So if I'm recording my girlfriend at the beach and some topless 5 year old girl wanders through the frame or happens to be in the background and her mom gets a bug up her ass about it... I'm charged with a felony? No thanks. If you don't want to chance it ending up on film, don't make it visible in public.
I don't think I saw it in the linked article, but I believe the law specifies flming genitals. Which I don't believe would include breasts, prepubescent or otherwise.
I do wonder how long it will take for a parent to get charged for taking bath tub photos of their iinfant.
Lastly, being that this is/., I would suggest you stick to taking pictures of your imaginary girlfriend in the comfort of your basement. After all that topless girls mother can't see her.
FYI: The "Mormon Church" as you describe it is actually a team at BYU that specializes in genetic identification of family relationships.
Which is funded by the Mormons as it's Brigham Young University
One of their geneticists is one of the top in the country and to date, they have identified a number of unknown mummies who have been floating around various museums.
And he's also a high ranking member of the Church of Latter Day Saints
They have also built a genetic family tree. There is all sorts of things one can learn about ancient Egypt this way. (For example, just because historical records say that two people are related, it doesn't mean they are genetically.)
LDS also has strategic partnerships with Ancestry.com and FamilySearch Do I need to connect the dots for you here too?
The BYU team has no interest in it from a religious perspective. King Tut wouldn't provide any additional "religious" information than the other 30+ mummies they have already worked with. They are very interested in it from a scientific perspective which is another way of saying that they are curious as all scientists should be.
I'm not denying their scientific acumen. It's obvious they are very adept at what they are doing. But the reason this program exists in BYU is to find proof that the native americans were really descended from a lost tribe of Jewish settlers who came to America. Even if the head of this program, who is a high ranking Mormon, isn't interested in this; the LDS would use this as a reason to posthumously baptize Tutankhamun.
It's interesting how "important" this pharaoh is. He died really young. Realistically, his greatest historical accomplishment was simply not having his tomb raided by treasure hunters.
It's amazing how much bullshit is happening around this corpse. The Mormons want to identify if it was one of their ancient ancestors so they can posthumously baptize him. There's some kind of fear that he may have been a Jewish ancestor. Which would somehow make Egypt part of Israel. Then the geneticists are arguing over the validity of DNA testing of mummies. And the most bizarre thing is from some fuzzy screen captue of a computer monitor that was filmed in one of the Discovery channel documentaries. Since they won't release the data, some group is claiming that the screen capture proves that king Tut was actually Caucasian. Which has some Aryan group in a frenzy. And now with the mess in Egypt, further studies have been put on hole. It's like a bad 3000 year old joke.
Square block of stone + rounded corners = Completely new thing humanity never would have dreamed of...
every invention can be boiled down to putting together well understood parts.
That's a pretty silly statement, as most every book written is simply an amalgam of understood words. A CPU is simply a bunch of transistors arranged in a slightly different configuration and/or size. Hell you and I are virtually identical chemically. 98.8% of our elemental composition is a mix of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, potassium, sodium and chlorine. Actually 96%, or more, of the composition of damn near every known living critter is the first 6 elements I mentioned. They're just arranged slightly differently. But essentially humans are not too different from a dog chemically.
What combinations of inventions were put together to invent the wheel?
I can't image a worse trip than knowing your going do die and experiencing those thoughts while under the influence of LSD. For those that have never taken this drug, beyond the entertaining light, sounds and altered twisted reality and all, it can also puts your mind on a train of thought such that you can not break out of it unless someone is monitoring you, picks up on that and says, "dude, snap out of it." Somehow death and and LSD are a bad idea.
I was thinking the same thing. It's been several decades since I've dropped acid. But this could go one of two ways. I've had very few bad "trips" but I can't imagine how bad it could be if you know you are dying. And i hope they give them some valium when they come down. There's nothing worse than that strung out feeling afterwards. It's best if you can sleep through that. On the other hand, most things are pretty funny when you're tripping.
I remember when I was a teenager doing LSD and I saw the grim reaper appear. After I got over my initial shock I pointed at him and laughed. Eventually he went away but took my walls and ceiling with him. My only thought at the time was that my dad was going to be really pissed when he sees this.
