These audits don't normally come to light over a popular issue. The patriot act had been declining in popularity (and consequently usefulness as an excuse to gather information). Is this perhaps a foreboding of things to come? Maybe public sentiment sent waves through federal government and the yield is a federal audit that culminates into the patriot act being revoked? One hand washes another, no arrests are made, no harm no foul. Could it be that some FBI agents will act as a scapegoat and the federal government leverages this unauthorized use as their good deed for the quarter to instill trust in the populace once more?
I think that in context of the study we are not talking about music as the definitive 'get to know you' conversation. The study wanted pairs to get to know each other for 6 weeks, so I expect the leading conversation starter to be music because it is an easy going topic. There is a small amount of social etiquette involved with your standard bar or party and taking a casual conversation in stride and not losing the other person's interest. The conversation is expected to gauge reactions from both people without providing too much information all at once (IF you are both interested in each other and the music conversation works, you may move onto another topic and learn another facet of that person's personality). In the rap scenario you imply that both people want to make the conversation work so they overlook the details of the conversation. Ulterior motives aside, I would have to say that those two people will continue to neglect details until conversation comes to a head into an argument or you no longer find the other person interesting and realize that one or both of you aren't compatible in the simplest of conversations. On the flip side: you can't reasonably expect to walk into a bar/pub environment (sake of argument/social gathering) and start spouting theories on mathematics and get as far as you would at say, an engineering convention. A previous girlfriend of mine happened to be a mathematics major (and myself a minor), so we actually managed to talk mathematical theories from time to time and found the conversations interesting... the catch? music was one of the earlier topics, once we exhausted that we used education and things went pretty smooth... i think that by talking about music you just get a very general feel for the other person... but I agree that although the information is inconclusive... it is a great introductory conversation.
Strangely enough, the girlfriend can no longer be seen entering via the turbolift.
On a completely unrelated note: what happens to the room when he puts in any Star Wars DVD?
I can't answer the competition question for you (I myself use my iPod nearly all day. office/headphones commute/car-stereo connection and then home/stereo connection).
it's difficult not to find what you are looking for in the iTunes store. Granted, underground style music is not going to be available, but there are things that arn't necessarily mainstream available as well. You can download iTunes and check for yourself (without having to own an iPod). There is no cost (I believe they may require a paypal account at the minimum in order to access the store, but that's only to limit entry to potentially paying customers). One could easily just set up an account, browse, and never pay)
FTA:
As well as forgery charges, Mr Rauf has also been charged with carrying explosives.
But his lawyer says police evidence amounts only to bottles of hydrogen peroxide found in his possession.
Hydrogen peroxide is a disinfectant that can be used for bomb-making if other chemicals are added. the article also states that Rauf is flagged as a ringleader for this particular operation/mission.
There were other arrests made here, so let's review:
Murder case in 2002
Primary suspect flees country to Pakistan
Suspects carrying potential ingredients for creating explosives
Raul is one of many (one potential ingredient)
was not carrying a bomb per-se
Raul is however suspect in other outstanding cases
Raul was found not guilty on terrorist charges which (IANAL) are inconclusive as he was tried seperate from the `other ingredients` in this particular event. Would Raul have been able to assemble a bomb if he had the possessions of each of the other suspects (known suspects or not) on that particular flight? Pakistan should have allowed the suspect to be extradited to the UK for trial both for the 2002 murder case and in conjunction with the other suspects arrested in the plane threat to be taken in as a whole and not one part.
I agree with you, but although we, as individual developers influence where the open source movement can go, much of our support is driven by business, and much of the publicitly we have received is because of [big business] finding gems in open source and linux that fit their business-model. Big business also needs support... and as one post touches on, one day, Microsoft wages a legal suit against your Linux vendor and bleeds your vendor dry. Justified or not this is going to be a costly fight and financially in the favor of Microsoft... they can drag out litigation and end your vendor support forcing your company to make a 'new choice' (which could very likely be right into Microsoft & Novell/SuSE hands).
when i said monitoring i meant simply that the device itself will maintain a record that it was switched into it's continuous mode. Whatever we do with that information, we do. The cameras and microphones on the police cars being turned off; the fact of the matter is someone knows the device was disabled, leave it to the court to decide the shady business... well that helps out in the small cases. Use your PBA card when you get pulled over (whether it was warranted or not) and they'll turn off the mic to ask you about it... granted, if you are *really* in the wrong, you will receive a fine. I don't have faith in my law making government... local and state authorities I fully respect though.
I believe that there will be someone in the crowd who will make some noise regarding this kind of an action (of say using 'more than standard' force).... and I'm damn sure the chief is going to come in and say "what were you thinking, was that necessary?"... then we leave it to our legal system.
