Give every cop a camera, have it record every second of every day that they are on duty. If the media comes out with something taken out of context, make the complete video available to the media and the public via the police website. Corruption festers in the dark, the only way to deal with it is to shine a bright light on it. If that light only hits things that make the police look bad the answer can't be to turn the light off, it should be to make sure the light hits everything.
No, problem is not solved. Problem is worked around, problem is bandaided, problem is addressed. But it is not solved. The user shouldn't have to jump through hoops to control their device.
But a facebook password gives access to a whole lot of stuff that has nothing to do with the case. This would be like the Judge demanding unlimited access to your house (without your oversight) so that they could have a look at what the TV in your living room looks like. There are better, more restrictive ways that the evidence could be gathered, ways that don't expose every intimate detail of a person's private life to the courts.
Yes, because everyone knows that global plant coverage is increasing at an enormous rate and will continue to do so as the global population expands.[/sarcasm] All the plant growth of a decade wouldn't soak up the CO2 from a single year of our emissions, not to mention the fact that in 100 years when those plants die they'll release all that CO2 right back into the atmosphere.
is that so hard for teachers to actually take attendance?
That would require the teachers to learn the students names! Otherwise how would a teacher know if their friend didn't just say 'here' for them at the start of class?[/sarcasm]
So, instead of developing a suite of testing tools for each new and exciting drug that hits the market (black or pharmacy) why not come up with a system that tests actual impairment? I would think a simple device that tests reaction time, decision making, and coordination would be enough to consistently identify people driving impaired by anything. Then give the same tests at the DMV with more stringent requirements each time a person renews (most places every 5 years). And yes, that would catch people impaired by non-chemical means, but I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing.
God damn it no! Yes, a shield is used for defense but I ask you, if you've got a short sword and the enemy has a short sword how likely are you to attack? How about now I give you a shield to go with your sword? How about an impenetrable personal force field guaranteed to keep you safe no matter what? See the difference? Every piece of military technology is about opening up options. I'm not saying that a missile shield can't be used to shoot down unprovoked attacks, I'm just saying that a missile shield makes a provoked attack that much likely.
How about bad luck? Its not like the police do whole genome sequencing to identify suspects, there's nothing that says you couldn't have markers similar enough to someone else to get flagged for a crime you didn't commit. Even if the accuracy were 99.99999% you'd have 700 people in the world who match, and I highly, highly doubt their accuracy is that high.
Even if it were DNA from the rape, I would have my doubts about their claimed "100%" number. Let's say it's really "only" 99.99%; they have 8000 samples, what are the odds that someone will match? Then you through in the fact that the 99.99% probably includes a truly random sample, which a small town is most assuredly not, and the odds of finding a false positive increase even more.
The rating system was wildly different when the first Andromeda Strain was released. The film was released to theaters in 1971, but I'd be willing to bet that the MPAA applied its 'G' rating the year before in 1970 when the only choices were G(eneral audiences), M(ature audiences), R(estricted), X. And the nudity in Andromeda Strain is fleeting and utterly non-sexual, even today it wouldn't force the movie out a PG rating. At absolute worst Andromeda Strain would land a PG13 rating today (a rating that simply didn't exist at the time).
Yes, it's probably theoretically possible to create interference patterns with gravity waves, but that doesn't mean you can make a negative gradient. Think about light, you can one light source interfere with and completely cancel out another (in principal anyway) but that doesn't mean that you can create negative brightness. You can reduce the brightness down to the base state, 0 but not below. Similarly, you can possibly, with enough energy and mass, create a region of space time with 0 curvature, that doesn't mean you can create a negative curvature, which is what stable wormholes and warp drives require.
If we have the technology to make a negative gravitational gradient (which all the FTL theoretical engines require, incidentally) you can do a lot of neat stuff. Make a ball of negative mass matter and let go and watch it shoot straight up just for kicks. Of course, there's absolutely no reason to expect that such a material is possible; oh sure, the math works out if you assume it can exist, but that doesn't mean that it is physically possible.
