I understand *fully*, why face recognition systems in public places is wrong. BUT, the airlines have a right and a duty to know who their customers are, and if face recognition systems help peal off the layers of anonymity they should be allowed to use them. Airlines have the right to know with whom they are doing business with. The business transition of purchasing a ticket is done on a contractual basis, and the airlines and the customer have the right know who the other party in the contract is.
Why do you try to paint me with such a "red-necked" brush
I'm afraid you've been trolled. He really dosen't care about the plight in Iraq - he just uses it as a stage to bash Americans and Euorpeans. Check out the posts he has made and you'll see what I'm talking about. You can learn a lot about a person based on who their enemies are, and based on that, I think you're in good company.
It's not enough to say that you're the good guys. You actually have to act like it as well.
I call your bluff. Where are your actions? How many supplies have you run past the US/UK embargo into Iraq. None. You're just bitching about the behavor of others when you, yourself, do nothing.
Good work, the ghost of Chamberlain is proud of you, old boy.
A good percentage of the American people surveyed said they will be patient until the right people are found.
Thank goodness, I say. I was quite surprised.
May I ask why you were surprised? I've always thought of ourselves as often misguided - but not the blood-thirsy thugs that Universal Studios whould have you beleive.
Apparently "Thou shalt now kill" has been amended "unless you're at war."
Actually, a more correct translation to English is "Thou shalt not murder." Another bit of trivia, the whole "Eye for an Eye" is not god telling you that you should seek punishemnt commensurate with the crime, it it god telling you not to go overboard in your punishent.
You forgot the tens of thousands of good, decent family folks dead through lack of access to basic medical supplies.
Bzzz, wrong, thanks for playing.
The US and the Western style democracies, have donated so many medical supplies and vaccines, that we are facing a population explosion on this planet because of it.
NBC News has learned that investigators in Europe and the United States are examining whether Islamic fanatic Osama bin Laden may have financed Tuesday's terror assault on America by stock trades in European exchanges in the days before the attacks.
Does that make you feel any better about things!... . I suppose if Osama bin Laden sent over a few McDonalds vouchers that would square everything?
Great job of building a straw man and knocking him down. Well done brave man!
Charity is measured by results and not motives, and the USA has saved an incredible amount of lives thought medical research and crop efficiency research. In fact, the Medical research of the Western world is so good, and so many lives have been saved, that the some consider the word over-populated because of it.
Of course the behavior of USA could be better, but apparently you think you're pretty cleaver for figuring out that one, so I'll give you credit to make you feel better.
Don't count the USGS - the Fifteen minuit series of USGS are amazing when you consider the vast size of the US. The USGS and NASA have been working together to make them even better, with satelite topography measurements and textures, the new maps promise to be almost life-like.
The demo is really neet - it's worth firing up a Windows box. As you fly around, the system feeds you better and better textures for the ground. Unfortunatly, it seems that it dumps the good textrues as soon as you fly away too far. The user interface works ok - user '-' and '+' on the numeric keypad to change elevations.
I don't think the cell phone GPS receiver will impact battery life too much. Your nifty Garmin is a 12 channel (or more) receiver and updates itself in all the time - the cell phone GPS receivers will be a small and efficiet single channel receiver and will probably only update themselves during a call and once in a while during non-call opperation.
I'm whish I had your Summit - I have one of the old clunky Garmin 12's. I rememeber that civilian GPS receivers went nuts during the Gulf war - the military boosted the added error. I wonder if that will happen again soon...
Interesting story - Ebel's family having to pry out his story out of him reminds me of a lot of people that endurred those times: they just don't want to talk about it.
My comments were not directed at people who thoughtfully consider our past and learn from it. Certainly no - our generation has learned the lesson, and I hope future generations pay attention. The mistake we made with the internment camps was not that we interred people, but that we interred people based on race, rather than by guilt. There were German, Italian and Japanese spies in out midst, and some of them were not even from those countries - they should have been the ones interred if their guilt could have been established. I suspect that if we had interred people based on guilt - the camp would have been very small indeed.
As a predominately European culture, and without understanding, we expected our ethnic Japanese citiznes to be sympathetic to Imperial Japan. Given, how afraid and scared our ancesters were, I'm a proud that our country didn't behave like the monsters our enemies made us out to be. We didn't deport our citiznes them to our enemy and we didn't kill our citizens. Those were dark days, and dark ideas were in our minds - we didn't totally succumb to them, and for that we should be thankful, and indeed a bit proud.
