How would it look soft on crime to suggest that the 'winnings' should go to some higher governmental branch rather than straight to the police agency?
The only ones this might annoy would be the police themselves. It wouldn't take a PR genius to point out that the current system encourages the police to screw up their priorities.
Obviously, they have far less gun-related deaths because they have much less crime. That's a function of their culture.
This seems an oversimplification. If you quadrupled the unemployment rate in France, I'm sure you'd see an increase in crime.
You can't change culture with prohibition laws.
The civil rights and gay rights movements didn't start with law, they started with grassroots. You might be right about the specific topic of guns, though. I don't know of any significant cultural shifts regarding guns, to point to.
To be fair, lack of intelligence seems like a better candidate for a disability than obesity...
Depends on the job, no? Obesity isn't generally purely aesthetic.
If you want to hire someone to optimise your website back-end, intelligence counts for more than fitness. If you want to hire someone to shovel rubble, this is reversed.
(Not being obese doesn't necessarily make you strong, of course, but I'm sure you can see my point.)
Reminds of this bit from The Onion: Oh, sure, if you’re going to compare us to first-world countries, we’re definitely not going to come out looking so good.
It strikes me as quite ironic that a lot of your comment is essentially a backhanded concession that there are considerable advantages to a country with substantially more left-wing culture and policies.
Technically true, but this doesn't really address Grishnakh's main point: an island (and it's not unreasonable to treat the UK as an island, all in all) is indeed probably easier to keep things out of. (Forgive the end-of-sentence preposition.)
Grishnakh's argument falls down when you compare the USA to France.
Indeed. The failure of various American gun-control schemes counts for something, but the relative success abroad counts for quite a bit as well.
Of course, there's also weight in the predictable counter-point: that gun-control isn't everything, and America is generally quite violent, not just in terms of guns.
No disrespect intended, but let's say we stop some random people on the street and ask them to name a famous hardware hacker. I bet that question isn't showing up on Family Feud anytime soon!
A random person on the street might be able to name the person who first developed Linux.... but probably not. That doesn't mean Linus isn't well-known in tech circles.
I'd heard of bunnie for his work cracking the original Xbox. Here is his Wikipedia page.
I think in 50 years we will look back on this period of time in the same way we view the lack of archiving of television in the mid-20th century, as a massive unnecessary black hole in our cultural history.
I doubt it. Missing recordings cannot be recovered from. DRM can be cracked, generally trivially.
I'm surprised there aren't more people who realise than ICANN is, to use the technical term, fucking broken.
This flood of new TLDs it not good for the web. It does mean companies and organisation are basically required to register a whole bunch of domains, though, lest unsavoury types get their hands on one of the domains. And that means a whole lot more money for ICANN.
An alternate DNS root would be a 'solution', but breaking the web into two webs would be a pretty awful way to progress things.
If the Canadians are paying the 'true worth' of the F-35, and the USA had to pay the standard-military-development-SNAFUBAR overhead, surely the Canadians 'win', no?
One other factor I kinda glossed over is programmability: if we have the graphics chip doing the image-processing work, we can reprogram it if/when we develop a better algorithm, or if we want to do something peculiar - a feng shui app would need to detect furniture, not faces and hands, say.
A dedicated kinect processing chip would either have to be 'fixed function' and impossible to reprogram, or else it would be a programmable chip which is really good at doing image processing... which would basically be a graphics processing unit (you could do it using FPGA, but I can't see any obvious merit to this), so we're back to the make-the-GPU-faster idea.
As 91degrees says, GPUs are pretty damn good at image-processing tasks like this. It might be possible to have a dedicated kinect chip, depending on how much flexibility you want, but that would increase system complexity for no obvious advantage - that would be money better spent on just making the GPU go faster.
The obvious advantage of the make-the-GPU-go-faster approach is what we're now seeing: non-Kinect applications now have access to more GPU power than before. If MS had gone with a dedicated image-processing chip, it would just be going to waste in these applications.
Care to actually make a point? I know we all like digging on the government(s), but there's nothing obviously wrong with the idea that severe punishment might sometimes be appropriate for a crime committed using a computer...
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How would it look soft on crime to suggest that the 'winnings' should go to some higher governmental branch rather than straight to the police agency?
The only ones this might annoy would be the police themselves. It wouldn't take a PR genius to point out that the current system encourages the police to screw up their priorities.
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everything except the Sky TV boxes
Not surprised. They run warm even when 'off'. Apparently this is allowed, though...?
BitBucket is still around. Like GitHub, it's actually fairly good, even the free stuff.
Don't know why they're using .org though. Definitely .com material.
Apparently EU policy requires that devices which are off or in standby use no more than 0.5 watts.
Whether it's actually enforced, I have no idea.
