In the US any action is legal unless there is a law against it, at least it is as long as there are people who insist that is true. We need to not only let people go who have committed no crime as the law is written but the system needs to be sanctioned if it becomes clear that someone has violated no law and continues to unlawfully detain or take legal action against such individuals. BTW, we, the people, are the final arbiters of what is legal and illegal. The problem is that too many people have given up this right and/or misunderstand the justice system thinking juries are just rubber stamps to the prosecution.
So, NSA, tell our locals stop sending me to jury duty since I understand jury nullification and would be an automatic strike.
I wonder what the false positive rate is for the signature system? The false negative rate is 5%. I would need to know more information before I could figure out the false positive rate and how many legitimate accounts are flagged by this system,.
But, but, how can any of your healthcare executives swindle billions of dollars from the public with a system like that? How can these guys get enough resources to do a John Galt on the public and watch the Death Panels....er....Health Insurers ration....er....allocate healthcare and let the other patients die....er....economize on healthcare resources.
No, I'm not bitter at all that my hospital bill for a simple 12 hours ER stay due to symptoms mimicking stroke is $25,000. After all I could have gone to a different hospital and it would be $(pick a random 5 digit number above 25,000). No, I'm not bitter that I will have to fight the insurance company, the hospital, and the doctors for proper billing and proper payment above my $2500 deductible.
By the way, in the US private individual insurance tends to have a minimum deductible of $2500 and costs a minimum of $5000 for family coverage. That doesn't included your co-pays of $25 to $75 a doctor visit and medicine co-pays of $10 to $60 if the insurance company covers them at all. The biggest problem is that our idiot politicians think this is perfectly OK.
Any halfway intelligent person can solve this problem in any number of ways, but we have powerful people that have a vested interest in the current system. These people, making a killing off the current US healthcare system, either are denying that the US healthcare system will collapse or they are frantically trying to make a much "big money" they can before the collapse.
Solutions exist but they are useless without the will to implement one of them.
These videos seem to be more work than needed if you live in the US or Canada. If you are an American ex-pat these videos are very valuable since getting such comfort snacks could be expensive or difficult to get. Somehow Pringles are easy to get anywhere. Go figure.
If Putin was smart he would have his agents recruit the best of these guys and pair them with Snowden for a "special project". Putin's people would have thought of this idea already within the first minute of this NSA announcement.
Gold and Silver are not currency in the USA due to the switch to Fiat money. That means I cannot go to a courthouse to pay a fine with gold or silver. I must convert these hard assets to American dollars first.
Currency should be defined as an financial instrument unit that allows you to pay all taxes, fines, judgments, and debts. Notice there is nothing that says it must be tied to a precious metal or resource. This is the definition of fiat currency.
This is the reason the ultra doomsday preppers are dead wrong on gold and silver. Gold and silver are NO LONGER currency in the US because you can not pay all taxes, fines, judgments, or debts since the end of the gold standard (1933) and the silver demand note (I think 1964). If the US government starts accepting Jelly Bellies as payment for all taxes, fines, judgments, and debts then Jelly Bellies would be a currency.
I don't know if that will ever be the case with bitcoin either directly or via currency conversion.
You're right. How dare anyone question the God-given right of greedy, amoral pigs to exploit and dominate their fellow humans!
Heads up...life has always been a contest, for each creature to struggle and fight with others to survive...in our case, to also live more comfortably and provide for our families, even if that means beating someone else out of things to do so.
Not everyone is born equal in stature or ability. Not everyone is born on the same equal footing to start life out upon.
But, that's nature...always has been, always will be.
That is true, not everyone is born equal in ability but it should be recognized that they are equal in their natural rights which government may or may not acknowledge.
There is a new idea out in the America that the 1st place winner gets everything, is morally superior, and deserves to do as he/she pleases and those that are 2nd to 1 billionth place are to be ground into powdery dust by the 1st place winner. This is a recent concept in America, a country that was economically founded on "screw the poor".
