I don't see how that follows at all from my post, but I'll reply anyway.
The information gathered by existing cameras of regular passers-by and businesses are generally not aggregatable, and the identity of the people recorded is not certain or easily findable. The people recorded are, for all intents and purposes, anonymous. However, each individual with a recording has a piece of the puzzle they can contribute if all of a sudden information about a place & time becomes important, some more so than others if they were close to the scene or got a better view of what happened.
The implicit anonymity of involvement in public goings on, until something big breaks and all these pieces are voluntarily aggregated, is something that reasonably protects privacy and does not place comprehensive detailed information about individuals in the hands of those who can wreck lives (or anyone else for that matter). It's still exploitable in very rare edge cases, but in the vast majority of the times the anonymity holds.
I believe this is a good model for the legal system to encourage. Heck, it's also a ton cheaper for them to simply aggregate supplied recordings when things really happen, than to install and maintain more Big Brother presence, but funneling money seems to be more of a goal than saving money in these sorts of matters.
Actually, pirates have actively benefited from it, in their own little world. A game with no DRM is a ho-hum release, but whoever can ship the earliest and most comprehensive stable release gets major props. Without DRM, there'd be no competitive spirit in the pirate world.
Of course, there are then spam/ad site owners who try to monetize on the reputation of certain pirate groups. 99.9% of game pirate groups do not try to pull in any money from their work, claiming either players should purchase the games for themselves and support the creators, or that games should be free. There's interesting social dynamics in that whole world, but more interesting to this discussion is that it all exists due to DRM.
I was always told that engineering is a skill set that leads to easy employment, if you can make it through college. Turns out that was wildly inaccurate.
Or, it was accurate, but past performance is not an indicator of future performance.
From my experience, the cultures from east Europe/Russia cannot abstract or design. As a general stereotype, they're very good at making something quickly but locked down and optimized. You're out of luck getting something maintainable, flexible, or in line with modern hardware/software architecture from there.
That said, on average my experience with them has been better than Indian staff as you say.
(Of course, for the stupidly oversensitive PC morons, generalized experience and stereotypes do not blanketly apply to any particular individual.)
State universities' budgets have been increasing in "administrative" costs far beyond any other increase, uncorrelated to curriculum or facility expansion. That move is undeniably sponging income from increased loan amounts.
If universities were hurting from reduced subsidies, then their internal expenditures would not have risen in line with loan increases.
There's also a shortage of accomplished, senior STEM workers who can replace outgoing retirees and be brought on to expand teams. This is the effect of these same issues.
This is exactly how they attack our freedoms and liberties, by provoking governments to overreact. The deaths and property damage really don't factor in to the terrorists' agenda otherwise. There's documented Al Qaeda plans going over these lines of thought. (I'm not saying the Boston bombers had anything to do with AQ, but many terrorists aren't dumb enough to not have thought this through.)
because of cell phone and building security cameras.
Exactly. We don't need government cameras consolidating every detail of everybody's lives together, and selectively judging what gets acted on. We simply need the people to have these recordings. Plus, add dashcams to the list. Those are great.
The desperate attempt to eliminate judgment for policy makes it such that everybody is committing some form of crime. Accidentally bump into somebody? Assault. Scratch your balls? Public indecency, potentially in view of a minor.
You really want your regular, thoughtless daily activity recorded and scrutinized under threat of law? Sure, nobody's going to be monitoring these behaviors 24/7 (yet, until it's automated), but what happens if you get a speeding ticket? One of your "friends" does something stupid and gets arrested? Apply selective enforcement and now you're the scapegoat nailed to the wall so the "public servants" can go home earlier.
People have their own reasons to not have their personal shopping, entertainment, travel, schedule, or companions available for all to see. It is within their privacy rights to demand continuance of that expectation.
Cameras do not just track criminals, they track and record everybody. Granting government omniscience in the attempt to prevent (to use TFA's term) crime is deluded, and granting it to punish crime is too overreaching.
Police officers make judgments on the immediate situations, and don't retain all the individual private details they happen to come upon. Camera records are held in perpetuity.
Plus, cameras don't prevent anything. Human presence does.
What you're talking about isn't in the public domain. It's in the hands of multiple private individuals who present the evidence of their own volition.