You watch over your 13 year old every minute of every day? 13 is more than old enough to have a private life and private activities, in fact I would argue that trying to deny them that would have a much worse effect on society than downloading music does. How long does it take to install some peer to peer software and hide it? 20 minutes? Maybe 5 minutes to queue up each song and move it to the device of your choice. Yeah, letting your teenager have 30 minutes on a PC without your supervision should be a criminal offense. Not digging through every file on the family PC should be a criminal offense. Not spying on your children should be a criminal offense. That all makes perfect sense.
These are bio-hazard level 3 and level 4 labs. The same procedures that are used to study diseases like Smallpox and Ebola. Know where else in the US facilities like these exist? Boston, Richmond Virginia, San Antonio Texas, Atlanta Georgia, and Fort Detrick Maryland (less than 50 miles from Washington DC). So, investigating highly contagious, highly lethal diseases in major population centers is ok, but investigating animal diseases with the same precautions in cattle country isn't? This just screams NIMBA or Pork or both.
And if you yell "fire" in a theater and there is no fire, you will be kicked out.
It's kind of a shame that things have changed so much that this phrase has lost all meaning. (Well, I mean, it's good that our fire codes have improved so a fire isn't so insanely dangerous, but I digress.) Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is about annoying people, or even causing a panic. It's about killing people. Sometimes dozens of people. Several hundred people crammed into a dark, fabric filled room (not to mention all the flammable clothing) with a single exit? Lot's of people died in fires in those kinds of conditions and yelling fire was all but guaranteed to cause a stampede to the exit leaving people injured and dead. That is what the supreme court ruled was not protected, using speech in such a way that you know will cause harm and death to other people. And they had to argue that all the way to the supreme court to get a final decision: now think how easily our rights are eroded today and compare.
No, but they should absolutely reject someone who says "anyone accused of abusing children is disgusting and needs to be thrown in prison for the rest of their life". Why? Because accused != guilty.
This seems confusing to me, because arguably it's going to use significantly less power than NAND. If I have something to write and it takes NAND 10s at 10w to write it, that's 100J of energy. MRAM would take.02s at 50w, that's 1J of energy. Unless I'm missing something? Seems like they could have quoted that to be both more accurate and show their product in a better light.
I tried going to cyanogenmod.com and got redirected to cyanogenmod.org. Maybe someone realized that what he was doing wasn't just unethical, but also most likely illegal.
The police have power over us (it's a power that we grant them as part of their job). Power corrupts and attracts the corrupt, maybe not everyone every time, but often enough that every major police force in the world is going to have a handful of officers who simply should not be given that power. That small handful is more than enough to turn the majority of citizens against the police if they are allowed to continue to operate.
It doesn't have to be kicking down the wrong door at 4 AM with guns blazing, and it is just as often a cop who is will to do "a favor" for a friend and take care of a "problem" that they have. My daycare provider for instance, had a dog that barked, annoying yes, but the dog was also completely harmless. One day, the gate was mysteriously left open, 10 minutes later the cops were there with a citation (based only on the statement of 1 person that the dog was loose). When she asked for an explanation, suddenly there were 3 cop cars outside her house... for a loose dog. When she went to the police station to file a complaint, she was denied a complaint form, detained for 2 hours, and had a background check done (which after more than an hour of checking "found" that her license was expired (and it wasn't - apparently there was a 'clerical error')).
A) If he had answered "yes" to the strong feelings question, the next question would have been "How so?", this isn't a check the boxes test that they take and no one ever looks at. B) The attitude that Samsung takes issue with is one in which the patent holder is always right simply by virtue of being the patent holder. Patents are law, but that doesn't mean that every accusation made by a patent holder is valid. C) When you combine B with the influence he reportedly had over the jury during deliberations, you can easily get a situation where a case should be thrown out. Having what is for all intents and purposes a representative of one of the parties interests (since his overlap with theirs) in the jury room, interacting 1 on 1 with the other jurors, even in a position of authority over them (by virtue of being the jury foreman) is poisoning the pool.
If Samsung con convincingly establish that this is what happened they absolutely have a valid case.