No one in America will tell you to your face that they believe in this idea but they hint at it on nearly every politically driven radio talk show. This new idea seems to be assumed to be correct in the two parties. This idea is morally wrong, as far as a reasonable Christian would say, and is very destructive in a country where we once had nearly 60-70% of the population be able to live modestly and have "good jobs". I see no reason why that can't be done now, not via some complex communistic redistribution of wealth plan but solely by recognizing that we all must give of our money, time, and talent to the betterment of this country. Those that have little money shouldn't be asked to pay only with money when they can give time and talent nor should we ask those that have the financial resources to pay only with time and talent.
It is even worse in detecting plagiarism in Computer Program since there is a small subset of algorithms that would be the most efficient or easiest to code. If you have 50 students to program a sort you are going to get several of the nearly identical program.
"If everyone in my exact situation called the police, a few crimes may be prevented but a lot of lives would be intruded on and a lot of police resources and taxpayer money would be spent. Would it be better for society if, as a rule, the police were called in this exact situation or if, as a rule, they were not?"
You are assuming that whomever called in the tip to the police was a perfectly rational person who was capable of such a thought instead of someone racked with fear. The real problem is that when such an attack happens people get really fearful and being fearful is the perfect thing to shutdown higher functions in the brain. The informant's gut check probably said "Pressure Cooker!!! OMGWTFBBQ!!!! AUUUUUGH!!! CALL THE COPS!!!" because of overwhelming fear of another attack. There is no rational thought at this point, only fear of another attack. The government does not help when they continually say "see something, say somethings" so highly fearful people will tell the police about anything that triggers their fears.
We on Slashdot usually have a good handle on math and we think equations are better because we can condense an explanation down to a few words and a few equations and get on with life. Most of the public does not have a good handle on math, so they are not being willfully ignorant, so words explaining it works better even though it can create long unwieldy sentences.
I think you are confusing mathematicians with engineers. Any mathematician worth his/her salt should know that the Pythagorean Theorem comes straight from the 2-norm in a Euclidean space, which is what most people mean when they say "the distance between two things". You can of course get philosophical and say, "why the 2-norm"?, but this is easily answered by an application of d'Alembert's principle. Now, you see what I did there? Yet another thing to figure out "why is it so", and indeed, you have to work fairly hard to find out how deep the rabbit hole goes.
And Joe Plumber looks at this quote and says "What the h*ll is he talking about?"
I would agree that most people cannot read equations to save their lives, especially in the US. The haphazard way teenagers are taught and learn Mathematics in the US, especially Algebra, makes it difficult to put anything more mathematically difficult than Roman Numerals, fractions, and percents. Even then there are millions who can't even comprehend these things as evident in other internet forums. That creates a self reinforcing loop.
Maybe a good start is the most basic practical rules of thumb in finance since more people are focused on money rather than math. For example the rule of 72, which predicts how many years it will take to double your money at some interest rate. The equation would be written for the layman as 72/(interest rate) = Years to double your money.
Well, anyway, the kids in the complex would take the delivered mail after each delivery and toss in the trash, take it home, put it in other boxes, etc., etc. A central delivery point doesn't work too well for us.
Assuming you live in the US, I would ask the property manager to set up hidden and not-so-hidden cameras to catch these kids in the act and scare them straight. Technically this behavior is a serious federal crime if it involves the USPS mail. You will never hear the national media talk about mailbox thefts and people caught tampering with the USPS mail, except the USPS workers themselves, because the feds want it that way since it is a significant problem and could undermine the confidence of the USPS mail system. My source about this issue is from a former postal inspector.
IMHO, this seems to be a variation of what Prenda Law is doing. I guarantee it won't stop until a handful of lawyer get convicted of perjury and serve some stiff sentences.
In spite of all of the times I wired numerous double-wide and single-wide mobile units, big enough to hold 48 or 18 people respectively, the VoIP phones that trash their own firmware upon reboot, full recoveries in parking lots, fields, and any open spot after a hurricane or storm, all of the EIGRP and BGP failures, MPLS installations, numerous satellite equipment failures, bugs in switch, router, and firewall software, multicast software packages having dubious compatibility with firmware versions of our equipment, numerous firewalls each with its own way to make configurations and access lists, PBX systems going haywire, PRI, SIP, T1, and Fiber link outages, corrupted or destroyed MX and DNS records, e-mail services crapping out, lost connections to the cloud services, the DoS attacks, and such, there is nothing like being a field network engineer for disaster recovery. I LOVE my job!!!
