The geographic location of the accused and of his/her assets is irrelevant. The US government should have no right to anyone's assets without due process. All the member of the legal profession who are ok with this are scum.
I worked with TPF back in the late 80s/early 90s. Trust me, it needs to go. I am shocked they are still using it.There was a reason for it when it was invented. Airlines had to interact with thousands of travel agent terminals around the world and the system had to be fast. Hardware was not up to snuff back then. I remember our production mainframe was rate at 120 MIPS and I thought it was amazing at the time. Thus TPF was born. Very close to the metal OS. Slightest programmer error can crash the whole thing. No one in their right mind would use anything like that today. But, I don't think the outage was due to TPF. Although a cloud-based (even an on-premises, multi datacenter) solution would definitely have avoided their woes.
Flew to the Caribbean recently. $450 per ticket. Almost half of that was various taxes and fees. So, the govt overhead is far more significant than IT.
I worked for one of the largest airline reservation systems. It is a very complicated space, many degrees of complexity above your run of the mill social networking website. Unfortunately, the underlying technology goes back many decades (it is mainframe based, I am not sure these other 500 servers they mentioned do). I think that with the newer tech out there, it could probably be re-engineered to be totally fault tolerant but it would be a massive undertaking in $$$$$. To give you some clarity of the complexity, the system even calculates the weight distribution of planes as passengers check in and clears them for take off accordingly.
You picked something innocuous such as eye color. What about Height? Strength? Athletic ability? Intelligence? Beauty? (however subjective it is). Gattaca covered this really well.
The billionaire ranks are swelling by the day. The Apples of the world hoard hundreds of billions. They just don't know what to do with that much money. It is unspendable.
The military will have to shrink. As it is, it is a jobs program. From the soldiering to the manufacturing of weapons of war, it is all about providing jobs and making money for the industrial and military complex. Once we admit to ourselves that is what it is and not some patriotic nonsense about supporting or troops, then we can make progress on discussing better solutions.
Being a police officer is not as dangerous a profession as it is made out to be. It's a myth. Very few officers die on the job due to violence inflicted on them by a civilian. So few in fact that percentage wise the chances are better that they win the lottery. With that in mind, why has society perpetuated this mythology around cops and as a result allowed them a lot of legal perks in the realm of using violence against other civilians?
Usually retirement is after 20 years on the force, so depending when you started, let's say right after college at 22, theoretically you could retire at 42. Nice ain't it?
Sorry, I had cops draw on me and I was not DWB or doing anything remotely illegal. They need to be reigned in with regards to their 'policies' on weapons use.
The questions are so that after you commit a crime they can charge you with additional crimes such as 'lying on a federal form'. They are not really interested in preventing crime, they are interested in being able to incarcerate you after you commit it. Brilliant, isn't it?
Computers do not have intelligence in the sense that humans perceive intelligence. They need a few 'features' of intelligence.
They just need to understand natural language in order to communicate with us and even there, humans misunderstand each other all the time so the bar is not set very high.
To perform the tasks at hand they do not need to 'learn' on the job as we do. Their training before delivery will take care of that.
To perform general purpose tasks all they need is more expansive training.
I don't think we're far from this version of AI.
How can it affect evolution, when most people get cancer when they are old and past their prime reproductive years? The damage has been done by then. Silly.
Second point is that although access to enter was granted, access to download is not implicit. One logged on, you are effectively in someone else's house. If this were a house and the door was left wide open, I think even entering may be construed as trespassing. If in said house, the owner left all their confidential information on their office desk, you are not allowed to take pictures of them with your phone.
To go back to the original thread, if the researcher ended up on this frp server by following a link that the server owner provided, either directly or indirectly by having a link on a public web site saying 'Hey, go look at these documents', then I would exonerate the guy.
Not true about reef islands being just atolls. Anguilla for example is a 'reef' island but those reefs are gigantic and ancient. The island has peaks that are quite high although overall the island is rather flat.
The extra laws are put in place to throw the book at people in case they are caught before committing the main act. In this example, if a terrorist was caught with a drone modified with explosives, they could throw more charges at him and that would put them away for many years. If you did not have these additional laws then there would be fewer crimes to charge the bad actor with. I am not saying I agree with this method, I actually do not as it has 'minority report' written all over it but it is how the system works.
What is the point of making air travel faster when we have to spend hours in lines at the airport and getting to/from the airport? This only makes sense for really long trips like trans continent trips.
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The geographic location of the accused and of his/her assets is irrelevant. The US government should have no right to anyone's assets without due process. All the member of the legal profession who are ok with this are scum.