It's currently popular to judge our past with the standards of today. Let's hope our children forgive us of our transgressions, and seek to understand out times before passing judgment upon us.
Currently, when a wire tap is issued, it pertains to a particualr phone - all conversations (suspect or not) are recorded, on that phone. A proposal, issued by the Vice President, would be to make wire tap's issued on a per-person basis. This proposal, in theory, is a boost to pesonal liberties, and to security.
There is a lot of potential here, but this game is jumpy, even with my DSL and low ping times. Of course they went for the "Lots of Dimly Lit Rooms" map - it's hard to tell freind from foe, unless you're right on top of them. I'm sure there is some setting that will put little icons of the team floating above the avatars, but the game was so jumpy, I lost interest.
If you could get a cell phone to answer a special emergency incomming call, and if you could place a cell tower close to the site - you could do a triangulation of the vicem by setting up three loude noise makers spaced far appart. Each would trigger in sequece, and a triangulation could be made by determining how long the cellphone took to hear the noise. This would allow rescue workers to fin the locations of the phone - even if the GPS signal can't get to the phone, the noise could.
It seems form the comments here that the cell phone manufacturers have several method to deal with a loss of signal.
1) Go into low power mode and check for signal every once in a while to coserve battery.
2) Go into high-power mode in an attempt to get a signal quickly.
If cell phones had GPS receivers they could be a bit smarter - if their position changed they could go into high-power mode, otherwise they would stay in low-power mode.
As I understand it - if a Cell phone can't get a signal, it boosts it's power output in an attempt to connect. We have a tower near my house, and the my cell phone stays on standby for six days - if I bring it backpacking and leave it on, it's dead within hours. You idead is good though - perhaps we would just need to put high-powered cell towers so the individual phones can communicate efficently.
To add to your 100,000/year quote - don't forget all the people we killed with our Polio vaccine. OH, I shreak in horror of all the people we kill with our food aid.
Don't feel bad that your were not "Patriotic" before the terrorist attack. It's easy to be patriotic when times are easy: You find yourself one with America when it counts - when times are tough.
I would wager that Slashdot serves larger pages - AND Slashdot lets you post and view the comments in almost real time. MSNBC serves static pages, to be views by "consumers". Sashdot provides a forum for citizens, and hence, is more complicated.
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I understand *fully*, why face recognition systems in public places is wrong. BUT, the airlines have a right and a duty to know who their customers are, and if face recognition systems help peal off the layers of anonymity they should be allowed to use them. Airlines have the right to know with whom they are doing business with. The business transition of purchasing a ticket is done on a contractual basis, and the airlines and the customer have the right know who the other party in the contract is.
I'm afraid you've been trolled. He really dosen't care about the plight in Iraq - he just uses it as a stage to bash Americans and Euorpeans. Check out the posts he has made and you'll see what I'm talking about. You can learn a lot about a person based on who their enemies are, and based on that, I think you're in good company.
I call your bluff. Where are your actions? How many supplies have you run past the US/UK embargo into Iraq. None. You're just bitching about the behavor of others when you, yourself, do nothing.
Good work, the ghost of Chamberlain is proud of you, old boy.
Thank goodness, I say. I was quite surprised.
May I ask why you were surprised? I've always thought of ourselves as often misguided - but not the blood-thirsy thugs that Universal Studios whould have you beleive.
Actually, a more correct translation to English is "Thou shalt not murder." Another bit of trivia, the whole "Eye for an Eye" is not god telling you that you should seek punishemnt commensurate with the crime, it it god telling you not to go overboard in your punishent.
NORAID is a huge black mark on the face of liberty. For all the death and destruction and sorrow it caused, as an American, I'm ashamed and sorry.
Bzzz, wrong, thanks for playing.
The US and the Western style democracies, have donated so many medical supplies and vaccines, that we are facing a population explosion on this planet because of it.
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NBC News has learned that investigators in Europe and the United States are examining whether Islamic fanatic Osama bin Laden may have financed Tuesday's terror assault on America by stock trades in European exchanges in the days before the attacks.
Great job of building a straw man and knocking him down. Well done brave man!
Charity is measured by results and not motives, and the USA has saved an incredible amount of lives thought medical research and crop efficiency research. In fact, the Medical research of the Western world is so good, and so many lives have been saved, that the some consider the word over-populated because of it.
Of course the behavior of USA could be better, but apparently you think you're pretty cleaver for figuring out that one, so I'll give you credit to make you feel better.