Lee said they were looking at three possible routes the virus could have taken onto campus: wild birds, NIAS vehicles, and supply deliveries. 'We will determine the reason for the infection, and we are going to hold those responsible accountable,' he said."
OK... Just how do you hold wild birds accountable???
DDT. It did a great job of lowering several species populations to the brink of extinction. As an added side benefit, it will also get rid of mosquitos and other pesky insects.
so beware, make sure your diet fits YOUR BODY, and always - listen to your body and don't become a fanatic.
That's some of the best advice I've seen in this discussion. I'm sure that some day we'll be able to classify people better so we know what is best for each of us. But for now, we are all different and what works for some, will not work for others. And for some people, nothing really works. I have two friends who are, and have always been very careful about what the eat and exercise religiously and are in great physical shape. One of them needed three stents in their coronaries, and the other needed five. Sometimes it is simply genetics and there is nothing you can do about it.
would you accept Obama's impeachment as legitimate if only Republicans could vote?
Why not? We accept the Affordable Care Act with out any Republicans voting for it. And even then there were not enough votes until they used "budget reconciliation" to pass it. It still baffles me that if they were willing to go that far, why they couldn't have given us a single payer system.
Government does some things really well. For example, the Social Security Administration is almost unfathomably efficient, compared to other large national or private retirement systems. For example, the overhead of SS is less than 3%,
While the social security administration part of the government is very efficient, the government as a whole is not. If congress hadn't raided the hell out of the social security trust fund, it wouldn't be in the financial mess it is in right now. It would be eventually, but it would have been many years from now
The United States Post Office is also very economically efficient, especially considering how hemmed in they are by Congress. How people can both believe that post office workers are lazy, yet at the same time be so stressed out and overworked as to be the archetype for "going postal", I'll never understand. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
I have a hard time believing this was all due to stress. You have to be pretty damn mentally unbalanced to come to work and start killing people that you've been interacting with for some period of time. There are a lot of jobs that are one hell of a lot more stressful, but you don't see this happening at. The problem is that the first guy did it and the term "going postal" stuck. Look at the people who have gone on shooting sprees in other places. The school shootings were people who were mentally unbalanced. Fort Hood was another nut job, as were the DC snipers.
Now that being said, I agree, the post office is amazingly well run. Congress is screwing them up.
But you need to take the entire organization as a whole. When a company is going bankrupt, you can't say, they did a fantastic job because the mail room was efficient. Or that the pension was great. Especially if the pension fund is running backwards.
On one hand, it would be really cool to be able to bring back mammoths. On the other, with a warming planet, their preferred habitat will be shrinking in the future. So it seems kind of cruel. What about the saber-tooth tiger? Can we bring them back too? They're not cute and fluffy, so I guess not. Even so, mammoths went extinct before it was likely our fault. Perhaps we should figure out how to save the animals we are currently pushing toward extinction before we start bringing ones back that have been gone for tens of thousands of years.
It's because the Republicans want us All to die. They killed my mother with a different dam so this is nothing out of the ordinary for Republicans.
Washington state mostly voted for a democrat in the last presidential election. Has a democrat for governor. Has six members who are democrat to four republican in the US house of representatives and both senators are democrats. Is 55 to 43 in favor of the democrats in the lower state house. And is 26 to 23 in favor of the dems in the state senate. But the republicans are responsible for this dam? If that's the case, the democrats in that state should all be shot for gross incompetence. Or perhaps the republicans used voodoo? I've heard they do eat their young, on occasion.
I'm sorry to hear about your mother. But if somehow the government was responsible, then you need to direct your ire toward both parties as there is no way only one party could have done this without the other at least knowing.
Most likely someone screwed up in the engineering, or something was wrong with a batch of concrete. Worst case, an inspector got paid to look the other way. Or missed something.
While I am not sure what was meant by "professionally fitted,"
I was wondering the same thing. N95 are one time use disposable masks. Do you need to get them professionally fitted every time you put one on? I'm guessing it's more likely you are supposed to get someone to tell you what size is best suited for you. In the case you can't figure it out yourself.
Tell me again why college in the US costs sooooo much?
It mainly boils down to the greed of corporate America. Just look at the salaries of football coaches at schools with large football programs. Then compare their salary to that of the folks in charge of the educational side of things. How is it that a glorified gym teacher makes more money, in what is supposed to be an institution of higher education? Or look at the scholarships that are given to the players. It all comes down to how much money the sports programs bring in, and nothing to do with education.