The range on the weapon is 500 meters. Proper use would dictate that you are not within striking range of the crowd to begin with... that's not overly realistic so let's say you can be fairly close. The burst mode I imagined would be under ideal circumstances. This is a mob I am talking about and a mob is a weapon just as much as this device is. The crowd is going to be angry and let's say they do rush you... a switch on the side of the gun takes only a flick of the finger to activate and then you show the few who decided it would be a good idea to rush you a thing or two in "maximum force". That's kind of how things work: If you're going easy on someone in a fight and they keep coming, it's time to change your tactic.
I fully support using this on a rioting mob with the dial turned all the way up. There's always a margin of error and someone is always in the wrong place at the wrong time but hey, that's the breaks; people need to learn to accept that sometimes sh*t happens. I would place more emphasis on keeping the infrastructure in tact than worrying about trampling deaths. Angry mobs will burn cities (can anybody name a few back in the 60s?)
it wouldn't block the full beam. the front row (if used from front to back) would have greater area of exposure with the same "need to flee" affect. as they're struggling or moving and exposing portions of the body next to them (remember, 7 foot spread on this beam)... it's going to connect with portions of skin/body all around them and penetrate.
I would tend to agree with you, but I would also say that if the weapon is being used from a safe (to the operator) distance, they will be able to use this weapon objectively and not just dump continuous strains of pain onto 12 people.
the opportune word here is peaceably. I'll go out on a limb and say that we're using this as a weapon. A mob IS a weapon when they are no longer peaceably assembled.
There's the factor that the article mentions the diameter of the beam is 2 meters (this could either be a cone or a cylinder).
in the case of the cylinder, 2 meters... approximately 6.6-7 feet wide beam... it's going to hit the people around you and they will move (so tightly packed crowd of 7 feet deep... people will normally be able to move... and since it should hit about 8-12 people in a tight packed crowd thats enough to get momentum going). The person who is unlucky enough to fall down well, i say that's the price you pay for being involved in a situation that necessitates crowd control and you are now SOL.
Limiters could be placed on the device to only allow say two 5 second bursts. (1st burst to force the crowd to disperse... 2nd burst as a defensive precaution or if extra is needed in another area). Some cool down time in between before the next busts are available. Allow the ability to switch to a continuous beam (this switch would be monitored, and naturally you're going to have to explain your choice to a superior as to why you needed continuous fire... unruly crowd fighting back, firearms in use, etc.)
I expect this would be best used sweeping left to right and once the crowd got moving the question for continued use arises. The article mentions that the maximum time being able to stand still was 5 seconds under concentrated fire. This implies that at some interval past 5 seconds the pain *should* be constant... again it's shock and awe...
Microsoft is clearly on the cutting edge of innovation as per their recent dealings with Novell.
I predict their next "innovation" to be along the lines of a new open source operating system... MS-UX (pronounced "M SUCKS").
let the IP lawsuits ensue.
I would have to agree here in full. I have dated a high school teacher who deals with teenagers on a very regular basis and periodically meets with parents.
On one hand we have the students that act up and know they've done something wrong and through some reasoning you can tell they know the difference between right and wrong. The parents tend to inquire about their behavior and independent of their skill as a parent will lay blame with the child (the implication is that these parents have at least some governing influence on the child's life). The parent is not perfect, neither is the child, and both are aware of these subtleties.
On the other hand we have students that act up is perfectly fine, they're aware its rude but disregard the action and never really seem to engage a sense of guilt. Their behavior is quite possibly a byproduct of their upbringing. Parents hold themselves infallible and consequently their child inherits this trait of infallibility. Parents will then place blame with course difficulty, teacher's experience, overall curriculum, or invest belief in some mental disorder that may or may not be present; then the masses of these people get pro-active and change the mediating factors that prevent their child from reaching success.
The proof lies in the pudding for this one... if anyone is in their mid 20s and remembers block scheduling highschool geometry classes... you probably got some construction paper and crayons and didn't do any real mathematics until AP calc or college.
I recently graduated from NJIT with a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Applied Mathematics. The fundamental courses were 3 semesters of Calc(I/II/II). Probability & Statistics, Discrete Analysis, Differential Equations as per the engineering requirements and enforce formal thought (except maybe discrete, that is considerably more out of the box).
One of the most important courses I took was Linear Algebra. Dealing with matrices is fundamental... but more to the point: anyone even considering graphic theory needs linear algebra. OpenGL models / graphing simulations rely heavily on constructing matrices and working with them to represent 3D images in a 2D world.
Another class that provides some very deep insight is Numerical Methods. This study of mathematics requires some programming knowledge to automate error analysis (particularly the big question is always: You all have an answer to a set of problems, but just how accurate is your answer and within what bounds? 10^-6... 8?). The class also provides insight and formulas for detecting propogation of errors. Any computer scienctist is going to deal with computational math and at some point you will goto another research or a project lead and they will ask "are your results correct?"; You will comfortable with your results, given some background to know that they are correct.