Obviously, they have far less gun-related deaths because they have much less crime. That's a function of their culture.
This seems an oversimplification. If you quadrupled the unemployment rate in France, I'm sure you'd see an increase in crime.
You can't change culture with prohibition laws.
The civil rights and gay rights movements didn't start with law, they started with grassroots. You might be right about the specific topic of guns, though. I don't know of any significant cultural shifts regarding guns, to point to.
Valid point. Dependency on an external service under exclusive control of the publisher does introduce a real risk of eventual 'death'
To be fair, lack of intelligence seems like a better candidate for a disability than obesity...
Depends on the job, no? Obesity isn't generally purely aesthetic.
If you want to hire someone to optimise your website back-end, intelligence counts for more than fitness. If you want to hire someone to shovel rubble, this is reversed.
(Not being obese doesn't necessarily make you strong, of course, but I'm sure you can see my point.)
All reasonable points.
Reminds of this bit from The Onion: Oh, sure, if you’re going to compare us to first-world countries, we’re definitely not going to come out looking so good.
It strikes me as quite ironic that a lot of your comment is essentially a backhanded concession that there are considerable advantages to a country with substantially more left-wing culture and policies.
Technically true, but this doesn't really address Grishnakh's main point: an island (and it's not unreasonable to treat the UK as an island, all in all) is indeed probably easier to keep things out of. (Forgive the end-of-sentence preposition.)
Grishnakh's argument falls down when you compare the USA to France.
Ok then, compare against France instead. Still not looking good.
As first-world countries go, the US isn't doing great.
Indeed. The failure of various American gun-control schemes counts for something, but the relative success abroad counts for quite a bit as well.
Of course, there's also weight in the predictable counter-point: that gun-control isn't everything, and America is generally quite violent, not just in terms of guns.
No disrespect intended, but let's say we stop some random people on the street and ask them to name a famous hardware hacker. I bet that question isn't showing up on Family Feud anytime soon!
A random person on the street might be able to name the person who first developed Linux.... but probably not. That doesn't mean Linus isn't well-known in tech circles.
I'd heard of bunnie for his work cracking the original Xbox. Here is his Wikipedia page.
I think in 50 years we will look back on this period of time in the same way we view the lack of archiving of television in the mid-20th century, as a massive unnecessary black hole in our cultural history.
I doubt it. Missing recordings cannot be recovered from. DRM can be cracked, generally trivially.
I've heard that aggressive caching might be the cause for at least some of it, not sure if there's any truth to that.
With Chrome blocking local extensions because they were "dangerous" without any way to undo it
Chromium?
Unlike AMD hardware that performs fp64 math on fp32 hardware at significantly reduced performance
I'm almost certain this is false. Got a source?
AMD has been known to outperform nVidia at double-precision work.
Neither does the other AC, apparently.
That's not a link. This is a link.
I'm surprised there aren't more people who realise than ICANN is, to use the technical term, fucking broken.
This flood of new TLDs it not good for the web. It does mean companies and organisation are basically required to register a whole bunch of domains, though, lest unsavoury types get their hands on one of the domains. And that means a whole lot more money for ICANN.
An alternate DNS root would be a 'solution', but breaking the web into two webs would be a pretty awful way to progress things.
Gah.
Price-point issue, no?
If the Canadians are paying the 'true worth' of the F-35, and the USA had to pay the standard-military-development-SNAFUBAR overhead, surely the Canadians 'win', no?
Glad to be of help.
One other factor I kinda glossed over is programmability: if we have the graphics chip doing the image-processing work, we can reprogram it if/when we develop a better algorithm, or if we want to do something peculiar - a feng shui app would need to detect furniture, not faces and hands, say.
A dedicated kinect processing chip would either have to be 'fixed function' and impossible to reprogram, or else it would be a programmable chip which is really good at doing image processing... which would basically be a graphics processing unit (you could do it using FPGA, but I can't see any obvious merit to this), so we're back to the make-the-GPU-faster idea.
As 91degrees says, GPUs are pretty damn good at image-processing tasks like this. It might be possible to have a dedicated kinect chip, depending on how much flexibility you want, but that would increase system complexity for no obvious advantage - that would be money better spent on just making the GPU go faster.
The obvious advantage of the make-the-GPU-go-faster approach is what we're now seeing: non-Kinect applications now have access to more GPU power than before. If MS had gone with a dedicated image-processing chip, it would just be going to waste in these applications.
Right. Which is to say, the government doesn't get to shy away from giving ammunition to its critics simply by moving the justice system underground.
Which moron thought this Insightful? Yeesh.
Care to actually make a point? I know we all like digging on the government(s), but there's nothing obviously wrong with the idea that severe punishment might sometimes be appropriate for a crime committed using a computer...