It's unbelievable how profitable many schools are on realestate and other investments. But that money doesn't go into lowering tuition costs. It goes into more investments to make more money. We've become very short sighted in America. CEO's apply strategies that generate large quarterly profit at the expense of the long term health of the company. We seem to be applying the same principles to our education systems in the US now too.
Yes, it is possible to set it up so it explodes like a grenade if it is tampered with too, that is not what it is being advertised. The feature is that unscrewing it will make it erase the data.
I'm not talking about large amounts of sodium or thermite. And turning a chip into slag is certainly one way to erase it.
Regardless, FTFA: “Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable.” So no, using a Dremel will not work apparently.
I'm pretty sure people don't want to be walking around with a phone which has sodium metal or thermite in it.
Security is one thing, but having a phone with the potential to detonate in your pocket doesn't sound like my idea of fun.
These aren't phones for people like you and I. Hell, some of the agencies that would use these issued suicide pills to their agents. What's a little burn compared to that?
How many people drive aroud with a flairs directly over their gas tank, in the trunk of a car? Most use sodium to ignite them these dsys. Neither sodium or thermite "detonate" in the normal sense. And you really don't need much to render a chip into slag.
So...take a dremel and cut the case around the screws.
Unless the case is airtight and it has some sodium inside. Or even better, it's airtight and pressurized with a pressure sensor that ignites a small amount of thermite. That way it can't be opened in a vacuum either. As small as things have gotten, it would be pretty trivial, especially if it is slightly larger than most consumer phones.
I never understood why leaded gasoline was cheaper than unleaded back when both were for sale. They actually added the lead. I also don't understand why lead additives are still allowed.
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So if I'm recording my girlfriend at the beach and some topless 5 year old girl wanders through the frame or happens to be in the background and her mom gets a bug up her ass about it... I'm charged with a felony? No thanks. If you don't want to chance it ending up on film, don't make it visible in public.
I don't think I saw it in the linked article, but I believe the law specifies flming genitals. Which I don't believe would include breasts, prepubescent or otherwise.
I do wonder how long it will take for a parent to get charged for taking bath tub photos of their iinfant.
Lastly, being that this is /., I would suggest you stick to taking pictures of your imaginary girlfriend in the comfort of your basement. After all that topless girls mother can't see her.
FYI: The "Mormon Church" as you describe it is actually a team at BYU that specializes in genetic identification of family relationships.
Which is funded by the Mormons as it's Brigham Young University
One of their geneticists is one of the top in the country and to date, they have identified a number of unknown mummies who have been floating around various museums.
And he's also a high ranking member of the Church of Latter Day Saints
They have also built a genetic family tree. There is all sorts of things one can learn about ancient Egypt this way. (For example, just because historical records say that two people are related, it doesn't mean they are genetically.)
LDS also has strategic partnerships with Ancestry.com and FamilySearch Do I need to connect the dots for you here too?
The BYU team has no interest in it from a religious perspective. King Tut wouldn't provide any additional "religious" information than the other 30+ mummies they have already worked with. They are very interested in it from a scientific perspective which is another way of saying that they are curious as all scientists should be.
I'm not denying their scientific acumen. It's obvious they are very adept at what they are doing. But the reason this program exists in BYU is to find proof that the native americans were really descended from a lost tribe of Jewish settlers who came to America. Even if the head of this program, who is a high ranking Mormon, isn't interested in this; the LDS would use this as a reason to posthumously baptize Tutankhamun.
It's interesting how "important" this pharaoh is. He died really young. Realistically, his greatest historical accomplishment was simply not having his tomb raided by treasure hunters.
It's amazing how much bullshit is happening around this corpse. The Mormons want to identify if it was one of their ancient ancestors so they can posthumously baptize him. There's some kind of fear that he may have been a Jewish ancestor. Which would somehow make Egypt part of Israel. Then the geneticists are arguing over the validity of DNA testing of mummies. And the most bizarre thing is from some fuzzy screen captue of a computer monitor that was filmed in one of the Discovery channel documentaries. Since they won't release the data, some group is claiming that the screen capture proves that king Tut was actually Caucasian. Which has some Aryan group in a frenzy. And now with the mess in Egypt, further studies have been put on hole. It's like a bad 3000 year old joke.
