Well I haven't left my current employer but I recently moved a Heck of a lot closer and if you have a family or any kind of life outside of work that's important to you, do it. 1.5 hours a day is about what i saved and it adds up a ton! My life outside of work is so much better now, and that's the reason we should be working right?
No, to your question, it was exactly what he said, you fit the description of someone they were looking for. Probably someone that just committed some type of violent crime in the area. Either that or your civil rights were violated by the officer. But if he were violating your rights he would have known it at would almost definitely not have stopped at taking your picture for the case file. The picture was most likely for if you decided to sue or claim that your rights had been violated, the officer could produce the picture along with the case regarding the person who you looked like and say, "your honor, it was reasonable for me to pull this man over because he fit the description of the carjacker, rapist, circle-k robber, etc. in these ways..."
I'm a cop and this is what my motivation would have been for taking your picture at the end of a stop like that.
This only allows prediction based on past crimes that are known to Law Enforcement. That means the successful criminals who commit crimes without them being noticed (like crimes that no one reports, drug dealing, prostitution, etc) will have even less of a chance of having police run across them.
All you would really have to do is "report" crimes in the other areas... "My car stereo was stolen on tuesday at 10:00 on the corner of X and Y" if these were in fact false, that would be feeding the computer false info, you just let the agency feed your info for you, no hacking needed and no paying street kids either.
Maybe you were frustrated because you are a programmer. From the basic information you provided about your experience that cause is as good as the other. But I do agree that it was really hard to use it was ALMOST intuitive and that is way more frustrating that knowing that you have to read a huge book to get it. The idea that the designer apparently thought it could just be figured out and didn't provide the kind of resources you'd really need.
Does it say that he was arrested FOR being the spokesman? No, even in TFS it's clear that spokesmanship is not the reason for his arrest. If you want to know why, then RTFA.
I agree, is there some type of medical training for searching people? Or kids? I doubt it. Before I go any further, TSA do not qualify as Law Enforcement to me but... Law Enforcement officers undergo fairly sophisticated training for doing complete searches that don't have sexual overtones. So I would say that a cop would be a better choice than a Doctor, Just cause a Dr. is a Dr. doesn't mean you won't feel violated when they touch you, especially if it's not your doctor.
a LiveCD, this means a CD which will boot you to a usable operating system. You can poke around without installing anything or messing up your computer. If you find it interesting give a bunch of them a try to see just how different the experience can be.
If that's true it scares me out of my mind. I always think of flash like a 12 year old boy driving a bulldozer around a giant sandbox with holes in all the walls. I like to think of the browser it's running in as another giant sandbox with slightly less holes in all the walls. Every once in a while (all the time) that damn kid finds his way out of BOTH sandboxes and starts driving around the streets of some highly populated town wreaking destruction. And if what parent is saying is true are we taking one of the perimeter walls totally down? OH GOD!
We need a tracking system which uses webcams to see if you 1. go to TFA page and 2. move your eyes systematically as if you're reading the entire article. Then posts by those people that pass the tracking should be automatically highlighted.
Why it's not Ok to show sexual images (people loving each other) but it's alright to show people killing each other to kids. To me this is a basic problem in the way our society views "objectionable" material. When I was in high school, teachers could show movies that were rated R for violence but not for love scenes... I think the video game makers can make whatever they want, I just don't want the 19 year old cashier at gamestop selling GTA 27 to my kid when he's 14-15 and out with his friends. So again... in light of this ruling, what makes it OK to have laws prohibiting the sale of porn to kids?
This would then open the door for kids to be able to go into any movie they want without parental permission... Or buy porn... I don't know if I agree with this one. It's just one case citation away from unknowingly exposing kids to all the other "media" restricted to adults.
cops know and most do care, unfortunately one bad cop makes the news and thousands of good ones don't. I knew an IT guy who turned out to be a pedophile, doesn't make all IT guys pedophiles though.
what about attacking private farmers and driving them out of business under the guise of "scientific experimentation"? BTW I know nothing about this situation, or the key players but I think passing judgement so quickly and so harshly reminds me of something I read in junior high, oh yeah, Animal Farm.
It is a feature of Firefox/Chrome, not of Linux fyi. The other point is, IT'S AN EMULATOR WRITTEN IN A SCRIPT LANGUAGE! It's not about running Linux in a browser only, I'm sure that's been done in Java and other languages already.
Then everyone will be bitching about their smartphones costing $3000. Sorry, human rights don't mean jack to someone half a world away standing in a verizon/ATT store. Tell me with 100% certainty that nothing on the computer you posted on was made by people in a similar or worse situation. For that matter, how about your clothes, your watch, your sports equipment, tools, electronics in your car, the elevator in the last hotel you stayed at. Sorry but when it comes to a choice between an individual's comfort and taking one drop out of the ocean of bad labor conditions in the world, people choose comfort/convenience, yourself included.
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Well I haven't left my current employer but I recently moved a Heck of a lot closer and if you have a family or any kind of life outside of work that's important to you, do it. 1.5 hours a day is about what i saved and it adds up a ton! My life outside of work is so much better now, and that's the reason we should be working right?
how I wish I had mod points. Well played sir!