The problem with a single party having all control of information is that they only use it to protect themselves, and indict others. For instance, police officers have dash cams installed in their vehicles. Often when the officer is accused of doing something wrong, well gee we couldn't find that recording, or it's been overwritten, etc. But if you did something wrong on dashcam, well you can be guaranteed that it'll be retained intact.
If many individuals maintain the information, then things come out on principle. This happened both in the Boston case and yours.
The iPad was actually able to lock in cheap component suppliers to give it a light form factor while still being powerful enough, and that was right before prices started to go up due to various factors. It really was the one time that Apple was able to undercut its competitors, as most everybody else was shipping $2,000 laptop-sized tablets.
I question any of the other "achievements" granted to Apple, but the iPad was the one real one.
2. The iPhone is the right width for the human hand. Any larger and you need two hands to use it. It's a phone, not a tablet.
Japanese gamers complained that the Playstation controller is too big. American gamers complained it's too small. What's this "the human hand" business about?
You do realize that with your support of a security state to try to prevent bombings, you also give support to major investigation of these types of threats of mass murder:
I used to be a nice person, but then I got turned onto slashdot. Now I wan't to kill you all.
The law disallows certain behaviors, regardless of technology empowering them. These scanners are unreasonable search of my person and effects. Traveling is not suspicious behavior.
Are the TSA just going to say "We have listened to your comments, and are continuing to pursue security theater^W practices as they best "serve" our country", or is there some sort of accountability set up for what the comments are saying?
It's nice to see that even right after the Boston bombing, the comments appear to still be 100% against AIT scanners.
And that "competition" is complete bunk. People don't care who has a story first. They go to their usual outlets, and the stories are reported there whenever the info reaches them. The reason they go to the sites or news stations/programs they do is because they prefer the coverage or style of reporting that's going on there.
Drones killing civilians is an accident; people thought there was a military target there.
The current definition of "military target" seems to include any and all civilians they wish to include. Civilians have been targeted, non-military vehicles (not knowing who is in them) have been targeted, etc.
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I don't see how that follows at all from my post, but I'll reply anyway.
The information gathered by existing cameras of regular passers-by and businesses are generally not aggregatable, and the identity of the people recorded is not certain or easily findable. The people recorded are, for all intents and purposes, anonymous. However, each individual with a recording has a piece of the puzzle they can contribute if all of a sudden information about a place & time becomes important, some more so than others if they were close to the scene or got a better view of what happened.
The implicit anonymity of involvement in public goings on, until something big breaks and all these pieces are voluntarily aggregated, is something that reasonably protects privacy and does not place comprehensive detailed information about individuals in the hands of those who can wreck lives (or anyone else for that matter). It's still exploitable in very rare edge cases, but in the vast majority of the times the anonymity holds.
I believe this is a good model for the legal system to encourage. Heck, it's also a ton cheaper for them to simply aggregate supplied recordings when things really happen, than to install and maintain more Big Brother presence, but funneling money seems to be more of a goal than saving money in these sorts of matters.
Actually, pirates have actively benefited from it, in their own little world. A game with no DRM is a ho-hum release, but whoever can ship the earliest and most comprehensive stable release gets major props. Without DRM, there'd be no competitive spirit in the pirate world.
Of course, there are then spam/ad site owners who try to monetize on the reputation of certain pirate groups. 99.9% of game pirate groups do not try to pull in any money from their work, claiming either players should purchase the games for themselves and support the creators, or that games should be free. There's interesting social dynamics in that whole world, but more interesting to this discussion is that it all exists due to DRM.
Here's a 3d-printing pen that you could probably mod to be gun-shaped.
I was always told that engineering is a skill set that leads to easy employment, if you can make it through college. Turns out that was wildly inaccurate.
Or, it was accurate, but past performance is not an indicator of future performance.
Read again what he said. These companies do not have access to "the best", regardless of where they come from.
From my experience, the cultures from east Europe/Russia cannot abstract or design. As a general stereotype, they're very good at making something quickly but locked down and optimized. You're out of luck getting something maintainable, flexible, or in line with modern hardware/software architecture from there.
That said, on average my experience with them has been better than Indian staff as you say.
(Of course, for the stupidly oversensitive PC morons, generalized experience and stereotypes do not blanketly apply to any particular individual.)
State universities' budgets have been increasing in "administrative" costs far beyond any other increase, uncorrelated to curriculum or facility expansion. That move is undeniably sponging income from increased loan amounts.
