that" motivations that me in the work force and striving to better my situation. I understand that there are poor who cannot help it, they are disabled or incapable of working for one reason or another, but please understand that there are those who are poor by CHOICE, those who *could* work but are unwilling to try. Welfare is for the first group and starvation should be for the second.

There are basically four rules for not being in poverty. 1. Finish High School, 2. Don't have kids out of wedlock, 3. Get a job, learn a trade (i.e. WORK) and 4. Stay out of unsecured debt (i.e. Pay CASH for necessitates, don't borrow to live). If you do that, you will lower your chances of being in poverty by 90% or more. If you find yourself in poverty after following the rules, draw welfare with my compliments and let me know so I can help you find work.

That's from an editorial in Mother Jones about 5 years back which made a big splash on the Internet, but didn't provide much evidence (mainly it just asserted the correlation was strong enough to be irrefutable).

A perusal of recent research on the topic turns up this recent JAMA paper which concluded that after controlling for childhood socioeconomic status, "Findings failed to support a dose-response association between BLL and consequential criminal offending." That would suggest that it's growing up in poverty which leads to future criminal behavior. And indeed if you look at the historical poverty rate, it dropped substantially right around 1970, around the time leaded gasoline began being phased out. And if you compare poverty rate by race, you find that the two races with the highest crime rates (black and hispanic) also have the highest childhood poverty rates.

This study which states "The consequences of lead exposure for later crime are theoretically compelling, but direct evidence from representative, longitudinal samples is sparse," reaches pretty much the same conclusion, but may be more useful as it provides direct links to other Google Scholar papers on the topic.

This isn't to say lead is safe. It's known to depress IQ, and though the link with future criminal behavior is weak, it is more strongly linked to antisocial behavior and delinquency. Just that the "irrefutable" link between leaded gasoline and crime presented in the Mother Jones article may in fact just have been a random correlation, not causation.

I know, right? There's no tomato picking machines, apple picking machines, blueberry picking machines, or raspberry picking machines, AND THERE NEVER WILL BE!!!

> There is a lot of truth to the old saying, "scratch a homosexual, find a paedophile".

No, there's not. There are far more straight pedophiles than gay, and most victims are molested by straight men.

Educate yourself

"A billionaire doesn't maintain a desire to become a trillionaire because of "survival mechanisms","

Actually, they do, at least such traits (often called greed or avarice) were strongly selected in Europeans. http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.ed...

What happened over about 20 generations (at least) was that the upper economic strata reproduced at a much higher rate than the lowest strata. This level of selection gave us tame foxes after the same number of generations.

So it is not surprising that people with these traits crop up in every generation, and more so from people of a certain ethnic background. Incidentally, the Chinese were also subjected to this and other personality selection forces similar to but not exactly the same as Europeans. At least that's the story you can get in Clark's book, Fairwells to Alms.

All that safety net addition in the last Administration did nothing, apparently. Likewise during the Clinton years - it wasn't until welfare reform was pushed through that the poverty rate started to drop. You sound all nice and intellectual and high-minded, but the reality is that if you make it easy to stay in the safety net - a good percentage of people will choose to do so. When you make staying in the safety net harder - you'll find a lot leave it, and the only ones that stay there probably truly need it.

Our Federal Government spends about $1000 per MONTH per man, woman and child in these United States. Of that $1000, about $700 of it is on social welfare (medicare/medicaid, social security, welfare, unemployment, SNAP, etc.). How much more needs to be spent - per person - to solve your issues? Do you have a number you can give us? Apparently $8,400 per man, woman, and child per year doesn't do it - how much more?

Assuming your statistics above are correct, if the spending was just on those who live in poverty, are homeless, and go bankrupt, that would be about $56,000 per year per person - those who need the safety net. That is well above the the median income in the US, and one would think it would empty the safety net entirely - yet it doesn't solve the issue. Why? Because of rampant waste and misuse of those social funds. Note that I am only talking about spending RIGHT NOW on social welfare - not redirecting EPA, transportation, debt interest, defense, etc. We are supposedly spending tens of thousands of dollars a year per person in the safety net - and we see their numbers increase, not decrease. Why is that? Why aren't we able to help people out?

I propose it's not because of the amount of spending being too little - but that we make it too easy to stay in the net. And there are strong political and financial benefits to many in Government by keeping that safety net full of dependents.