I worked with TPF back in the late 80s/early 90s. Trust me, it needs to go. I am shocked they are still using it.There was a reason for it when it was invented. Airlines had to interact with thousands of travel agent terminals around the world and the system had to be fast. Hardware was not up to snuff back then. I remember our production mainframe was rate at 120 MIPS and I thought it was amazing at the time. Thus TPF was born. Very close to the metal OS. Slightest programmer error can crash the whole thing. No one in their right mind would use anything like that today. But, I don't think the outage was due to TPF. Although a cloud-based (even an on-premises, multi datacenter) solution would definitely have avoided their woes.
Flew to the Caribbean recently. $450 per ticket. Almost half of that was various taxes and fees. So, the govt overhead is far more significant than IT.
I worked for one of the largest airline reservation systems. It is a very complicated space, many degrees of complexity above your run of the mill social networking website. Unfortunately, the underlying technology goes back many decades (it is mainframe based, I am not sure these other 500 servers they mentioned do). I think that with the newer tech out there, it could probably be re-engineered to be totally fault tolerant but it would be a massive undertaking in $$$$$. To give you some clarity of the complexity, the system even calculates the weight distribution of planes as passengers check in and clears them for take off accordingly.
You picked something innocuous such as eye color. What about Height? Strength? Athletic ability? Intelligence? Beauty? (however subjective it is). Gattaca covered this really well.
We now know that if we turn on/off genes epigenetically, those switches (on/off) can be passed to offspring.
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The billionaire ranks are swelling by the day. The Apples of the world hoard hundreds of billions. They just don't know what to do with that much money. It is unspendable.
The military will have to shrink. As it is, it is a jobs program. From the soldiering to the manufacturing of weapons of war, it is all about providing jobs and making money for the industrial and military complex. Once we admit to ourselves that is what it is and not some patriotic nonsense about supporting or troops, then we can make progress on discussing better solutions.
Being a police officer is not as dangerous a profession as it is made out to be. It's a myth. Very few officers die on the job due to violence inflicted on them by a civilian. So few in fact that percentage wise the chances are better that they win the lottery. With that in mind, why has society perpetuated this mythology around cops and as a result allowed them a lot of legal perks in the realm of using violence against other civilians?
Usually retirement is after 20 years on the force, so depending when you started, let's say right after college at 22, theoretically you could retire at 42. Nice ain't it?
Sorry, I had cops draw on me and I was not DWB or doing anything remotely illegal. They need to be reigned in with regards to their 'policies' on weapons use.
The questions are so that after you commit a crime they can charge you with additional crimes such as 'lying on a federal form'. They are not really interested in preventing crime, they are interested in being able to incarcerate you after you commit it. Brilliant, isn't it?
Computers do not have intelligence in the sense that humans perceive intelligence. They need a few 'features' of intelligence. They just need to understand natural language in order to communicate with us and even there, humans misunderstand each other all the time so the bar is not set very high. To perform the tasks at hand they do not need to 'learn' on the job as we do. Their training before delivery will take care of that. To perform general purpose tasks all they need is more expansive training. I don't think we're far from this version of AI.
How can it affect evolution, when most people get cancer when they are old and past their prime reproductive years? The damage has been done by then. Silly.
Some symptoms that doctors may dismiss as other illnesses, this search capability may catch.
Totally eliminate the traffic jams that four way stop signs that have littered all the intersection in CT have created.
Second point is that although access to enter was granted, access to download is not implicit. One logged on, you are effectively in someone else's house. If this were a house and the door was left wide open, I think even entering may be construed as trespassing. If in said house, the owner left all their confidential information on their office desk, you are not allowed to take pictures of them with your phone. To go back to the original thread, if the researcher ended up on this frp server by following a link that the server owner provided, either directly or indirectly by having a link on a public web site saying 'Hey, go look at these documents', then I would exonerate the guy.
and Ferris Bueller.
Not true about reef islands being just atolls. Anguilla for example is a 'reef' island but those reefs are gigantic and ancient. The island has peaks that are quite high although overall the island is rather flat.
The extra laws are put in place to throw the book at people in case they are caught before committing the main act. In this example, if a terrorist was caught with a drone modified with explosives, they could throw more charges at him and that would put them away for many years. If you did not have these additional laws then there would be fewer crimes to charge the bad actor with. I am not saying I agree with this method, I actually do not as it has 'minority report' written all over it but it is how the system works.
What is the point of making air travel faster when we have to spend hours in lines at the airport and getting to/from the airport? This only makes sense for really long trips like trans continent trips.
Good old fashioned communication WITHOUT cell phones. Cell phones are not a prerequisite for enabling of ciminal/spy/terrorist activity.
Not treason. None of those countries are our enemies. We are not in war with any of them. Thus, not treason.
PACs don't have those limitations. That's how foreign corporations have been lobbying in the US for a while now.