So net result is that their is money available for jobs within the company to get higher salaries, and some jobs move to other companies.
Whoa! Dude, where exactly did this happen anywhere.
You do not understand how it works.
The most wealthy people need more money, because if they don't get more money, they won't be able to create jobs.
The poorer people need less money, because giving them more money just makes them lazy. It sounds like a contradiction, but you can look that up in the Bible.
The WF thing is interesting since WF has been unusually profitable compared to other banks for several years now. It was claimed to be better managment but now you have to wonder how deep the rot is?
I understand that they are going to replace those US citizens fired with H1-B criminals from India.
Your deciding that the lack of it is turning the iPhone into an inferior product is just silly.
But maybe I'll hang onto them so I can sell them to people on the black market, make boo-coo bucks.
...beaucoup? Nobody will be interested in buying your stock of cheap made-in-china-for-pennies headphones.
Whatever you do, don't pay attention to the conversation. It makes you sound intelligent.
The iPhone has always been an inferior product for the technically minded (which is a tiny percentage of the market).
Let old Uncle Olsoc sit ya down for a little chat.
It's a fucking phone. The best fucking phone in the world isn't day old dogshit to a lowly computer. So your bloviating about one or another's technical merits if like going on about being the world's tallest midget. It might be the tallest midget, but its still a gaddamned midget. But hey, if you get wood because you have the ultimate techically advanced phone, will then okay. We're sooooooo impressed!
Otherwise yer jus talkin' shit. BooCoo impressed. annymise cewerwd. Bawd fermenting on pourpoize.
And on my families iPhone's our earbuds are still in their nice little plastic cases. Got four of them now, never used, not once.
To the earbuds that come with the iPhone, I, too, would leave them in their original packaging.... And then pull out my Sennheiser headphones, or tape adapter (for the car) or otherwise.
Point is, at least for me, I use my iPhone as a telephone. I know that's screwed up, but hey, as an Apple product user, most of slashdot would agree with that, amiright?
You left out antenna for the FM radio. Oops, the iPhone never had an FM radio, something even cheap flip phones have had pretty much forever. Apple is no longer a leader in innovation, which is why their market share continues to drop. Looks like Tim Cook cooked their goose.
No 'Murrican phones do FM even though all of them have the ability. 'Murrican manufacturers didn't want FM.
Customer won't. Don't gimme what I want? I won't buy.
I somehow predict that we'll soon see a development akin to how it was in the East Bloc, where you'd pay more for a used, old model than a new one simply because the new variants are inferior.
And on my families iPhone's our earbuds are still in their nice little plastic cases. Got four of them now, never used, not once.
If an earphone jack is an overriding factor, then by all means get a different phone. Your deciding that the lack of it is turning the iPhone into an inferior product is just silly.
But maybe I'll hang onto them so I can sell them to people on the black market, make boo-coo bucks.
Currently a UCSF student. Many people don't realize this but UCSF is exclusively a medical professional school with no undergraduate degrees. Students here are a minority compared to the system of hospitals run by professionals. https://www.ucsf.edu/about/eco...
I wouldn't be too smug, because looking around, most medical professionals aren't from the US.these days, and perhaps non-citizens should replace US citizen doctors.
Maybe its time for UCSF to go under. That'll save a lot of money
Kindasorta. A modern Linux distro is pretty darned easy to install and use. Boot from CD with an internet connection, and a couple clicks later, you are cookin'.
Yet despite this users preferred even Windows Vista to Linux.
And flies really like cow manure.
I have convinced a number of grandmas to switch to Linux Mint. Not many complaints.
Of course, because they just want web browsing and email. Just about any system would be just fine for them, in fact an iPad is usually a better choice because they have proper accessibility features and aren't going to suffer issues when systemd decides to fail to start up.
Oh look, the systemd hater shows up and this discussion is ended my dear Troll, Go back to the Youtube discussion boards, Trollerena.
I wish I could agree about "On the Linux side, there's no pooch screwing.", though admittedly the only system problem I have won't affect most people. But Gnome3 was a terrible event, and my first glimpse of KDE5 has caused me to revert to KDE4. It's true, however, that in either of these cases I could switch to xfce or LXDE, and get most of what I want. Still, neither is as much what I was as was either Gnome2 or KDE4 (or KDE3 back when the applications supported the KDE3 libraries).
Try out Ubuntu Mate. I changed most of my linux machines to that, I even have it on a RP3. Wife's is still Mint.
Or a USB port, or a store that sells external USB CD drives.
2. All the hardware and peripherals work with Linux (often true with modern distros, but not always)
And you can find that out by running a live distro. The last time I had a problem with a driver was the Sound driver on a Toshiba satellite in 2009And that was just waiting a day and one was posted.
3. The user can give the finger to their Doze software (dual-booting is harder than just having one OS)
I must not be operating around the right people. If dual booting is too hard to click a couple buttons during install, and highlighting the desired boot in grub, then exactly how are people going to fix their webcam or soundcard when a W10 update fucks their computer?