So I ask you: how much spending should we do to help those in the safety net - a nice solid number or reference (such as we should spend up to XX% of the median personal income), and should we help people out - or just leave them in it?

Here, have some actual facts that disagree with your hand-waving:
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news...
https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/fa...

It's not quite as old as the great Four Tops hit (1966), but Prof. Matloff has been writing on the topic of immigration for more than 20 years. Here's a link to some of his earlier writings that precede the current H1-B debate: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/...

I can imagine what Matloff (author of The Art of R Programming) had to say about it.

Reading the paper, it seems that they used the space that the last 24 processors would have taken to provide the 768KB of RAM:

KiloCore’s 1000 MIMD processors are arrayed in 32 columns and 31 rows with 8 processors and 768 KB inside 12 independent memories in a 32nd row...

Totally easy to add external ram. In fact, it supports 12 independent memory modules. The 768 KB is in place of cache memory. Basically, it is a working table in which any of the CPUs can access any part of it.

The press release does not include it, nor does the slashdot summary. The link to the paper: http://vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu/pub...

The answer is we don't know, and those who say "no way" and those that say "absolutely" have little evidence to support or contradict them, since it's all speculation.

However, according to the EPA humans have been producing between 5 and 6 GT (billion metric tonnes) or CO2 a year form quite some time. Trying to grow meat in a laboratory and make it scalable like this likely produces less than a few tonnes, so less than 0.0000001% increase. Estimates of the animal agriculturla contribution to this seem to average around 5% (World Resources Institute, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and Pitesky et al. 2009) [NB: I just eyeballed this, didn't actually pull out a spreadsheet].so about 300,000,000T.

If we "spend" 2-6T of CO2 for a mere 1% chance that if adopted widely it will save emissions from meat production by an ultra-paltry 1 in 10,0000 (300,000T/year), even factoring the risk, it's a really smart investment. So do it. Once you're done, then let's talk about how it will save the world from Global Warming.

I've gotten way more news of what crimes are occurring from university police than from any city police. They're especially vocal about any rape or assault cases because the University want the students to know that they're "keeping them safe" or whatever.

Pick a university and try to find their reporting page. For example: UC Davis Police daily logs. By federal law, they're required to publish these logs.

ROUNDUP ORIGINAL herbicide is no more than slightly toxic based on toxicity studies. No significant adverse health effects are expected to develop if only small amounts (less than a mouthful) are swallowed. Ingestion of similar formulations has been reported to produce gastrointestinal discomfort with irritation of the mouth, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Oral ingestion of large quantities of one similar product has been reported to result in hypotension and lung edema.

With an LD50 more than half that of table salt, we should all be very careful.

The CRAY-1S cooling system is designed to limit the IC die temperature to a maximum of 65C. This provides a reliability margin from the 150C absolute maximum IC junction temperature. The IC package case is maintained at 54C. Heat generated in the silicon die flows through the IC package to the PC board ground plane and then to the 0.08-in thick copper cold plate. The cold plate conducts the board heat to its edges, which are held to 25C by contact with a cast aluminum cold bar. The aluminum cold bars form the twelve vertical columns in the computer mainframe into which the modules slide horizontally on 0.4-in spacings. A refrigerant, Freon 22, flows through stainless steel tubes embedded in the cold bars. The development of the composite aluminum/stainless steel cold bars represents a solution to one of the more difficult design problems of the CRAY-1. Cast aluminum is actually porous and oil mixed in with the Freon can cause reliability problems if it leaks onto the modules. A method to bond stainless steel tubing into cast aluminum had to be invented in order to make the cold bars practical.

I just read a great essay (PDF format) by Phillip Rogaway which strongly argues exactly that we need to develop new kinds of cryptography which are aimed squarely at making mass surveillance impossible. Once mass surveillance has been shut down completely, then maybe we can talk about ways for law enforcement to "work around" encryption in very limited and controlled ways[1]. But as long as mass surveillance is feasible, this is a complete non-starter, because any mechanism for bypassing cryptographic security will be used to increase the penetration of mass surveillance. And at this point I don't think we can settle for purely political means of shutting down mass surveillance. Political restrictions on surveillance are necessary, but not sufficient. We also need technology that makes it difficult and expensive, because if it's cheap and easy it can always be done on the sly.

