Is it just me, or doesn't it seem odd that all the pictures posted had some sort of detection in them...as if....these were....TRAINING images?
Why would Gizmodo pick 100 out of supposedly 35,000 that all had something fishy going on in them (highlighted by the blue alarm detection graphic), other than to guess that these are training images used to train the operators on how to use the machinery? Hey, but I don't train TSA employees on how to operate scanners for a living or anything, so whatever.
If somebody is jay-walking, they aren't legally crossing the street. By definition if jay-walking, they don't have the right of way. Still, it's dumb to say "that car has to stop because they have to", with the consequence of them not stopping being you are right, but you are dead.
The employer thing is different. We have the right to say things away from work, as long as they aren't slanderous/libelous/ or give away trade secrets. Our boss has no right to muzzle our thoughts and speech away from the workplace by using the threat of termination. That's a slippery slope that leads to employers telling us what kind of cars we can drive and what hobbies we can partake in and which political parties we should vote for. Screw that world-view.
Spoken like somebody who has never worked in Germany and England as well as the US (which I have). Get some perspective. Our system suck in the US, relatively speaking. We tolerate it because of our resounding lack of perspective.
Health care is fine, in fact, excellent, as long as you don't go to Dr. Bob's Illegal Corner Surgery or something. Costs are high, yes, but that's partially because of idiots abusing the system, and partially to help pay for the medical research and advancements that help the health care to be good enough to keep everyone living a long time despite the obesity and stupidity epidemics among the general populous.
Almost, but it's actually the doctors working with the insurance that makes it such a racket. For example, my wife had an L2 spinal fusion. The bill was $150,000, but since we had insurance, the bill was "negotiated" to $70,000. So because Insurance Company pats Surgeon's back, and vice-versa, they can just arbitrarily drop $80k off the price of surgery. Niiiiiiiiiice.
It illegal under HIPPA to require anybody to disclose their medical situation to anybody else for any reason. I'm willing to bet your employer has no legal basis for requiring a doctor's note.
They can NOT contact a doctor to verify, because the doctor can NOT legally be required to tell you anything about the medical condition of the patient.
Dude, the FMLA in the US sucks. We seriously considered moving to Canada for that very reason. 6-weeks versus 52 weeks of paid leave. AND...FMLA is insurance that everyone pays into with every pay check, so it's not just a hand out. It should be much longer than it is, considering it isn't the burden to the employer that everyone wants to make it out to be (insurance company pays the wages, not the employer.)
OSHA sucks and is a good idea run amok by incompetent people seeking to save their own jobs.
$5,000 for the wrong shade of yellow on an elevator gate. $15,000 for a lawn mower on the receiving bay of a department store (forget the fact the lawn mower had no oil or gas in it and was less of a fire hazard than the billion cardboard boxes laying around). Yes, anecdotal, but they are MY anecdotes, damnit.
Or the worst OSHA offense I've been a part of...fining the Army for unsafe infractions....errr, first of all, you are suing yourself, and second of all, the Army is a dangerous profession, by definition.
But the truth of the matter is that there are solid, logical, economic theories supporting the idea of eliminating social welfare (or at least reducing it by HUGE amounts). Talk to any unbiased economist who has learned the theory (I am not an economist).
Talk to an economist about social issues...right. Perhaps the economic policies are what are causing the sociological problems?
Talk to any sociologist and they'll tell you there are theories that prove that eliminating social welfare causes more crime and greater social upheaval.
The key is getting the right balance of taking care of society, and helping members of society learn to take care of themselves.
I think the problem with the economic and sociology theories is people confuse "eliminating minimum wage to stimulate higher wages all around" (an economics theory) with "take single mom with three kids' food stamps away and make her EARN it" (a sociology theory...well, an insensitive one, but still one).
How sad it must be to live in a country with such a narrowminded selfish culture
Uhhh, it's a big country. Blanket statements don't fit. I lived in England, and maybe it works there, but you can't pinpoint a single "culture" in the US.
Yes, we have stupid people. Yes, capitalism brings out the greediest bastards in society. No, we don't all agree with it just because we are American.
