Seriously, I'm getting tired of governments who are scaring their citizens about Iran's threat to this world.
Agree 100%. It's disheartening that Slashdot has made themselves a part of the US Government's anti-Iran propaganda machine. Think they got paid for this one?
The police try to find patterns in activity already, but it is far less effective for a relatively small group of people to look for patterns than it is for a computer with many cameras.
Do you have a citation for this assertion? More generally, any information that supports your contention that computers are better than people at recognizing crime patterns in real-time. Even more generally, that computers are effective at this at all.
There is one key phrase in the constitution (that even you quoted) that makes it okay. ". . . except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; . .."
Bzzt, read the entire sentence. The exception to the 5th amendment "in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger," refers not to whether the 5th applies to non-citizens, it refers to the first part of the sentence, "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury." This means you can't be arrested for a capital crime without a grand jury, unless it's a time of war or you're in the military/militia. That's it.
Why do people keep insisting that the US is a 'siege state'?
I'm not the original poster, but from where I'm sitting the evidence is that the people who purport to know what's really going on, such as yourself, will only do it under cover of anonymity. That's a pretty big red flag if you ask me.
IRC is pretty much a shadow of its-self from the good old days of perhaps 10 years ago. Does anyone really even bother with it now?
Some people say that all history is a shadow, so in a way aren't you saying that anything that existed in the past can be compared negatively to its "good old days?" I think in a different social circle this might be called "old-timer's disease." IRC is just as good as it's ever been in my 15 years of using it, but I don't use it for social purposes so my experience may be different than those who always used it similarly to today's instant messaging.
I'm not a religious man, but I pray for the day Google allows you to blacklist certain domains globally (for your cookie or login). Malware sites sure, but link farms and pay-forums and gopher indexes and yadda yadda clog up so much, I'm thinking this feature would be akin to a Do-Not-Call list for the web.
That wouldn't mean the content wouldn't still be available under the current versions of the licenses (you can't un-license it once it's out there), but it could mean that forks could be made which were non-free.
How exactly do you propose that something licensed under GPL v2 (or v3) could be forked to non-free, even under a future version of a license developed by an evil future-FSF? The politics of the FSF do not factor into the license chosen by a particular author.
They have to make money some how and the easiest way to do that is to sell your information on to other people or come to agreements with other companies to find ways to market to you.
The bitch was asking for it. You see that miniskirt?
I'm just stating a matter of fact, that republican methods of government are NOT the driving force behind why your country is so screwed at the moment.
Whatever sense of republicanism you're using is irrelevant when you consider the context of current US misery is due to a particularly American flavor of that philosophy. Saying that republicans in other parts of the world don't subscribe to American Republican tenets is an exercise in irrelevance because foreign Republicans have not been elected into US Government. You may think it unfortunate that they share the name "Republican," but that's the way it is.
You dummies voted GWB back in for another term, how about you take responsibility for THAT.
It ain't "me" dummies, I didn't vote for him but I take responsibility by not supporting his policies and by not traveling, possibly saving some parts of the world from being reminded of GWB's existence.
I think what you are pointing out is more a failing of leadership then a failing of republican ideals.
Such a short memory. What Republicans were complaining when DeLay wielded the gavel? None. Sorry pal, but just because fucking the country over turned out badly doesn't mean it has nothing to do with Republicans. Take some responsibility, like your Republican ideals might have you do.
The error he made is rather obvious, if you pay attention to details. That fact that most criminals have previous charges does not in ANY way tell you how likely a first time offender is to commit another crime. Instead it tells you that a few people have a SERIOUS problem, not at all how likely first timers are to have that serious problem.
More simply for those having trouble following along: about half of those arrested had previous convictions. The poster claiming statistics and sources was engaging in a textbook case of the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy, extrapolating wrongly that people who commit these crimes will do so again. The data cited does not bear this out and states only that there is recidivism in the realm of sexual crimes (and, as the quotes states, most of the priors were not sexual battery).
This may sound silly, but it is an extremly well documented fact that sexual predators TYPICALLY(not always) will continue to prey after release from jail, after chemical castration, almost after anything.
I question how well-documented this is, do you have a citation for this?
If Bush is thrown out, then Cheney becomes president
This would never happen. Election season is coming up and there's no way Cheney's health can tolerate a President's level of visibility. He would probably resign as Bush is impeached and Bush would name a new VP while he could.
The reason we do it is because the CUSTOMERS who PAY MONEY know what monster cables are and will pay more for them.
Can you honestly say that CUSTOMERS who will PAY MONEY for Monster Cable really know "what monster cables are?" What, in your experience, do they say Monster Cables "are?"
Slashdot Mirror
It already is. What is so hard about it?
I don't know, but as long as (surprise!) AJAX Magazine says "AJAX is awesome," I'm on the kool-aid bus whether it's easy or not!
Seriously, I'm getting tired of governments who are scaring their citizens about Iran's threat to this world.
Agree 100%. It's disheartening that Slashdot has made themselves a part of the US Government's anti-Iran propaganda machine. Think they got paid for this one?
The police try to find patterns in activity already, but it is far less effective for a relatively small group of people to look for patterns than it is for a computer with many cameras.
Do you have a citation for this assertion? More generally, any information that supports your contention that computers are better than people at recognizing crime patterns in real-time. Even more generally, that computers are effective at this at all.