Don't count the USGS - the Fifteen minuit series of USGS are amazing when you consider the vast size of the US. The USGS and NASA have been working together to make them even better, with satelite topography measurements and textures, the new maps promise to be almost life-like.
The demo is really neet - it's worth firing up a Windows box. As you fly around, the system feeds you better and better textures for the ground. Unfortunatly, it seems that it dumps the good textrues as soon as you fly away too far. The user interface works ok - user '-' and '+' on the numeric keypad to change elevations.
I don't think the cell phone GPS receiver will impact battery life too much. Your nifty Garmin is a 12 channel (or more) receiver and updates itself in all the time - the cell phone GPS receivers will be a small and efficiet single channel receiver and will probably only update themselves during a call and once in a while during non-call opperation.
I'm whish I had your Summit - I have one of the old clunky Garmin 12's. I rememeber that civilian GPS receivers went nuts during the Gulf war - the military boosted the added error. I wonder if that will happen again soon...
Interesting story - Ebel's family having to pry out his story out of him reminds me of a lot of people that endurred those times: they just don't want to talk about it.
My comments were not directed at people who thoughtfully consider our past and learn from it. Certainly no - our generation has learned the lesson, and I hope future generations pay attention. The mistake we made with the internment camps was not that we interred people, but that we interred people based on race, rather than by guilt. There were German, Italian and Japanese spies in out midst, and some of them were not even from those countries - they should have been the ones interred if their guilt could have been established. I suspect that if we had interred people based on guilt - the camp would have been very small indeed.
Ok - I freely admit this won't be "popular".
As a predominately European culture, and without understanding, we expected our ethnic Japanese citiznes to be sympathetic to Imperial Japan. Given, how afraid and scared our ancesters were, I'm a proud that our country didn't behave like the monsters our enemies made us out to be. We didn't deport our citiznes them to our enemy and we didn't kill our citizens. Those were dark days, and dark ideas were in our minds - we didn't totally succumb to them, and for that we should be thankful, and indeed a bit proud.
It's currently popular to judge our past with the standards of today. Let's hope our children forgive us of our transgressions, and seek to understand out times before passing judgment upon us.
Currently, when a wire tap is issued, it pertains to a particualr phone - all conversations (suspect or not) are recorded, on that phone. A proposal, issued by the Vice President, would be to make wire tap's issued on a per-person basis. This proposal, in theory, is a boost to pesonal liberties, and to security.
There is a lot of potential here, but this game is jumpy, even with my DSL and low ping times. Of course they went for the "Lots of Dimly Lit Rooms" map - it's hard to tell freind from foe, unless you're right on top of them. I'm sure there is some setting that will put little icons of the team floating above the avatars, but the game was so jumpy, I lost interest.
It's the U.S. TAXPAYER that got the U.S. mostly out of debt. Politicions don't do squat excpt run their mouths.
If you could get a cell phone to answer a special emergency incomming call, and if you could place a cell tower close to the site - you could do a triangulation of the vicem by setting up three loude noise makers spaced far appart. Each would trigger in sequece, and a triangulation could be made by determining how long the cellphone took to hear the noise. This would allow rescue workers to fin the locations of the phone - even if the GPS signal can't get to the phone, the noise could.
It seems form the comments here that the cell phone manufacturers have several method to deal with a loss of signal.
1) Go into low power mode and check for signal every once in a while to coserve battery.
2) Go into high-power mode in an attempt to get a signal quickly.
If cell phones had GPS receivers they could be a bit smarter - if their position changed they could go into high-power mode, otherwise they would stay in low-power mode.
As I understand it - if a Cell phone can't get a signal, it boosts it's power output in an attempt to connect. We have a tower near my house, and the my cell phone stays on standby for six days - if I bring it backpacking and leave it on, it's dead within hours. You idead is good though - perhaps we would just need to put high-powered cell towers so the individual phones can communicate efficently.
After so many hours, woulden't most cell phone batteries have run out by now. I hope I'm wrong.
To add to your 100,000/year quote - don't forget all the people we killed with our Polio vaccine. OH, I shreak in horror of all the people we kill with our food aid.
Don't feel bad that your were not "Patriotic" before the terrorist attack. It's easy to be patriotic when times are easy: You find yourself one with America when it counts - when times are tough.
I would wager that Slashdot serves larger pages - AND Slashdot lets you post and view the comments in almost real time. MSNBC serves static pages, to be views by "consumers". Sashdot provides a forum for citizens, and hence, is more complicated.