Funny, if you make this same claim about what constitutes censorship, the slashdot hordes will claim ANYTHING is censorship, not just that which comes from the government.
I've lost track of how many times I've said "Apple doesn't censor anything, because they are not the US Government" only to be lectured that censorship isn't limited to the government.
I was just saying that if the doors reacted immediately to the press, regardless if you pressed it at 1 second or 1.5 seconds, and it closes on its own after 10 seconds, logic states that the button press caused the door to close the times it was pressed at 1 or 1.5 seconds. (or 3 , or 5, or 4.75, as long as it was always in immediate response, and always before 10 seconds).
I'm wondering where all these people are who you claim want free health care. Judging the current political waters, seems like most people are against it.
Every company runs job ads they know they won't fill (because they don't want to fill them, but are required to meet some mythical HR quota to appeal to the stockholders about "growth" or some nonsense).
Well, that's what I meant. This is done with Apple's blessing. I heard it directly from an Air Packager Developers mouth. For whatever PR/marketing reason, Jobs is hell bent on not allowing Flash Player browser plugin, but doesn't mind flash content via AIR.
Well, let me rephrase. You can play any of your Flash content on iOS, even if it isn't being played as "Flash", yet the common belief is that no Flash can be played on any iOS device. This is important to those of us in the e-learning business with thousands of hours of existing Flash training courseware that can now run on an iPad without doing anything other than republishing our.fla source file. This was previously considered unpossible.
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Is it just me, or doesn't it seem odd that all the pictures posted had some sort of detection in them...as if....these were....TRAINING images?
Why would Gizmodo pick 100 out of supposedly 35,000 that all had something fishy going on in them (highlighted by the blue alarm detection graphic), other than to guess that these are training images used to train the operators on how to use the machinery? Hey, but I don't train TSA employees on how to operate scanners for a living or anything, so whatever.
Wait now, how are you going to give more money to schools when these people want to actually eliminate the Department of Education!
Oops, my bad, Medicare. But hey, let's not let facts get in the way of a good ignorant argument!
Get your government hands off my medicaid!
Entitlements for OTHER people are what have to go, not MY entitlements!
(and before I get modded troll again, this post is SARCASM)
I like I got modded troll for posting something I strongly disagree with and slashdot took that as something I agree with....sigh.
If somebody is jay-walking, they aren't legally crossing the street. By definition if jay-walking, they don't have the right of way. Still, it's dumb to say "that car has to stop because they have to", with the consequence of them not stopping being you are right, but you are dead.
The employer thing is different. We have the right to say things away from work, as long as they aren't slanderous/libelous/ or give away trade secrets. Our boss has no right to muzzle our thoughts and speech away from the workplace by using the threat of termination. That's a slippery slope that leads to employers telling us what kind of cars we can drive and what hobbies we can partake in and which political parties we should vote for. Screw that world-view.
[Seriously, he best article on a worker dismissal] in Connecticut is an Indonesian news source?
Yes. Any US journalist would have been fired for writing about it.
Spoken like somebody who has never worked in Germany and England as well as the US (which I have). Get some perspective. Our system suck in the US, relatively speaking. We tolerate it because of our resounding lack of perspective.
Health care is fine, in fact, excellent, as long as you don't go to Dr. Bob's Illegal Corner Surgery or something. Costs are high, yes, but that's partially because of idiots abusing the system, and partially to help pay for the medical research and advancements that help the health care to be good enough to keep everyone living a long time despite the obesity and stupidity epidemics among the general populous.
Almost, but it's actually the doctors working with the insurance that makes it such a racket. For example, my wife had an L2 spinal fusion. The bill was $150,000, but since we had insurance, the bill was "negotiated" to $70,000. So because Insurance Company pats Surgeon's back, and vice-versa, they can just arbitrarily drop $80k off the price of surgery. Niiiiiiiiiice.
It illegal under HIPPA to require anybody to disclose their medical situation to anybody else for any reason. I'm willing to bet your employer has no legal basis for requiring a doctor's note.
They can NOT contact a doctor to verify, because the doctor can NOT legally be required to tell you anything about the medical condition of the patient.