My 1 year old daughter can be deceitful. He did nothing wrong in the course of his duties. The only semi-plausible argument is that the situation could have put in in a position to be blackmailed; which, incidentally was the logic used to deny homosexuals security clearances for decades, effectively blacklisting them from several lucrative industries.
This election wasn't just about Obama vs Romney, I would argue that wasn't even the most important race taking place, especially given that anyone objective enough to look at actual polling data knew the conclusion before the first ballot was caste on the 6th. If I were a republican, I'd be more worried about the number of senate races they lost. I'd be more worried about the fact that they lost the popular vote if you add up all the house races (only maintaining a 40 seat lead in the house thanks to a metric shit-ton of gerrymandering in 2010). I'd be more worried that 60% of voters think that taxes should go up for the richest people and only 35% thought that taxes shouldn't go up for anyone. And that 65% of voters think there should be a path to legal residency for illegal immigrants.
And if I were a social conservative, I'd be terrified that 60% of voters in this election think that abortion should be legal for all circumstances. And that more people think same sex marriage should be recognized than not (49% to 46%). Not to mention that Wisconsin (of all places) just elected the first openly gay senator.
Things are changing the US. It wasn't just that Romney was unlikable, it wasn't just that he had to pander to the base to get elected. Over the past 8 years conservative, republican positions have become more and more untenable to the majority of voters.
And this at a company where we only sell somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 machines per year. He can pay for his cost to the company for the year by saving perhaps $150 per machine.
How much do they pay him!? Seems like if he can trim even $15 per machine the company has come out ahead, for $150 they should give him a raise, a bonus, and 3 interns to help find the next batch of savings.
"Their kids" could easily be in their upper 20s and low 30s so I don't really see a problem with that. The issue they're going to have to tackle if they really want to include the original characters is how to fill in everything that happened between the end of 6 and the start of 7, with no gimmicky flashbacks or half hour speeches. Especially if you center the plot on their because almost by definition, their children are going to be filled on on what's been going on, which doesn't make it easy to introduce the information to the audience. There's a reason the mono-myth starts with a weakling outsider who gets introduced to the magical world step by step along with the audience.
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Give every cop a camera, have it record every second of every day that they are on duty. If the media comes out with something taken out of context, make the complete video available to the media and the public via the police website. Corruption festers in the dark, the only way to deal with it is to shine a bright light on it. If that light only hits things that make the police look bad the answer can't be to turn the light off, it should be to make sure the light hits everything.
No, problem is not solved. Problem is worked around, problem is bandaided, problem is addressed. But it is not solved. The user shouldn't have to jump through hoops to control their device.
But a facebook password gives access to a whole lot of stuff that has nothing to do with the case. This would be like the Judge demanding unlimited access to your house (without your oversight) so that they could have a look at what the TV in your living room looks like. There are better, more restrictive ways that the evidence could be gathered, ways that don't expose every intimate detail of a person's private life to the courts.
Yes, because everyone knows that global plant coverage is increasing at an enormous rate and will continue to do so as the global population expands.[/sarcasm] All the plant growth of a decade wouldn't soak up the CO2 from a single year of our emissions, not to mention the fact that in 100 years when those plants die they'll release all that CO2 right back into the atmosphere.
is that so hard for teachers to actually take attendance?
That would require the teachers to learn the students names! Otherwise how would a teacher know if their friend didn't just say 'here' for them at the start of class?[/sarcasm]
So, instead of developing a suite of testing tools for each new and exciting drug that hits the market (black or pharmacy) why not come up with a system that tests actual impairment? I would think a simple device that tests reaction time, decision making, and coordination would be enough to consistently identify people driving impaired by anything. Then give the same tests at the DMV with more stringent requirements each time a person renews (most places every 5 years). And yes, that would catch people impaired by non-chemical means, but I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing.
God damn it no! Yes, a shield is used for defense but I ask you, if you've got a short sword and the enemy has a short sword how likely are you to attack? How about now I give you a shield to go with your sword? How about an impenetrable personal force field guaranteed to keep you safe no matter what? See the difference? Every piece of military technology is about opening up options. I'm not saying that a missile shield can't be used to shoot down unprovoked attacks, I'm just saying that a missile shield makes a provoked attack that much likely.