Actually that makes sense. Purposeful strategic flooding, further breaking the Titantic, if it were possible, could have saved the Titantic long enough to evacuate the passengers on another ship because the weight of the water in the ship would have been distributed more evenly. The Titantic would have sunk anyway but probably with far fewer causalities.
Actually in World War 2 the Navy did this all of the time. If the warship was in danger of capsizing in a storm the best thing they could do is to actually flood the fuel lines with ocean water (breaking the ship a little), thereby making the ship ride lower in the storm and making the ship more resistant to capsizing by putting the center of gravity lower inside the ship.
What they really mean is that if a feature of a module is malfunctioning or broken then take out of production and/or disable the entire module.
Even though your leg's skin, joints, and muscles are fully functional the best way to handle a broken bone in your leg is to pull that leg from production. In other words, if only your tibia is broken, the best thing is to stop using the entire leg until it is healed instead of trying to find a way to continue to use the leg without putting weight on the tibia because everything else with the leg is OK.
Believe it or not I have done the same to the network when something goes wrong. We had real problems with Multicasting in our network when we upgraded our switches. I found out that it was easier to disable multicasting on our switches, which by default treat multicasts as broadcasts. Since we were using multicast only for Norton Ghost, and not for media host streaming, that was a perfectly acceptable solution.
The lesson: If a feature malfunctions the fastest way to fix the problem is to delete the feature in production until it can be repaired and retested.
I can assure you that no company can hire enough programmers for under $25/hr. The massive importation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) professionals from other countries as cheaper temporary immigrants has distorted the job market against American STEM professionals causing fewer students to go into the STEM field in the past two decades. The STEM job market is eventually self-correcting so the slow correction is what is driving the lack of cheap STEM professionals in America. The increased importation of more STEM professionals will further drive away students from STEM studies.
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In the US any action is legal unless there is a law against it, at least it is as long as there are people who insist that is true. We need to not only let people go who have committed no crime as the law is written but the system needs to be sanctioned if it becomes clear that someone has violated no law and continues to unlawfully detain or take legal action against such individuals. BTW, we, the people, are the final arbiters of what is legal and illegal. The problem is that too many people have given up this right and/or misunderstand the justice system thinking juries are just rubber stamps to the prosecution.
So, NSA, tell our locals stop sending me to jury duty since I understand jury nullification and would be an automatic strike.
Hey, I have the right to bear arms and I don;t care what the government says. Now as for my pasty white legs that is something totally different.
I wonder what the false positive rate is for the signature system? The false negative rate is 5%. I would need to know more information before I could figure out the false positive rate and how many legitimate accounts are flagged by this system,.
But, but, how can any of your healthcare executives swindle billions of dollars from the public with a system like that? How can these guys get enough resources to do a John Galt on the public and watch the Death Panels....er....Health Insurers ration....er....allocate healthcare and let the other patients die....er....economize on healthcare resources.
No, I'm not bitter at all that my hospital bill for a simple 12 hours ER stay due to symptoms mimicking stroke is $25,000. After all I could have gone to a different hospital and it would be $(pick a random 5 digit number above 25,000). No, I'm not bitter that I will have to fight the insurance company, the hospital, and the doctors for proper billing and proper payment above my $2500 deductible.
By the way, in the US private individual insurance tends to have a minimum deductible of $2500 and costs a minimum of $5000 for family coverage. That doesn't included your co-pays of $25 to $75 a doctor visit and medicine co-pays of $10 to $60 if the insurance company covers them at all. The biggest problem is that our idiot politicians think this is perfectly OK.
Any halfway intelligent person can solve this problem in any number of ways, but we have powerful people that have a vested interest in the current system. These people, making a killing off the current US healthcare system, either are denying that the US healthcare system will collapse or they are frantically trying to make a much "big money" they can before the collapse.
Solutions exist but they are useless without the will to implement one of them.