He told you: square block, rounded corners
So you're saying that Apple has a patent on the wheel? Meh. It wouldn't surprise me.
iOS has yet to have a single piece of malware in the wild for it.
You mean like this one?
Can this be said about any other widespread ecosystem in the computing arena?
OpenBSD? ;)
Square block of stone + rounded corners = Completely new thing humanity never would have dreamed of...
every invention can be boiled down to putting together well understood parts.
That's a pretty silly statement, as most every book written is simply an amalgam of understood words. A CPU is simply a bunch of transistors arranged in a slightly different configuration and/or size. Hell you and I are virtually identical chemically. 98.8% of our elemental composition is a mix of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, potassium, sodium and chlorine. Actually 96%, or more, of the composition of damn near every known living critter is the first 6 elements I mentioned. They're just arranged slightly differently. But essentially humans are not too different from a dog chemically.
What combinations of inventions were put together to invent the wheel?
You do realise that was just pretend don't you? We are men of science! please take the movie memes elsewhere, /. is turning into Reddit.
You must be new here.
The difference is you don't know when it will happen.
Sure I do. It'll happen later
I can't image a worse trip than knowing your going do die and experiencing those thoughts while under the influence of LSD. For those that have never taken this drug, beyond the entertaining light, sounds and altered twisted reality and all, it can also puts your mind on a train of thought such that you can not break out of it unless someone is monitoring you, picks up on that and says, "dude, snap out of it." Somehow death and and LSD are a bad idea.
I was thinking the same thing. It's been several decades since I've dropped acid. But this could go one of two ways. I've had very few bad "trips" but I can't imagine how bad it could be if you know you are dying. And i hope they give them some valium when they come down. There's nothing worse than that strung out feeling afterwards. It's best if you can sleep through that. On the other hand, most things are pretty funny when you're tripping.
I remember when I was a teenager doing LSD and I saw the grim reaper appear. After I got over my initial shock I pointed at him and laughed. Eventually he went away but took my walls and ceiling with him. My only thought at the time was that my dad was going to be really pissed when he sees this.
OK... Just how do you hold wild birds accountable???
DDT. It did a great job of lowering several species populations to the brink of extinction. As an added side benefit, it will also get rid of mosquitos and other pesky insects.
so beware, make sure your diet fits YOUR BODY, and always - listen to your body and don't become a fanatic.
That's some of the best advice I've seen in this discussion. I'm sure that some day we'll be able to classify people better so we know what is best for each of us. But for now, we are all different and what works for some, will not work for others. And for some people, nothing really works. I have two friends who are, and have always been very careful about what the eat and exercise religiously and are in great physical shape. One of them needed three stents in their coronaries, and the other needed five. Sometimes it is simply genetics and there is nothing you can do about it.
would you accept Obama's impeachment as legitimate if only Republicans could vote?
Why not? We accept the Affordable Care Act with out any Republicans voting for it. And even then there were not enough votes until they used "budget reconciliation" to pass it. It still baffles me that if they were willing to go that far, why they couldn't have given us a single payer system.
when will Russia stop all these illegal wars?
As soon as they win them and declare they were not illegal. The winners write the history book after all.
Government does some things really well. For example, the Social Security Administration is almost unfathomably efficient, compared to other large national or private retirement systems. For example, the overhead of SS is less than 3%,
While the social security administration part of the government is very efficient, the government as a whole is not. If congress hadn't raided the hell out of the social security trust fund, it wouldn't be in the financial mess it is in right now. It would be eventually, but it would have been many years from now
The United States Post Office is also very economically efficient, especially considering how hemmed in they are by Congress. How people can both believe that post office workers are lazy, yet at the same time be so stressed out and overworked as to be the archetype for "going postal", I'll never understand. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
I have a hard time believing this was all due to stress. You have to be pretty damn mentally unbalanced to come to work and start killing people that you've been interacting with for some period of time. There are a lot of jobs that are one hell of a lot more stressful, but you don't see this happening at. The problem is that the first guy did it and the term "going postal" stuck. Look at the people who have gone on shooting sprees in other places. The school shootings were people who were mentally unbalanced. Fort Hood was another nut job, as were the DC snipers.