[1] Once mass surveillance is out of the way, then we can talk about "workarounds". But it's crucial that the workarounds not compromise the security of the result. At present, I don't think we have any cryptographic technology that enables controlled, limited access without compromising security in normal operation. Further, I don't think any such technology is possible. But until mass surveillance is shut down we can't even discuss it.

Also, you may not want to read about early research, but I do. If you want nothing but product announcements, go read manufacturer press releases instead of coming to Slashdot.

Battery History and physics is a fascinating subject. And once you know about the physics involved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/An...

You can see we aren't even close to done yet. OP has no clue about battery advances, Compared to even five years ago, we've come quite a way.

But once we pay attention to the physics, and not Top Gear or disgruntled NYT reviewers, there are real reasons to get excited about the potential of electric vehicles.

there is no such thing as "illegal" immigration

From http://migration.ucdavis.edu/m...

"The December 1999 immigration law, according to the Popular Party, was making Spain a destination for illegal immigrants because it offered them K-12 education and medical care on the same basis as Spaniards, as well as political rights such as the right to hold demonstrations and join unions. The Spanish government, in seeking to amend the law, said "no country in the world … offers such rights" to unauthorized migrants, and noted that 6,958 foreigners were apprehended trying to enter southern Spain in the first seven months of 2000, compared to 5,492 in all of 1999."

So Spain definitely had "illegal" immigration. Did they just up and remove all immigration law recently then? Or did they just rename it?

Not sure if you are trying to be clever or funny

http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Ph...

http://science.slashdot.org/st...

Which point to this article http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sc... which cites this article http://sciencecareers.sciencem... , which cites this researcher Matlof in this paper: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/...

The long and the short of it: "It boils down to cheap, compliant labor." -- Norman Matloff.

I came here to ask that very question ... according to this:

Black phosphorus is the most stable form; the atoms are linked together in puckered sheets, like graphite. Because of these structural similarities black phosphorus is also flaky like graphite and possesses other similar properties.

But I have no idea what "most stable" means in a relative sense.

I don't think of graphite as being something which bursts into flames, so maybe it's not so far fetched.

The Americas, yes, not the United States of America, which is what we're talking about.

Are we? I thought, we are talking about eating vs. not eating fats and sugars.

But, fine, let's talk about Mexico — the actual source of tomatoes (actually, that may have been in modern-day Ohio), chili peppers, and chocolate. Their obesity levels are even higher than the US'... You were saying?

I'm so glad you cleared that up for us.

Sure: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/w...

basic method was simple, they setup a course with NO drugs or explosives. They told handlers there were several test stations. Some had meat (a test for the dog) some had nothing.

You can see the results.... almost every walkthrough had hits. When there was an indicator to the handler that there should be a hit in an area, the false positive rate went up, but it was ridiculously high already.

Dogs have an amazing sense of smell, but that doesn't mean you can read their minds.

Scientific testing says otherwise.

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/welcome/features/2010-2011/02/20110223_drug_dogs.html

I'm too lazy to add anchor tags, but here are some references for you.

The UCDavis study is the best description of this -- when actually tested in scenarios designed to expose false positive results, that's EXACTLY what happened -- the dogs alerted in every place they shouldn't have and where the handler was given cues that the dogs would alert, the dogs were MORE likely to alert.

This is a huge problem with using dogs. It's not that dogs aren't good at sniff detection, its that dogs are so inclined to please their handlers that even when the handlers aren't purposefully lying they are still signaling their dogs that they should find something. So how do you separate out the dog actually sniffing out drugs versus the experienced profiling of the handler who expects their target to have drugs, gets a false alert from the dog and then discovers drugs from a hand search?

I don't think we CAN know if it was a legitimate signal from the dog or just the officer's experience that $Socialtype or $MinorityMember is very likely to have drugs.

It gets much, much worse if you take away the assumption that the cops/handler are 100% honest all the time. Do you really think that there isn't even some deliberate dishonesty with dogs? The worst outcome for the cops has been "well, the dog knows you had something in here but since I didn't find anything I'll let you go". The best outcome for the cops is that they get away with an illegal search that results in an arrest and conviction based on a dog's behavior that is beyond question, because, you know, dogs are so good at sniffing and its "a well established tool in our legal system and for good reason."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/w...

http://www.cato.org/blog/cleve...