These videos seem to be more work than needed if you live in the US or Canada. If you are an American ex-pat these videos are very valuable since getting such comfort snacks could be expensive or difficult to get. Somehow Pringles are easy to get anywhere. Go figure.
If Putin was smart he would have his agents recruit the best of these guys and pair them with Snowden for a "special project". Putin's people would have thought of this idea already within the first minute of this NSA announcement.
Gold and Silver are not currency in the USA due to the switch to Fiat money. That means I cannot go to a courthouse to pay a fine with gold or silver. I must convert these hard assets to American dollars first.
Currency should be defined as an financial instrument unit that allows you to pay all taxes, fines, judgments, and debts. Notice there is nothing that says it must be tied to a precious metal or resource. This is the definition of fiat currency.
This is the reason the ultra doomsday preppers are dead wrong on gold and silver. Gold and silver are NO LONGER currency in the US because you can not pay all taxes, fines, judgments, or debts since the end of the gold standard (1933) and the silver demand note (I think 1964). If the US government starts accepting Jelly Bellies as payment for all taxes, fines, judgments, and debts then Jelly Bellies would be a currency.
I don't know if that will ever be the case with bitcoin either directly or via currency conversion.
Heads up...life has always been a contest, for each creature to struggle and fight with others to survive...in our case, to also live more comfortably and provide for our families, even if that means beating someone else out of things to do so.
Not everyone is born equal in stature or ability. Not everyone is born on the same equal footing to start life out upon.
But, that's nature...always has been, always will be.
That is true, not everyone is born equal in ability but it should be recognized that they are equal in their natural rights which government may or may not acknowledge.
There is a new idea out in the America that the 1st place winner gets everything, is morally superior, and deserves to do as he/she pleases and those that are 2nd to 1 billionth place are to be ground into powdery dust by the 1st place winner. This is a recent concept in America, a country that was economically founded on "screw the poor".
No one in America will tell you to your face that they believe in this idea but they hint at it on nearly every politically driven radio talk show. This new idea seems to be assumed to be correct in the two parties. This idea is morally wrong, as far as a reasonable Christian would say, and is very destructive in a country where we once had nearly 60-70% of the population be able to live modestly and have "good jobs". I see no reason why that can't be done now, not via some complex communistic redistribution of wealth plan but solely by recognizing that we all must give of our money, time, and talent to the betterment of this country. Those that have little money shouldn't be asked to pay only with money when they can give time and talent nor should we ask those that have the financial resources to pay only with time and talent.
It is even worse in detecting plagiarism in Computer Program since there is a small subset of algorithms that would be the most efficient or easiest to code. If you have 50 students to program a sort you are going to get several of the nearly identical program.
"If everyone in my exact situation called the police, a few crimes may be prevented but a lot of lives would be intruded on and a lot of police resources and taxpayer money would be spent. Would it be better for society if, as a rule, the police were called in this exact situation or if, as a rule, they were not?"
You are assuming that whomever called in the tip to the police was a perfectly rational person who was capable of such a thought instead of someone racked with fear. The real problem is that when such an attack happens people get really fearful and being fearful is the perfect thing to shutdown higher functions in the brain. The informant's gut check probably said "Pressure Cooker!!! OMGWTFBBQ!!!! AUUUUUGH!!! CALL THE COPS!!!" because of overwhelming fear of another attack. There is no rational thought at this point, only fear of another attack. The government does not help when they continually say "see something, say somethings" so highly fearful people will tell the police about anything that triggers their fears.
We on Slashdot usually have a good handle on math and we think equations are better because we can condense an explanation down to a few words and a few equations and get on with life. Most of the public does not have a good handle on math, so they are not being willfully ignorant, so words explaining it works better even though it can create long unwieldy sentences.
I think you are confusing mathematicians with engineers. Any mathematician worth his/her salt should know that the Pythagorean Theorem comes straight from the 2-norm in a Euclidean space, which is what most people mean when they say "the distance between two things". You can of course get philosophical and say, "why the 2-norm"?, but this is easily answered by an application of d'Alembert's principle. Now, you see what I did there? Yet another thing to figure out "why is it so", and indeed, you have to work fairly hard to find out how deep the rabbit hole goes.