I think the first year oughta be $2 and then from that point on the function should be lastYearsFee^2
I'll give you $0.50 /share
we assume that aliens who would be able to cross space are more technically advanced than us since we have not mastered that technology yet.
FTFY
No, to your question, it was exactly what he said, you fit the description of someone they were looking for. Probably someone that just committed some type of violent crime in the area. Either that or your civil rights were violated by the officer. But if he were violating your rights he would have known it at would almost definitely not have stopped at taking your picture for the case file. The picture was most likely for if you decided to sue or claim that your rights had been violated, the officer could produce the picture along with the case regarding the person who you looked like and say, "your honor, it was reasonable for me to pull this man over because he fit the description of the carjacker, rapist, circle-k robber, etc. in these ways..."
I'm a cop and this is what my motivation would have been for taking your picture at the end of a stop like that.
This only allows prediction based on past crimes that are known to Law Enforcement. That means the successful criminals who commit crimes without them being noticed (like crimes that no one reports, drug dealing, prostitution, etc) will have even less of a chance of having police run across them.
All you would really have to do is "report" crimes in the other areas... "My car stereo was stolen on tuesday at 10:00 on the corner of X and Y" if these were in fact false, that would be feeding the computer false info, you just let the agency feed your info for you, no hacking needed and no paying street kids either.
Maybe you were frustrated because you are a programmer. From the basic information you provided about your experience that cause is as good as the other. But I do agree that it was really hard to use it was ALMOST intuitive and that is way more frustrating that knowing that you have to read a huge book to get it. The idea that the designer apparently thought it could just be figured out and didn't provide the kind of resources you'd really need.
I am destroying all the turing machines within my immediate control starting after I'm done browsing slashdot for a while.
Exactly. The inflation becomes a tax on anyone holding currency.
finally a tax that won't be a problem for me...I found the "have no currency" loophole
Does it say that he was arrested FOR being the spokesman? No, even in TFS it's clear that spokesmanship is not the reason for his arrest. If you want to know why, then RTFA.
I agree, is there some type of medical training for searching people? Or kids? I doubt it. Before I go any further, TSA do not qualify as Law Enforcement to me but... Law Enforcement officers undergo fairly sophisticated training for doing complete searches that don't have sexual overtones. So I would say that a cop would be a better choice than a Doctor, Just cause a Dr. is a Dr. doesn't mean you won't feel violated when they touch you, especially if it's not your doctor.
a LiveCD, this means a CD which will boot you to a usable operating system. You can poke around without installing anything or messing up your computer. If you find it interesting give a bunch of them a try to see just how different the experience can be.
If that's true it scares me out of my mind. I always think of flash like a 12 year old boy driving a bulldozer around a giant sandbox with holes in all the walls. I like to think of the browser it's running in as another giant sandbox with slightly less holes in all the walls. Every once in a while (all the time) that damn kid finds his way out of BOTH sandboxes and starts driving around the streets of some highly populated town wreaking destruction. And if what parent is saying is true are we taking one of the perimeter walls totally down? OH GOD!
We need a tracking system which uses webcams to see if you 1. go to TFA page and 2. move your eyes systematically as if you're reading the entire article. Then posts by those people that pass the tracking should be automatically highlighted.
Why it's not Ok to show sexual images (people loving each other) but it's alright to show people killing each other to kids. To me this is a basic problem in the way our society views "objectionable" material. When I was in high school, teachers could show movies that were rated R for violence but not for love scenes... I think the video game makers can make whatever they want, I just don't want the 19 year old cashier at gamestop selling GTA 27 to my kid when he's 14-15 and out with his friends. So again... in light of this ruling, what makes it OK to have laws prohibiting the sale of porn to kids?
This would then open the door for kids to be able to go into any movie they want without parental permission... Or buy porn... I don't know if I agree with this one. It's just one case citation away from unknowingly exposing kids to all the other "media" restricted to adults.
but until then he's still in Jail, you know how long it takes something to go to trial? at MINIMUM 1-2 years.
cops know and most do care, unfortunately one bad cop makes the news and thousands of good ones don't. I knew an IT guy who turned out to be a pedophile, doesn't make all IT guys pedophiles though.
what about attacking private farmers and driving them out of business under the guise of "scientific experimentation"? BTW I know nothing about this situation, or the key players but I think passing judgement so quickly and so harshly reminds me of something I read in junior high, oh yeah, Animal Farm.
Considering that most previous "jetpacks" used "rockets" instead of "jets" I think this one is closer to a jetpack than the rest IMO.
almost 5? uh... ok
It is a feature of Firefox/Chrome, not of Linux fyi. The other point is, IT'S AN EMULATOR WRITTEN IN A SCRIPT LANGUAGE! It's not about running Linux in a browser only, I'm sure that's been done in Java and other languages already.
Then everyone will be bitching about their smartphones costing $3000. Sorry, human rights don't mean jack to someone half a world away standing in a verizon/ATT store. Tell me with 100% certainty that nothing on the computer you posted on was made by people in a similar or worse situation. For that matter, how about your clothes, your watch, your sports equipment, tools, electronics in your car, the elevator in the last hotel you stayed at. Sorry but when it comes to a choice between an individual's comfort and taking one drop out of the ocean of bad labor conditions in the world, people choose comfort/convenience, yourself included.