FWD.US is a conspiracy created by Mark Zuckerberg to help drive down IT wages in America.

I have no problem with talented immigrants, but American corporations are LYING about the need for those H1B immigrants due to so-called "shortages" of STEM workers in America, and in the offing they are displacing QUALIFIED American workers with those immigrants (in clear violation of the law). Here are some FACTS to counter Zuckerberg's SPIN around his company's (and others, like MSFT, Cisco, Facebook, Google, etc.) cynical attempt to drive down wages. Just look at the recent policy decision to permit H1B spouses to seek work permits in May, 2015 something; that's 150,000 new workers (most of them professionals - and many with IT skills) into an already challenged IT economy. FWD.US is part of a legal conspiracy to drive down tech wages, under cover of the lie that America does not have sufficient STEM talent. Zuckerberg is shilling for his pals, and working against the American IT worker.

FACTS: One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem http://www.cringely.com/2012/1...

Here's an attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

H1-B abuse if accompanied by other worker-visa abuse L-1 Visa (H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg). There are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas. http://economyincrisis.org/con...

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on this problem. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/...

Federal offshoring of healthcare.gov website http://www.economicpopulist.or...

How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

There is no stem worker crisis in America http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo...

Marc Zuckerberg and wealthy tech scions continue to perpetuate this trend http://programmersguild.org/do...

Yahoo http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs...

Unemployment is a problem in America, and so are our sticky problems with immigration. Undercover of helping those immigrants who have so long labored in our agricultural sector, the American IT sector has seen fit to use the sentiment to help agricultural workers to create a Landslide of advantage for itself. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

H1Bs in Sacramento http://www.news10.net/story/ne...

Probably not. But they could very likely do it to their close relatives, bees, which might be useful. Bees are actually more closely related to ants than they are to wasps.

That's a crazy list. Citation absolutely fucking needed for all of it. "40% or more of gay people are pedophiles"? Back that up right now or take it back.

P.S. A quick Google found this:http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty_sites/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html

The conclusion section:

The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molest children. This is not to argue that homosexual and bisexual men never molest children. But there is no scientific basis for asserting that they are more likely than heterosexual men to do so. And, as explained above, many child molesters cannot be characterized as having an adult sexual orientation at all; they are fixated on children.

Undercover of helping immigrant agricultural workers who have long needed a break in America, the American technology sector - lead by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - has seen fit to heavily lobby Congress to increase H1-B and other worker visa permits, vastly increasing H1-B visas at a time when very good research shows that there is no shortage of tech workers in America. Zuckerberg has so far succeeded, in the Senate. What is motivating the claim for more H1-B visas?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

previously

One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem and Two H1-B's walk into a Bar: More on the H1-B visa problem

One of many examples of what goes on behind closed doors: an immigration attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers.

H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg; there are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas.

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on the H1-B and foreign worker visa problem. Matloff claims that Hi-B abuse has cost Americans $10Trillion dollars, since 1975. Inc. Magazine weights in Professor Matloff's Webpage

Mother Jones weighs in:How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers

Marc Zuckerberg and other wealthy tech scions - including large immigration law firms and corporation who profit from importing H1-B's continue to perpetuate this trend

How H1-B malpractice hurts the American economy

Most of the new crop of H1-Bs is coming from one of the most corrupt university systems in the world.

Indian government officials are not happy that the universities that they collude with might have some limitations placed on the abuses that have enabled them to "sell" their product to the American IT sector.

How the new immigration bill could ignite a trade war with India

How to underpay an H1-B worker

Undercover of helping immigrant agricultural workers who have long needed a break in America, the American technology sector - lead by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - has seen fit to heavily lobby Congress to increase H1-B and other worker visa permits, vastly increasing H1-B visas at a time when very good research shows that there is no shortage of tech workers in America. Zuckerberg has so far succeeded, in the Senate. What is motivating the claim for more H1-B visas?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

previously

One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem and Two H1-B's walk into a Bar: More on the H1-B visa problem

One of many examples of what goes on behind closed doors: an immigration attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers.

H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg; there are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas.