How about bad luck? Its not like the police do whole genome sequencing to identify suspects, there's nothing that says you couldn't have markers similar enough to someone else to get flagged for a crime you didn't commit. Even if the accuracy were 99.99999% you'd have 700 people in the world who match, and I highly, highly doubt their accuracy is that high.
Even if it were DNA from the rape, I would have my doubts about their claimed "100%" number. Let's say it's really "only" 99.99%; they have 8000 samples, what are the odds that someone will match? Then you through in the fact that the 99.99% probably includes a truly random sample, which a small town is most assuredly not, and the odds of finding a false positive increase even more.
The rating system was wildly different when the first Andromeda Strain was released. The film was released to theaters in 1971, but I'd be willing to bet that the MPAA applied its 'G' rating the year before in 1970 when the only choices were G(eneral audiences), M(ature audiences), R(estricted), X. And the nudity in Andromeda Strain is fleeting and utterly non-sexual, even today it wouldn't force the movie out a PG rating. At absolute worst Andromeda Strain would land a PG13 rating today (a rating that simply didn't exist at the time).
Yes, it's probably theoretically possible to create interference patterns with gravity waves, but that doesn't mean you can make a negative gradient. Think about light, you can one light source interfere with and completely cancel out another (in principal anyway) but that doesn't mean that you can create negative brightness. You can reduce the brightness down to the base state, 0 but not below. Similarly, you can possibly, with enough energy and mass, create a region of space time with 0 curvature, that doesn't mean you can create a negative curvature, which is what stable wormholes and warp drives require.
If we have the technology to make a negative gravitational gradient (which all the FTL theoretical engines require, incidentally) you can do a lot of neat stuff. Make a ball of negative mass matter and let go and watch it shoot straight up just for kicks. Of course, there's absolutely no reason to expect that such a material is possible; oh sure, the math works out if you assume it can exist, but that doesn't mean that it is physically possible.
You watch over your 13 year old every minute of every day? 13 is more than old enough to have a private life and private activities, in fact I would argue that trying to deny them that would have a much worse effect on society than downloading music does. How long does it take to install some peer to peer software and hide it? 20 minutes? Maybe 5 minutes to queue up each song and move it to the device of your choice. Yeah, letting your teenager have 30 minutes on a PC without your supervision should be a criminal offense. Not digging through every file on the family PC should be a criminal offense. Not spying on your children should be a criminal offense. That all makes perfect sense.
These are bio-hazard level 3 and level 4 labs. The same procedures that are used to study diseases like Smallpox and Ebola. Know where else in the US facilities like these exist? Boston, Richmond Virginia, San Antonio Texas, Atlanta Georgia, and Fort Detrick Maryland (less than 50 miles from Washington DC). So, investigating highly contagious, highly lethal diseases in major population centers is ok, but investigating animal diseases with the same precautions in cattle country isn't? This just screams NIMBA or Pork or both.
And if you yell "fire" in a theater and there is no fire, you will be kicked out.
It's kind of a shame that things have changed so much that this phrase has lost all meaning. (Well, I mean, it's good that our fire codes have improved so a fire isn't so insanely dangerous, but I digress.) Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is about annoying people, or even causing a panic. It's about killing people. Sometimes dozens of people. Several hundred people crammed into a dark, fabric filled room (not to mention all the flammable clothing) with a single exit? Lot's of people died in fires in those kinds of conditions and yelling fire was all but guaranteed to cause a stampede to the exit leaving people injured and dead. That is what the supreme court ruled was not protected, using speech in such a way that you know will cause harm and death to other people. And they had to argue that all the way to the supreme court to get a final decision: now think how easily our rights are eroded today and compare.
For reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Surrey_Gardens
No, but they should absolutely reject someone who says "anyone accused of abusing children is disgusting and needs to be thrown in prison for the rest of their life". Why? Because accused != guilty.
5x more power than NAND
This seems confusing to me, because arguably it's going to use significantly less power than NAND. If I have something to write and it takes NAND 10s at 10w to write it, that's 100J of energy. MRAM would take .02s at 50w, that's 1J of energy. Unless I'm missing something? Seems like they could have quoted that to be both more accurate and show their product in a better light.