There is one key phrase in the constitution (that even you quoted) that makes it okay. ". . . except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; . . ."
Bzzt, read the entire sentence. The exception to the 5th amendment "in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger," refers not to whether the 5th applies to non-citizens, it refers to the first part of the sentence, "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury." This means you can't be arrested for a capital crime without a grand jury, unless it's a time of war or you're in the military/militia. That's it.
Yes, OK guys. I get it, it's not like that anymore.
Why do people keep insisting that the US is a 'siege state'?
I'm not the original poster, but from where I'm sitting the evidence is that the people who purport to know what's really going on, such as yourself, will only do it under cover of anonymity. That's a pretty big red flag if you ask me.
IRC is pretty much a shadow of its-self from the good old days of perhaps 10 years ago. Does anyone really even bother with it now?
Some people say that all history is a shadow, so in a way aren't you saying that anything that existed in the past can be compared negatively to its "good old days?" I think in a different social circle this might be called "old-timer's disease." IRC is just as good as it's ever been in my 15 years of using it, but I don't use it for social purposes so my experience may be different than those who always used it similarly to today's instant messaging.
Also say that down the line, bad people take over the FSF and make GPL v27, which has no requirement to release the source code.
This is preposterous. Got another example?
Amen!! %#&%$%n' Expert-exchange is right up there every time I google any technical/coding problem, no matter how obscure..
Little-known fact: the experts-exchange answers are at the bottom of the page. They just insert those fake greyed out boxes to throw you off.
I'm not a religious man, but I pray for the day Google allows you to blacklist certain domains globally (for your cookie or login). Malware sites sure, but link farms and pay-forums and gopher indexes and yadda yadda clog up so much, I'm thinking this feature would be akin to a Do-Not-Call list for the web.
That wouldn't mean the content wouldn't still be available under the current versions of the licenses (you can't un-license it once it's out there), but it could mean that forks could be made which were non-free.
How exactly do you propose that something licensed under GPL v2 (or v3) could be forked to non-free, even under a future version of a license developed by an evil future-FSF? The politics of the FSF do not factor into the license chosen by a particular author.
They have to make money some how and the easiest way to do that is to sell your information on to other people or come to agreements with other companies to find ways to market to you.
The bitch was asking for it. You see that miniskirt?
Since when is any technological development used for anything besides making people lazier?
IN OTHER NEWS: "Liquor Store Owner Calls for Shutdown of Bars."
I'm just stating a matter of fact, that republican methods of government are NOT the driving force behind why your country is so screwed at the moment.
Whatever sense of republicanism you're using is irrelevant when you consider the context of current US misery is due to a particularly American flavor of that philosophy. Saying that republicans in other parts of the world don't subscribe to American Republican tenets is an exercise in irrelevance because foreign Republicans have not been elected into US Government. You may think it unfortunate that they share the name "Republican," but that's the way it is.
You dummies voted GWB back in for another term, how about you take responsibility for THAT.
It ain't "me" dummies, I didn't vote for him but I take responsibility by not supporting his policies and by not traveling, possibly saving some parts of the world from being reminded of GWB's existence.
The judge ruled that this was personal email so that the case would end, and the submitter would go away.
So you're suggesting that the judge is corrupt and prejudicial and that this case was not decided on its merits.
I think what you are pointing out is more a failing of leadership then a failing of republican ideals.
Such a short memory. What Republicans were complaining when DeLay wielded the gavel? None. Sorry pal, but just because fucking the country over turned out badly doesn't mean it has nothing to do with Republicans. Take some responsibility, like your Republican ideals might have you do.
Von Boyage?
Only if they wind up having to go to jail.
The error he made is rather obvious, if you pay attention to details. That fact that most criminals have previous charges does not in ANY way tell you how likely a first time offender is to commit another crime. Instead it tells you that a few people have a SERIOUS problem, not at all how likely first timers are to have that serious problem.
More simply for those having trouble following along: about half of those arrested had previous convictions. The poster claiming statistics and sources was engaging in a textbook case of the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy, extrapolating wrongly that people who commit these crimes will do so again. The data cited does not bear this out and states only that there is recidivism in the realm of sexual crimes (and, as the quotes states, most of the priors were not sexual battery).
Forgive me, but isn't 297k really cold for room temp?
297 Kelvin = 74.93 deg F
This may sound silly, but it is an extremly well documented fact that sexual predators TYPICALLY(not always) will continue to prey after release from jail, after chemical castration, almost after anything.
I question how well-documented this is, do you have a citation for this?
If Bush is thrown out, then Cheney becomes president
This would never happen. Election season is coming up and there's no way Cheney's health can tolerate a President's level of visibility. He would probably resign as Bush is impeached and Bush would name a new VP while he could.
Cannabis is not particularly harmful, especially when vapourized or eaten instead of smoked. ...except for the part where it makes you stupid.
Thirdly, no legit business, at least any I have worked in, would touch (some) state of the art servers at half price
Well, I guess that takes care of legit businesses. Now, to rule out the remaining illegitimate businesses...
The reason we do it is because the CUSTOMERS who PAY MONEY know what monster cables are and will pay more for them.
Can you honestly say that CUSTOMERS who will PAY MONEY for Monster Cable really know "what monster cables are?" What, in your experience, do they say Monster Cables "are?"