If universities were hurting from reduced subsidies, then their internal expenditures would not have risen in line with loan increases.
There's also a shortage of accomplished, senior STEM workers who can replace outgoing retirees and be brought on to expand teams. This is the effect of these same issues.
This is exactly how they attack our freedoms and liberties, by provoking governments to overreact. The deaths and property damage really don't factor in to the terrorists' agenda otherwise. There's documented Al Qaeda plans going over these lines of thought. (I'm not saying the Boston bombers had anything to do with AQ, but many terrorists aren't dumb enough to not have thought this through.)
because of cell phone and building security cameras.
Exactly. We don't need government cameras consolidating every detail of everybody's lives together, and selectively judging what gets acted on. We simply need the people to have these recordings. Plus, add dashcams to the list. Those are great.
And this is the means by which they expected and planned it to work, financial and social instability through government reactions to their attacks.
The desperate attempt to eliminate judgment for policy makes it such that everybody is committing some form of crime. Accidentally bump into somebody? Assault. Scratch your balls? Public indecency, potentially in view of a minor.
You really want your regular, thoughtless daily activity recorded and scrutinized under threat of law? Sure, nobody's going to be monitoring these behaviors 24/7 (yet, until it's automated), but what happens if you get a speeding ticket? One of your "friends" does something stupid and gets arrested? Apply selective enforcement and now you're the scapegoat nailed to the wall so the "public servants" can go home earlier.
People have their own reasons to not have their personal shopping, entertainment, travel, schedule, or companions available for all to see. It is within their privacy rights to demand continuance of that expectation.
Cameras do not just track criminals, they track and record everybody. Granting government omniscience in the attempt to prevent (to use TFA's term) crime is deluded, and granting it to punish crime is too overreaching.
Police officers make judgments on the immediate situations, and don't retain all the individual private details they happen to come upon. Camera records are held in perpetuity.
Plus, cameras don't prevent anything. Human presence does.
That "agency" should be the public at large.
What you're talking about isn't in the public domain. It's in the hands of multiple private individuals who present the evidence of their own volition.
The problem with a single party having all control of information is that they only use it to protect themselves, and indict others. For instance, police officers have dash cams installed in their vehicles. Often when the officer is accused of doing something wrong, well gee we couldn't find that recording, or it's been overwritten, etc. But if you did something wrong on dashcam, well you can be guaranteed that it'll be retained intact.
If many individuals maintain the information, then things come out on principle. This happened both in the Boston case and yours.
Adding to #2, because life "out there" is (or at least seems to be) an incredibly rare thing.
The iPad was actually able to lock in cheap component suppliers to give it a light form factor while still being powerful enough, and that was right before prices started to go up due to various factors. It really was the one time that Apple was able to undercut its competitors, as most everybody else was shipping $2,000 laptop-sized tablets.
I question any of the other "achievements" granted to Apple, but the iPad was the one real one.
2. The iPhone is the right width for the human hand. Any larger and you need two hands to use it. It's a phone, not a tablet.
Japanese gamers complained that the Playstation controller is too big. American gamers complained it's too small. What's this "the human hand" business about?
You do realize that with your support of a security state to try to prevent bombings, you also give support to major investigation of these types of threats of mass murder:
I used to be a nice person, but then I got turned onto slashdot. Now I wan't to kill you all.
The law disallows certain behaviors, regardless of technology empowering them. These scanners are unreasonable search of my person and effects. Traveling is not suspicious behavior.
Are the TSA just going to say "We have listened to your comments, and are continuing to pursue security theater^W practices as they best "serve" our country", or is there some sort of accountability set up for what the comments are saying?
It's nice to see that even right after the Boston bombing, the comments appear to still be 100% against AIT scanners.
And that "competition" is complete bunk. People don't care who has a story first. They go to their usual outlets, and the stories are reported there whenever the info reaches them. The reason they go to the sites or news stations/programs they do is because they prefer the coverage or style of reporting that's going on there.
This sort of stuff is available in most Common Lisp dev environments as well, though it's not standardized between implementations.
Drones killing civilians is an accident; people thought there was a military target there.
The current definition of "military target" seems to include any and all civilians they wish to include. Civilians have been targeted, non-military vehicles (not knowing who is in them) have been targeted, etc.