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These audits don't normally come to light over a popular issue. The patriot act had been declining in popularity (and consequently usefulness as an excuse to gather information). Is this perhaps a foreboding of things to come? Maybe public sentiment sent waves through federal government and the yield is a federal audit that culminates into the patriot act being revoked? One hand washes another, no arrests are made, no harm no foul. Could it be that some FBI agents will act as a scapegoat and the federal government leverages this unauthorized use as their good deed for the quarter to instill trust in the populace once more?
I think that in context of the study we are not talking about music as the definitive 'get to know you' conversation. The study wanted pairs to get to know each other for 6 weeks, so I expect the leading conversation starter to be music because it is an easy going topic. There is a small amount of social etiquette involved with your standard bar or party and taking a casual conversation in stride and not losing the other person's interest. The conversation is expected to gauge reactions from both people without providing too much information all at once (IF you are both interested in each other and the music conversation works, you may move onto another topic and learn another facet of that person's personality). In the rap scenario you imply that both people want to make the conversation work so they overlook the details of the conversation. Ulterior motives aside, I would have to say that those two people will continue to neglect details until conversation comes to a head into an argument or you no longer find the other person interesting and realize that one or both of you aren't compatible in the simplest of conversations. On the flip side: you can't reasonably expect to walk into a bar/pub environment (sake of argument/social gathering) and start spouting theories on mathematics and get as far as you would at say, an engineering convention. A previous girlfriend of mine happened to be a mathematics major (and myself a minor), so we actually managed to talk mathematical theories from time to time and found the conversations interesting... the catch? music was one of the earlier topics, once we exhausted that we used education and things went pretty smooth... i think that by talking about music you just get a very general feel for the other person... but I agree that although the information is inconclusive... it is a great introductory conversation.
Strangely enough, the girlfriend can no longer be seen entering via the turbolift.
On a completely unrelated note: what happens to the room when he puts in any Star Wars DVD?
Red Flag Fork: Linux for Commies --- In Soviet Russia, Linux Codes You!
2007 with Microsoft/Novell SuSE could yield: MS-UX (pronounced "M SUCKS")
I can't answer the competition question for you (I myself use my iPod nearly all day. office/headphones commute/car-stereo connection and then home/stereo connection).
it's difficult not to find what you are looking for in the iTunes store. Granted, underground style music is not going to be available, but there are things that arn't necessarily mainstream available as well. You can download iTunes and check for yourself (without having to own an iPod). There is no cost (I believe they may require a paypal account at the minimum in order to access the store, but that's only to limit entry to potentially paying customers). One could easily just set up an account, browse, and never pay)
There were other arrests made here, so let's review:
- Suspects carrying potential ingredients for creating explosives
- Raul is one of many (one potential ingredient)
- was not carrying a bomb per-se
- Raul is however suspect in other outstanding cases
Raul was found not guilty on terrorist charges which (IANAL) are inconclusive as he was tried seperate from the `other ingredients` in this particular event. Would Raul have been able to assemble a bomb if he had the possessions of each of the other suspects (known suspects or not) on that particular flight? Pakistan should have allowed the suspect to be extradited to the UK for trial both for the 2002 murder case and in conjunction with the other suspects arrested in the plane threat to be taken in as a whole and not one part.I agree with you, but although we, as individual developers influence where the open source movement can go, much of our support is driven by business, and much of the publicitly we have received is because of [big business] finding gems in open source and linux that fit their business-model. Big business also needs support... and as one post touches on, one day, Microsoft wages a legal suit against your Linux vendor and bleeds your vendor dry. Justified or not this is going to be a costly fight and financially in the favor of Microsoft... they can drag out litigation and end your vendor support forcing your company to make a 'new choice' (which could very likely be right into Microsoft & Novell/SuSE hands).
when i said monitoring i meant simply that the device itself will maintain a record that it was switched into it's continuous mode. Whatever we do with that information, we do. The cameras and microphones on the police cars being turned off; the fact of the matter is someone knows the device was disabled, leave it to the court to decide the shady business... well that helps out in the small cases. Use your PBA card when you get pulled over (whether it was warranted or not) and they'll turn off the mic to ask you about it... granted, if you are *really* in the wrong, you will receive a fine. I don't have faith in my law making government... local and state authorities I fully respect though. I believe that there will be someone in the crowd who will make some noise regarding this kind of an action (of say using 'more than standard' force).... and I'm damn sure the chief is going to come in and say "what were you thinking, was that necessary?"... then we leave it to our legal system.