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on the H1-B and foreign worker visa problem. Matloff claims that Hi-B abuse has cost Americans $10Trillion dollars, since 1975. Inc. Magazine weights in Professor Matloff's Webpage

Mother Jones weighs in:How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers

Marc Zuckerberg and other wealthy tech scions - including large immigration law firms and corporation who profit from importing H1-B's continue to perpetuate this trend

How H1-B malpractice hurts the American economy

Most of the new crop of H1-Bs is coming from one of the most corrupt university systems in the world.

Indian government officials are not happy that the universities that they collude with might have some limitations placed on the abuses that have enabled them to "sell" their product to the American IT sector.

How the new immigration bill could ignite a trade war with India

How to underpay an H1-B worker

Case in point: Most people with kids know about Treehouse -- or at least about some of their publications like The Cat in the Hat knows A Lot About That.

And then there's Canadian comedians that spawned things like Saturday Night Live, which might be familiar to some Americans.

Interestingly, a lot of those guys even went to the same Canadian post secondary school, subsidized by the Canadian government (and then got their foot in the door via Canadian Arts Council grants): http://particle.physics.ucdavi...

Zuckerberg is also a traitor to the American tech worker.

Hey, Mark, MSFT just laid off 18,000 people; Cisco just laid off a bunch; MSFT just the other day closed its research center right down the street from you - filled with gifted coders and brilliance. Mark, there is a MOUND of studies showing NO shortage of STEM works in the US.

Some facts: The H-1B fiasco has cost Americans **$10TRILLION** dollars, since 1975. For anyone who wants to know the truth, read on.

One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem http://www.cringely.com/2012/1... Here's an attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

H1-B abuse if accompanied by other worker-visa abuse L-1 Visa (H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg). There are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas. http://economyincrisis.org/con...

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on this problem. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/...

Federal offshoring of healthcare.gov website http://www.economicpopulist.or...

How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

There is no stem worker crisis in America http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo...

Marc Zuckerberg and wealthy tech scions continue to perpetuate this trend http://programmersguild.org/do...

Yahoo http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs...

Also, little known is the tactic of creating many different kinds of sub-visa categories to "fool the system". There are almost TWENTY different kinds of work visas. The whole thing is a sham and a lie, designed to drag down wages and keep from having to re-train Americans. Never thought I would see this day!

Some of the information presented in the following links will shock most Americans, because American corporate leaders don't want us to know the truth, and they are paying off policy makers with contributions to keep the truth from us. Bill Gates, John Chambers, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and many, many others - including the principals of the most prominent immigration law firms, who profit from this outrage, are lying through their teeth. There is NO shortage of STEM workers in the US!!

Last, Zuckerberg has all out lied since day 1 about guaranteeing privacy on Facebook - just outright lied. Facebook has become something that teens shun and will soon go the way of MSFT, run by another deceiver, Bill Gates, on the H1-B issue.

Apparently, this is quite true. According to a UC davis study: which was published in the January issue of Journal Animal Cognition: The performance of drug- and explosives-sniffing dog/handler teams is affected by human handlers’ beliefs.

The study, published in the January issue of the journal Animal Cognition, found that detection-dog/handler teams erroneously “alerted,” or identified a scent, when there was no scent present more than 200 times — particularly when the handler believed that there was scent present. ....

The handlers were told that there might be up to three of their target scents in each room, and that there would be a piece of red construction paper in two of the rooms that identified the location of the target scent. However, there were no target scents — explosives or drugs — placed in any of the rooms. ...

Although there should have been no alerts in any of the rooms, there were alerts in all rooms. Moreover, there were more alerts at the locations indicated by construction paper than at either of the locations containing just the decoy scents or at any other locations.

There is ample evidence that many American corporations have been actively discriminating against American Workers for well over a decade. This is especially true when it comes to STEM work skills. India, China, and Russia have been the main sources of off-shoring (and now, in-shoring). India is the absolute worst, with India's goovernment actively pushing for more H1-Bs because they would rather America hire them than India build proper educational and business infrastructure systems. Indian government is one of the most corrupt on earth (easily as corrupt as some of the worst African states).