And Joe Plumber looks at this quote and says "What the h*ll is he talking about?"
I would agree that most people cannot read equations to save their lives, especially in the US. The haphazard way teenagers are taught and learn Mathematics in the US, especially Algebra, makes it difficult to put anything more mathematically difficult than Roman Numerals, fractions, and percents. Even then there are millions who can't even comprehend these things as evident in other internet forums. That creates a self reinforcing loop.
Maybe a good start is the most basic practical rules of thumb in finance since more people are focused on money rather than math. For example the rule of 72, which predicts how many years it will take to double your money at some interest rate. The equation would be written for the layman as 72/(interest rate) = Years to double your money.
Well, anyway, the kids in the complex would take the delivered mail after each delivery and toss in the trash, take it home, put it in other boxes, etc., etc. A central delivery point doesn't work too well for us.
Assuming you live in the US, I would ask the property manager to set up hidden and not-so-hidden cameras to catch these kids in the act and scare them straight. Technically this behavior is a serious federal crime if it involves the USPS mail. You will never hear the national media talk about mailbox thefts and people caught tampering with the USPS mail, except the USPS workers themselves, because the feds want it that way since it is a significant problem and could undermine the confidence of the USPS mail system. My source about this issue is from a former postal inspector.
IMHO, this seems to be a variation of what Prenda Law is doing. I guarantee it won't stop until a handful of lawyer get convicted of perjury and serve some stiff sentences.
In regard to Thimerosal:
"The dose makes the poison" - Paracelsus
In spite of all of the times I wired numerous double-wide and single-wide mobile units, big enough to hold 48 or 18 people respectively, the VoIP phones that trash their own firmware upon reboot, full recoveries in parking lots, fields, and any open spot after a hurricane or storm, all of the EIGRP and BGP failures, MPLS installations, numerous satellite equipment failures, bugs in switch, router, and firewall software, multicast software packages having dubious compatibility with firmware versions of our equipment, numerous firewalls each with its own way to make configurations and access lists, PBX systems going haywire, PRI, SIP, T1, and Fiber link outages, corrupted or destroyed MX and DNS records, e-mail services crapping out, lost connections to the cloud services, the DoS attacks, and such, there is nothing like being a field network engineer for disaster recovery. I LOVE my job!!!
Actually that makes sense. Purposeful strategic flooding, further breaking the Titantic, if it were possible, could have saved the Titantic long enough to evacuate the passengers on another ship because the weight of the water in the ship would have been distributed more evenly. The Titantic would have sunk anyway but probably with far fewer causalities.
Actually in World War 2 the Navy did this all of the time. If the warship was in danger of capsizing in a storm the best thing they could do is to actually flood the fuel lines with ocean water (breaking the ship a little), thereby making the ship ride lower in the storm and making the ship more resistant to capsizing by putting the center of gravity lower inside the ship.
What they really mean is that if a feature of a module is malfunctioning or broken then take out of production and/or disable the entire module.
Even though your leg's skin, joints, and muscles are fully functional the best way to handle a broken bone in your leg is to pull that leg from production. In other words, if only your tibia is broken, the best thing is to stop using the entire leg until it is healed instead of trying to find a way to continue to use the leg without putting weight on the tibia because everything else with the leg is OK.
Believe it or not I have done the same to the network when something goes wrong. We had real problems with Multicasting in our network when we upgraded our switches. I found out that it was easier to disable multicasting on our switches, which by default treat multicasts as broadcasts. Since we were using multicast only for Norton Ghost, and not for media host streaming, that was a perfectly acceptable solution.
The lesson: If a feature malfunctions the fastest way to fix the problem is to delete the feature in production until it can be repaired and retested.
I hope they will give him his job back as CEO of Men's Wearhouse now.
"You're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it,"
I can assure you that no company can hire enough programmers for under $25/hr. The massive importation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) professionals from other countries as cheaper temporary immigrants has distorted the job market against American STEM professionals causing fewer students to go into the STEM field in the past two decades. The STEM job market is eventually self-correcting so the slow correction is what is driving the lack of cheap STEM professionals in America. The increased importation of more STEM professionals will further drive away students from STEM studies.