Now that being said, I agree, the post office is amazingly well run. Congress is screwing them up. But you need to take the entire organization as a whole. When a company is going bankrupt, you can't say, they did a fantastic job because the mail room was efficient. Or that the pension was great. Especially if the pension fund is running backwards.
There are two kinds of operating systems; emacs, and lesser.
FTFY
On one hand, it would be really cool to be able to bring back mammoths. On the other, with a warming planet, their preferred habitat will be shrinking in the future. So it seems kind of cruel. What about the saber-tooth tiger? Can we bring them back too? They're not cute and fluffy, so I guess not. Even so, mammoths went extinct before it was likely our fault. Perhaps we should figure out how to save the animals we are currently pushing toward extinction before we start bringing ones back that have been gone for tens of thousands of years.
It's because the Republicans want us All to die. They killed my mother with a different dam so this is nothing out of the ordinary for Republicans.
Washington state mostly voted for a democrat in the last presidential election. Has a democrat for governor. Has six members who are democrat to four republican in the US house of representatives and both senators are democrats. Is 55 to 43 in favor of the democrats in the lower state house. And is 26 to 23 in favor of the dems in the state senate. But the republicans are responsible for this dam? If that's the case, the democrats in that state should all be shot for gross incompetence. Or perhaps the republicans used voodoo? I've heard they do eat their young, on occasion.
I'm sorry to hear about your mother. But if somehow the government was responsible, then you need to direct your ire toward both parties as there is no way only one party could have done this without the other at least knowing.
Most likely someone screwed up in the engineering, or something was wrong with a batch of concrete. Worst case, an inspector got paid to look the other way. Or missed something.
While I am not sure what was meant by "professionally fitted,"
I was wondering the same thing. N95 are one time use disposable masks. Do you need to get them professionally fitted every time you put one on? I'm guessing it's more likely you are supposed to get someone to tell you what size is best suited for you. In the case you can't figure it out yourself.
Tell me again why college in the US costs sooooo much?
It mainly boils down to the greed of corporate America. Just look at the salaries of football coaches at schools with large football programs. Then compare their salary to that of the folks in charge of the educational side of things. How is it that a glorified gym teacher makes more money, in what is supposed to be an institution of higher education? Or look at the scholarships that are given to the players. It all comes down to how much money the sports programs bring in, and nothing to do with education.
It's unbelievable how profitable many schools are on realestate and other investments. But that money doesn't go into lowering tuition costs. It goes into more investments to make more money. We've become very short sighted in America. CEO's apply strategies that generate large quarterly profit at the expense of the long term health of the company. We seem to be applying the same principles to our education systems in the US now too.
Yes, it is possible to set it up so it explodes like a grenade if it is tampered with too, that is not what it is being advertised. The feature is that unscrewing it will make it erase the data.
I'm not talking about large amounts of sodium or thermite. And turning a chip into slag is certainly one way to erase it.
Regardless, FTFA: “Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable.” So no, using a Dremel will not work apparently.
I'm pretty sure people don't want to be walking around with a phone which has sodium metal or thermite in it.
Security is one thing, but having a phone with the potential to detonate in your pocket doesn't sound like my idea of fun.
These aren't phones for people like you and I. Hell, some of the agencies that would use these issued suicide pills to their agents. What's a little burn compared to that? How many people drive aroud with a flairs directly over their gas tank, in the trunk of a car? Most use sodium to ignite them these dsys. Neither sodium or thermite "detonate" in the normal sense. And you really don't need much to render a chip into slag.
So...take a dremel and cut the case around the screws.
Unless the case is airtight and it has some sodium inside. Or even better, it's airtight and pressurized with a pressure sensor that ignites a small amount of thermite. That way it can't be opened in a vacuum either. As small as things have gotten, it would be pretty trivial, especially if it is slightly larger than most consumer phones.
"the prototype capsule cannot be hermetically sealed" And yet my fridge can.
In the vacuum of space? Is it the same model that was used in the last Indiana Jones movie?
Really?
Where are you, harvesters of the low hanging fruit?
I heard that it will be carrying the Kardashians as a way to raise awareness about the program. Oh, wait...
I never understood why leaded gasoline was cheaper than unleaded back when both were for sale. They actually added the lead. I also don't understand why lead additives are still allowed.