Want proof? Unemployment is a problem in America, and so are our sticky problems with immigration. Undercover of helping those immigrants who have so long labored in our agricultural sector, the American IT sector has seen fit to use the sentiment to help agricultural workers to create a Landslide of advantage for itself. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The H-1B fiasco has cost Americans **$10TRILLION** dollars, since 1975. For anyone who wants to know the truth, read on.

One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem http://www.cringely.com/2012/1...

Here's an attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

H1-B abuse if accompanied by other worker-visa abuse L-1 Visa (H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg). There are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas. http://economyincrisis.org/con...

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on this problem. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/...

Federal offshoring of healthcare.gov website http://www.economicpopulist.or...

How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

There is no stem worker crisis in America http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo...

Marc Zuckerberg and wealthy tech scions continue to perpetuate this trend http://programmersguild.org/do...

Yahoo http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs...

Also, little known is the tactic of creating many different kinds of sub-visa categories to "fool the system". There are almost TWENTY different kinds of work visas. The whole thing is a sham and a lie, designed to drag down wages and keep from having to re-train Americans. Never thought I would see this day!

Some of the information presented in the aforementioned links will shock most Americans, because American corporate leaders don't want us to know the truth, and they are paying off policy makers with contributions to keep the truth from us. Bill Gates, John Chambers, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and many, many others - including the principals of the most prominent immigration law firms, who profit from this outrage, are lying through their teeth. There is NO shortage of STEM workers in the US!!

Nice theory, but there are more poor whites than blacks, therefore more poor white folks exposed to lead plumbing than poor blacks.

Just a statistical fact - while 13% of blacks are poor, 6% of whites are also classified as poor, yet whites out-number blacks almost five to one...

It's incorrect to assume the majority of the poor are minorities.

Actually, where I grew up, the blacks looked down on the poor whites and did not want to associate with them.

Also: In decending order, lies, damned lies and statistics.
Never trust one of those "studies" until you see their actual data. And then still don't trust it...

Nice theory, but there are more poor whites than blacks, therefore more poor white folks exposed to lead plumbing than poor blacks.

Just a statistical fact - while 13% of blacks are poor, 6% of whites are also classified as poor, yet whites out-number blacks almost five to one...

It's incorrect to assume the majority of the poor are minorities.

https://www.princeton.edu/~pea...
"The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program, which flourished for nearly three decades under the aegis of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, has completed its experimental agenda of studying the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes, and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality."

Disclaimer: I worked in a joint program with them when I was managing the PU robotics lab in the 1980s. The program was funded in part by the McDonnell Foundation (of McDonnell-Douglas) in part because supposedly strange unexplainable things happened in fighter cockpits especially to pilots under stress in emergency situations. Rather that give the money just to the PEAR lab, it was decided to give the money to a group of labs that would work together somehow exploring aspects of human consciousness (or something like that, not saying how effective all that was). Dean Radin is the researcher who connected the groups back then and has been active in parapsychology work since: http://www.deanradin.com/

Another person active in this field of consciousness studies is Charles Tart (unrelated to PU, but interesting in the field).
http://www.paradigm-sys.com/
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/...

Related items at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell) which include mention of Dean Radin and Charles Tart:
http://www.noetic.org/search/?...

Mainstream science has been apparently useful, even if it is more the tinkerers and engineers who actually invent and bring to production useful things. But ultimately, if we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit we don't very much understand the nature of consciousness or the deeper nature of reality, which together, as much as we think we know about them, still form a "great mystery" (a term some Native Americans used for God and such). And, no, mapping a few or even many neural pathways or having a chemical analysis of brain neuro-transmitters does not equate to understanding the mystery of consciousness. As Charles Tart points out, there is a step where many otherwise good scientists move from apparently solid ground in their specialties to claiming fallacious things like "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" and so create essentially a new religion of "Scientistic Materialism".
http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/a...
"His [Tart's] and other scientists' work convinced him that there is a real and vitally important sense in which we are spiritual beings, but the too dominant, scientistic, materialist philosophy of our times, masquerading as genuine science, dogmatically denies any possible reality to the spiritual. This hurts people, it pressures them to reject vital aspects of their being."