You need to be really really smart to install and use Linux, better to stick with W10, then what? I guess you just buy a new computer because everything is too damn hard....
> I have convinced a number of grandmas to switch to Linux Mint. Not many complaints.
I've found that for the roughly 80% of users who only use the computer to access the web (including Gmail or other web-based email), the only time they care about the OS is when an update breaks something. For these users, 99% of the time, all the OS is doing is hosting the web browser. A long term stable Linux works great for them, CentOS or Ubuntu LTS.
My wife loved her old laptop, it booted in seconds, the battery lasted all day, it was small and light. It didn't matter at all to her that it was a Chromebook, so the almost only program it could run was Chrome. That's all she wanted.
Agreed! I have a Chromebook as well. It's cheap and fast, easy on the batteries and reliable. Take it with me to breakfast and on vacation, and I don't worry if it gets lost. A mail reader that isn't too bad, I have my other computers to do serious work on. And if by chance I have to do some work on vacation, I boot into linux on it. Impressive to see the little thing boot and run Linux off that SSD. My wife's computer is a once upon a time Windows 8 machine touchscreen laptop that I installed Linux Mint on after she refused to use W8 after trying it for a month. She loves it now.
This brings up an important aspect of modern computing. If most people only use the basics like email and browsers, Windows 10 isn't the best OS for the job - not even close. Considering the unreliability of it, its near the bottom of the list.
While most linux distros are damn easy to install. It's not so easy for an average user anymore. Most new laptops and desktops are missing that cdrom drive all together and making a bootable usb disk isn't as easy as burning an iso (which many people are incapable of doing anyway).
Installing an OS might as well be magic for 70% of users.
FIrst world intellectual problems I'd think. If making a bootable thumbdrive or getting a cheap USB CD drive is beyond most people Then they deserve to use W10, as a punishment. Christ, we're gonna have to have an app to tell us to breathe next.
If herpderp is considered how we have to make computers, its a matter of "play stupid games - win stupid prizes." May I [resent for everyone's approval... Windows 10.
Has multimonitor support in linux ever been decent? i've always been a windows user, and when 10-15 years ago i was playing around with linux a bit, my first issue was up to date display drivers (i had a pretty bleeding edge graphics card back then). But after that was resolved, multimonitor support was abysmal compared to windows >__. I was really frustrated by the poor support of something so basic)
Yes, because even thought Windows has moved on, Linux is exactly like it was 15 years ago.
Hey, let's talk about how shitty Windows 1 was. Or I'm always up for discussions about 286 intel computers.
That's not really a fair comparison because your average Linux user and your average Windows users probably have very different skill sets when it comes to computers.
Kindasorta. A modern Linux distro is pretty darned easy to install and use. Boot from CD with an internet connection, and a couple clicks later, you are cookin'.
Your average Windows user got it pre-installed when they purchased their laptop/desktop and has absolutely no idea how to upgrade it. They'll stick with whatever it had when it first arrived and only upgrade when they get new hardware with a new version pre-installed.
I have convinced a number of grandmas to switch to Linux Mint. Not many complaints. I can even show how easy it is to install. But yes, the average Windows user is mostly clueless.
The large Windows 7 install base also has to take into account the number of business users which are still buying brand new hardware (which probably comes with Win10) but then installing Windows 7 on it from some kind of image. Large companies take a very long time to upgrade to the latest version of even simple software, never mind an entire OS upgrade with all the regression testing that involves. My last company had over 60,000 employees worldwide and was just rolling out a huge Windows 7 upgrade when Windows 8.1 had already been released!
All part of the Vista legacy. It seems like forever ago, but the nightmares involved with the early adopters of Vista, especially the lack of drivers for a lot of contemporary peripherals, birthed a new mindset.
It felt pretty good when after having been forced to implement a Vista system of computers, I got to go into a meeting and inform the folks, all much smarter than me, that they were now going to have to replace almost all their printers and scanners.
But what are these businesses going to do soon? Microsoft solutions are getting pretty bad.
Me like pictures, especially if they of purdy wimmin!
For extra credit, consider the reasons why Linux users have happily moved on from Linux 2.6.x from 2009, but many Windows users are still using Windows 7.
Because Windows 8 was designed by people on acid, and Windows 10 aka Russian Roulette Edition, might just screw your pooch when it updates? Windows seven just kinda sits there and does it's job?
I've decided to abandon W10 after the third update screw-up. I have the same setup on a W7 computer that has enjoyed 100 percent uptime.
On the Linux side, there's no pooch screwing. I can update or change to my heart's content, the only limitations being processor speed.
Please just shut the fuck up.......squawk squawk !! Windows 10!! squawk squawk !! NSA in a black van outside your door!! squawk squawk !! The OS spies on my pr0n surfing!! squawk squawk !!
pssst - hey buddy? He's as crazy as a shithouse rat, and you managed to sound even crazier! Coffee withdrawal? Stopped smoking? I dunno, but time to relax.