I tried going to cyanogenmod.com and got redirected to cyanogenmod.org. Maybe someone realized that what he was doing wasn't just unethical, but also most likely illegal.
No one's ever had that idea before.
The police have power over us (it's a power that we grant them as part of their job). Power corrupts and attracts the corrupt, maybe not everyone every time, but often enough that every major police force in the world is going to have a handful of officers who simply should not be given that power. That small handful is more than enough to turn the majority of citizens against the police if they are allowed to continue to operate.
It doesn't have to be kicking down the wrong door at 4 AM with guns blazing, and it is just as often a cop who is will to do "a favor" for a friend and take care of a "problem" that they have. My daycare provider for instance, had a dog that barked, annoying yes, but the dog was also completely harmless. One day, the gate was mysteriously left open, 10 minutes later the cops were there with a citation (based only on the statement of 1 person that the dog was loose). When she asked for an explanation, suddenly there were 3 cop cars outside her house... for a loose dog. When she went to the police station to file a complaint, she was denied a complaint form, detained for 2 hours, and had a background check done (which after more than an hour of checking "found" that her license was expired (and it wasn't - apparently there was a 'clerical error')).
A) If he had answered "yes" to the strong feelings question, the next question would have been "How so?", this isn't a check the boxes test that they take and no one ever looks at.
B) The attitude that Samsung takes issue with is one in which the patent holder is always right simply by virtue of being the patent holder. Patents are law, but that doesn't mean that every accusation made by a patent holder is valid.
C) When you combine B with the influence he reportedly had over the jury during deliberations, you can easily get a situation where a case should be thrown out. Having what is for all intents and purposes a representative of one of the parties interests (since his overlap with theirs) in the jury room, interacting 1 on 1 with the other jurors, even in a position of authority over them (by virtue of being the jury foreman) is poisoning the pool.
If Samsung con convincingly establish that this is what happened they absolutely have a valid case.
My 1 year old daughter can be deceitful. He did nothing wrong in the course of his duties. The only semi-plausible argument is that the situation could have put in in a position to be blackmailed; which, incidentally was the logic used to deny homosexuals security clearances for decades, effectively blacklisting them from several lucrative industries.
This election wasn't just about Obama vs Romney, I would argue that wasn't even the most important race taking place, especially given that anyone objective enough to look at actual polling data knew the conclusion before the first ballot was caste on the 6th. If I were a republican, I'd be more worried about the number of senate races they lost. I'd be more worried about the fact that they lost the popular vote if you add up all the house races (only maintaining a 40 seat lead in the house thanks to a metric shit-ton of gerrymandering in 2010). I'd be more worried that 60% of voters think that taxes should go up for the richest people and only 35% thought that taxes shouldn't go up for anyone. And that 65% of voters think there should be a path to legal residency for illegal immigrants.
And if I were a social conservative, I'd be terrified that 60% of voters in this election think that abortion should be legal for all circumstances. And that more people think same sex marriage should be recognized than not (49% to 46%). Not to mention that Wisconsin (of all places) just elected the first openly gay senator.
Things are changing the US. It wasn't just that Romney was unlikable, it wasn't just that he had to pander to the base to get elected. Over the past 8 years conservative, republican positions have become more and more untenable to the majority of voters.
And this at a company where we only sell somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 machines per year. He can pay for his cost to the company for the year by saving perhaps $150 per machine.
How much do they pay him!? Seems like if he can trim even $15 per machine the company has come out ahead, for $150 they should give him a raise, a bonus, and 3 interns to help find the next batch of savings.
"Their kids" could easily be in their upper 20s and low 30s so I don't really see a problem with that. The issue they're going to have to tackle if they really want to include the original characters is how to fill in everything that happened between the end of 6 and the start of 7, with no gimmicky flashbacks or half hour speeches. Especially if you center the plot on their because almost by definition, their children are going to be filled on on what's been going on, which doesn't make it easy to introduce the information to the audience. There's a reason the mono-myth starts with a weakling outsider who gets introduced to the magical world step by step along with the audience.