Dude, the FMLA in the US sucks. We seriously considered moving to Canada for that very reason. 6-weeks versus 52 weeks of paid leave. AND...FMLA is insurance that everyone pays into with every pay check, so it's not just a hand out. It should be much longer than it is, considering it isn't the burden to the employer that everyone wants to make it out to be (insurance company pays the wages, not the employer.)
OSHA sucks and is a good idea run amok by incompetent people seeking to save their own jobs.
$5,000 for the wrong shade of yellow on an elevator gate. $15,000 for a lawn mower on the receiving bay of a department store (forget the fact the lawn mower had no oil or gas in it and was less of a fire hazard than the billion cardboard boxes laying around). Yes, anecdotal, but they are MY anecdotes, damnit.
Or the worst OSHA offense I've been a part of...fining the Army for unsafe infractions....errr, first of all, you are suing yourself, and second of all, the Army is a dangerous profession, by definition.
But the truth of the matter is that there are solid, logical, economic theories supporting the idea of eliminating social welfare (or at least reducing it by HUGE amounts). Talk to any unbiased economist who has learned the theory (I am not an economist).
Talk to an economist about social issues...right. Perhaps the economic policies are what are causing the sociological problems?
Talk to any sociologist and they'll tell you there are theories that prove that eliminating social welfare causes more crime and greater social upheaval.
The key is getting the right balance of taking care of society, and helping members of society learn to take care of themselves.
I think the problem with the economic and sociology theories is people confuse "eliminating minimum wage to stimulate higher wages all around" (an economics theory) with "take single mom with three kids' food stamps away and make her EARN it" (a sociology theory...well, an insensitive one, but still one).
How sad it must be to live in a country with such a narrowminded selfish culture
Uhhh, it's a big country. Blanket statements don't fit. I lived in England, and maybe it works there, but you can't pinpoint a single "culture" in the US.
Yes, we have stupid people. Yes, capitalism brings out the greediest bastards in society. No, we don't all agree with it just because we are American.
Otherwise, very nice post you made.
Exactly. If I hung a poster on my house that said "My Boss Sucks", is that really any different than me posting "My Boss Sucks" as my Facebook status?
The medium is different, but the message is the same (and should be treated, i.e. protected, the same).
No, but if Karl Rove worked at my work and then said he votes Republican, my work can't fire him for that.
Funny, if you make this same claim about what constitutes censorship, the slashdot hordes will claim ANYTHING is censorship, not just that which comes from the government.
I've lost track of how many times I've said "Apple doesn't censor anything, because they are not the US Government" only to be lectured that censorship isn't limited to the government.
So which is it, slashdot?
Hint: we regulate these so called "private relationships" through labor laws. Without them, the boss does all the trashing.
I was just saying that if the doors reacted immediately to the press, regardless if you pressed it at 1 second or 1.5 seconds, and it closes on its own after 10 seconds, logic states that the button press caused the door to close the times it was pressed at 1 or 1.5 seconds. (or 3 , or 5, or 4.75, as long as it was always in immediate response, and always before 10 seconds).
Unless the doors respond immediately every time to his pressing the "close" button regardless of the timing of his press.
when the elevator is in service mode (i.e. apartment move mode), then doors stay open until you press the close button.
I love it when there is more to the story than a snarky slashdot editor thinks.
Nice post!
I'm wondering where all these people are who you claim want free health care. Judging the current political waters, seems like most people are against it.
Every company runs job ads they know they won't fill (because they don't want to fill them, but are required to meet some mythical HR quota to appeal to the stockholders about "growth" or some nonsense).
Well, that's what I meant. This is done with Apple's blessing. I heard it directly from an Air Packager Developers mouth. For whatever PR/marketing reason, Jobs is hell bent on not allowing Flash Player browser plugin, but doesn't mind flash content via AIR.
Well, let me rephrase. You can play any of your Flash content on iOS, even if it isn't being played as "Flash", yet the common belief is that no Flash can be played on any iOS device. This is important to those of us in the e-learning business with thousands of hours of existing Flash training courseware that can now run on an iPad without doing anything other than republishing our .fla source file. This was previously considered unpossible.