The range on the weapon is 500 meters. Proper use would dictate that you are not within striking range of the crowd to begin with... that's not overly realistic so let's say you can be fairly close. The burst mode I imagined would be under ideal circumstances. This is a mob I am talking about and a mob is a weapon just as much as this device is. The crowd is going to be angry and let's say they do rush you... a switch on the side of the gun takes only a flick of the finger to activate and then you show the few who decided it would be a good idea to rush you a thing or two in "maximum force". That's kind of how things work: If you're going easy on someone in a fight and they keep coming, it's time to change your tactic.
I fully support using this on a rioting mob with the dial turned all the way up. There's always a margin of error and someone is always in the wrong place at the wrong time but hey, that's the breaks; people need to learn to accept that sometimes sh*t happens. I would place more emphasis on keeping the infrastructure in tact than worrying about trampling deaths. Angry mobs will burn cities (can anybody name a few back in the 60s?)
it wouldn't block the full beam. the front row (if used from front to back) would have greater area of exposure with the same "need to flee" affect. as they're struggling or moving and exposing portions of the body next to them (remember, 7 foot spread on this beam)... it's going to connect with portions of skin/body all around them and penetrate. I would tend to agree with you, but I would also say that if the weapon is being used from a safe (to the operator) distance, they will be able to use this weapon objectively and not just dump continuous strains of pain onto 12 people.
the opportune word here is peaceably. I'll go out on a limb and say that we're using this as a weapon. A mob IS a weapon when they are no longer peaceably assembled.
in the case of the cylinder, 2 meters... approximately 6.6-7 feet wide beam... it's going to hit the people around you and they will move (so tightly packed crowd of 7 feet deep... people will normally be able to move... and since it should hit about 8-12 people in a tight packed crowd thats enough to get momentum going). The person who is unlucky enough to fall down well, i say that's the price you pay for being involved in a situation that necessitates crowd control and you are now SOL.
Limiters could be placed on the device to only allow say two 5 second bursts. (1st burst to force the crowd to disperse... 2nd burst as a defensive precaution or if extra is needed in another area). Some cool down time in between before the next busts are available. Allow the ability to switch to a continuous beam (this switch would be monitored, and naturally you're going to have to explain your choice to a superior as to why you needed continuous fire... unruly crowd fighting back, firearms in use, etc.)
I expect this would be best used sweeping left to right and once the crowd got moving the question for continued use arises. The article mentions that the maximum time being able to stand still was 5 seconds under concentrated fire. This implies that at some interval past 5 seconds the pain *should* be constant... again it's shock and awe...All of that is fine but after checking that your name is Bob Smith... your new score on the chart is about 5/100.
Microsoft is clearly on the cutting edge of innovation as per their recent dealings with Novell. I predict their next "innovation" to be along the lines of a new open source operating system... MS-UX (pronounced "M SUCKS"). let the IP lawsuits ensue.
I would have to agree here in full. I have dated a high school teacher who deals with teenagers on a very regular basis and periodically meets with parents. On one hand we have the students that act up and know they've done something wrong and through some reasoning you can tell they know the difference between right and wrong. The parents tend to inquire about their behavior and independent of their skill as a parent will lay blame with the child (the implication is that these parents have at least some governing influence on the child's life). The parent is not perfect, neither is the child, and both are aware of these subtleties. On the other hand we have students that act up is perfectly fine, they're aware its rude but disregard the action and never really seem to engage a sense of guilt. Their behavior is quite possibly a byproduct of their upbringing. Parents hold themselves infallible and consequently their child inherits this trait of infallibility. Parents will then place blame with course difficulty, teacher's experience, overall curriculum, or invest belief in some mental disorder that may or may not be present; then the masses of these people get pro-active and change the mediating factors that prevent their child from reaching success. The proof lies in the pudding for this one... if anyone is in their mid 20s and remembers block scheduling highschool geometry classes... you probably got some construction paper and crayons and didn't do any real mathematics until AP calc or college.
EMP grenades are always the most underestimated type of weapon.
I recently graduated from NJIT with a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Applied Mathematics. The fundamental courses were 3 semesters of Calc(I/II/II). Probability & Statistics, Discrete Analysis, Differential Equations as per the engineering requirements and enforce formal thought (except maybe discrete, that is considerably more out of the box). One of the most important courses I took was Linear Algebra. Dealing with matrices is fundamental... but more to the point: anyone even considering graphic theory needs linear algebra. OpenGL models / graphing simulations rely heavily on constructing matrices and working with them to represent 3D images in a 2D world. Another class that provides some very deep insight is Numerical Methods. This study of mathematics requires some programming knowledge to automate error analysis (particularly the big question is always: You all have an answer to a set of problems, but just how accurate is your answer and within what bounds? 10^-6 ... 8?). The class also provides insight and formulas for detecting propogation of errors. Any computer scienctist is going to deal with computational math and at some point you will goto another research or a project lead and they will ask "are your results correct?"; You will comfortable with your results, given some background to know that they are correct.