Anyway, mass compulsory schooling in "classrooms" (intended by 1920s eugenicists to segregate people by social class so they interbreed and stratify, see Gatto) is also in general another way of hurting people:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com...
"The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real. ... Our official assumptions about the nature of modern childhood are dead wrong. Children allowed to take responsibility an

Plenty of food crops are grown in greenhouses. According to this, "The 2002 Census of Agriculture estimated a total $15 billion of greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture crops sold in 2002, including [...] $1.2 billion or eight percent food crops such as tomatoes grown in greenhouses."

"Some 1800 hectares of vegetables are grown in greenhouses" in Israel.

"In Europe and Israel, essentially all of these crops [peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons] are produced in greenhouses." Source.

Trees are great at dealing with bacteria.

We soon found that disease bacteria such as these were not recoverable from wooden surfaces in a short time after they were applied, unless very large numbers were used. New plastic surfaces allowed the bacteria to persist, but were easily cleaned and disinfected. However, wooden boards that had been used and had many knife cuts acted almost the same as new wood, whereas plastic surfaces that were knife-scarred were impossible to clean and disinfect manually, especially when food residues such as chicken fat were present.

http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis....

Do you have any evidence that this is for H1B workers, and not for promotions, or head hunting someone within the states?

Do you have any evidence that they are for promotions, or head hunting someone within the states? Nice try insisting that the burden of proof is entirely on my end, but it makes no sense in this case.

Do you have any evidence that this only happens in the states?

No, I'm afraid I'm only familiar with abusive and discriminatory hiring practices in the US.

Do you even have any evidence that people on H1Bs are cheap?

Take a look at what this statistician says.

Hint, I'm on an H1B

Then clearly you have an open mind on this subject.

I'm certainly not underpaid, even by bay area standards

Always cite an anecdote when no data bolsters your claim.

Sure, weight x distance is generally fairer than just direct gas usage. But if we're going to go there, why not do it properly? Damage to infrastructure is proportional to the 4th power of weight; thus, we should probably tax something like ([miles travelled]/1000miles)*([vehicle weight]/1500lbs)^4 for vehicle registration. That would take into account the proper damage. The average american drives 13476 miles and the average fleet curb weight (in 2004, latest i could quickly find) was 3239 lbs; this would give a result of $293 for registration. If you drove the same amount in a vehicle half that, you'd pay like $17, and if you drove a vehicle twice that weight you'd pay $4466. That would take into account proper damage incurred on infrastructure.

From the article: "Our research found that the fourth power is often inaccurate, " continuing: "More importantly, pavement serviceability is often not the most relevant measure used by highway agencies to trigger maintenance activities."

Sorry. What other occupation has 1/4 of people interested in it? I know big contractors like Ratheon like to perpetuate the myth of a "desperate IT labor shortage"

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html

with news releases, "polls" and made to order stories for the purpose of ginning up support for increasing H1B numbers, but really. Am I supposed to accept the premise without any thinking here and join the conversation about "why". Let's instead start with "and....?".

Sure, weight x distance is generally fairer than just direct gas usage. But if we're going to go there, why not do it properly?

Damage to infrastructure is proportional to the 4th power of weight; thus, we should probably tax something like

        ([miles travelled]/1000miles)*([vehicle weight]/1500lbs)^4

for vehicle registration. That would take into account the proper damage.

The average american drives 13476 miles and the average fleet curb weight (in 2004, latest i could quickly find) was 3239 lbs; this would give a result of $293 for registration. If you drove the same amount in a vehicle half that, you'd pay like $17, and if you drove a vehicle twice that weight you'd pay $4466.

That would take into account proper damage incurred on infrastructure.

________
13476/1000 = 13.476
3239/1500 = 2.1593
13.476*2.1593 = 29.552868
29.552868 * 29.552868 * 29.552868 * 29.552868 = 762778.66

That's a lot of tax!

Sure, weight x distance is generally fairer than just direct gas usage. But if we're going to go there, why not do it properly?

Damage to infrastructure is proportional to the 4th power of weight; thus, we should probably tax something like

([miles travelled]/1000miles)*([vehicle weight]/1500lbs)^4

for vehicle registration. That would take into account the proper damage.

The average american drives 13476 miles and the average fleet curb weight (in 2004, latest i could quickly find) was 3239 lbs; this would give a result of $293 for registration. If you drove the same amount in a vehicle half that, you'd pay like $17, and if you drove a vehicle twice that weight you'd pay $4466.

That would take into account proper damage incurred on infrastructure.