>Um huh, give me the citations of exactly how dogs olfactory organs operate. And thanks, I'm always happy to be edumacated by an expert. Here's the thing. and this is what will happen.
Apparently, what a dog smells is very much determined by if the handler wants to find something there or not.
Is that link scientific enough for you?
So what you are sayinng is that when the dog finds anything, the dog actually finds nothing, or else finds something that the handler knows is already there?
What you are referring to in that "experiment" was a re-enactment of what is called the Clever Hans phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... And yes, an animal can and often does take cues from a trainer of handler.
Does it follow then that in 100 percent of cases, that the dog is taking a cue form the handler? As shown in the experiment, there were no actual positives. to be had!!! Please explain the scientific aspects of a test where it is impossible to have a positive identification? There was only false positives based on Clever Hans. This test, for whatever reason was designed to have the outcome that it had. Oddly enough, a little bit of Clever Hans in whoever was calling themselves researchers, it would seem. Therefore, the experiment was not remotely scientific, it was designed to implement the Clever Hans solution, exactly. You could use that to have the doggo count to 10 as well.
Final answer - Nope - it's not scientific enough for me. It's something that was designed to have a specific result from the beginning.
Does it work? No. But that depends on your definition of "work."
But Drug dogs work perfectly for law enforcement: they provide whatever answer the police want and the gullible public believe the dogs are infallible.
You might just not know how dogs behave.
Um huh, give me the citations of exactly how dogs olfactory organs operate. And thanks, I'm always happy to be edumacated by an expert.
Here's the thing. and this is what will happen.
Doggo merely makes things a little easier. When the police have a warrant, they can tear your house, car, and life apart, ad they can make you shit through filter paper for a week in case you swallowed the thing and you will comply. Doggo not specifically needed. The police just keep hunting. they aready had probable cause, and any thumb drive Fogle might have had is just one more piece of evidence.
And tell me, if the dog found the drive, but couldn't find the drive because dogs can't find the drives, then how did the dog find the drive? As noted before, the Police can turn your life and belongins upside down, so are you saying that they would have found the drive anyhow, the dog was completely superfluous, and they just brought the dog along for the lulz?
Or are you saying they took their own kiddie porn of the exact girl that Fogle and hid buddy were yencing, and planted it on a drive that doggo pretended to find?
Especially interesting since Fogle is suing the parents of said underage girl for creating a situation where she rebelled and became his girltoy. So what is your story, Alex?
Please answer, because I really want to know how police wanted to find the exact kiddie porn Fogle had, that miraculously he didn't have before they apparently planted the evidence. This is getting pretty good here Alex. So keep digging,
Is this a voodoo divining rod, or an actually-useful tool? It's hard to tell in the field, with so much electronic stuff everywhere.
Probably not Voodoo. I doubt that a dog would ever be brought in to sniff for thumb drives in general, but there was already a case building against Fogle, and they just were looking for corroborating evidence. As for the smell of electronics, hell I can smell them, so I'm certain that a dog will do just fine.
The smell of electronics would be on everything, and the dog wouldn't be able to sniff out anything useful.
Depends on who and when you are looking for something. Using Fogle's example, they are going to take every piece of electronic storage in the house and go over it as part of the criminal investigation. A false positive means nothing, they'll just move on to the next thing the doggo alerts at. Outside of a criminal investigation, the doggo probably won't ever be used - at least for that. There's just too many of the devices sitting around.
I fear you might not know just how accurate some critter's sense of smell is.
The advertising angle will make any useful functionality too shitty to bother with. What are the chances that I'll be able to program it to order the milk for delivery from the cheapest source, rather than Samsung's limited choice of expensive "partners"?
I'm certain that these wonderful devices will come with electronic rather than mechanical door latches.This will open a whole new world of consumer convenience. The door won't open until you watch an advertisement.
Then I can just imagine Forbes.com getting involved.......... Then your Refrigerator sassing you - "We see that you have adblock enabled on your Refrigerator. Please disable it to allow opening the door and to continue accessing your food."
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So net result is that their is money available for jobs within the company to get higher salaries, and some jobs move to other companies.
Whoa! Dude, where exactly did this happen anywhere.
You do not understand how it works.
The most wealthy people need more money, because if they don't get more money, they won't be able to create jobs.
The poorer people need less money, because giving them more money just makes them lazy. It sounds like a contradiction, but you can look that up in the Bible.
All the honest employees had already been fired.
The WF thing is interesting since WF has been unusually profitable compared to other banks for several years now. It was claimed to be better managment but now you have to wonder how deep the rot is?
I understand that they are going to replace those US citizens fired with H1-B criminals from India.
Your deciding that the lack of it is turning the iPhone into an inferior product is just silly.
But maybe I'll hang onto them so I can sell them to people on the black market, make boo-coo bucks.
...beaucoup? Nobody will be interested in buying your stock of cheap made-in-china-for-pennies headphones.
Whatever you do, don't pay attention to the conversation. It makes you sound intelligent.
The iPhone has always been an inferior product for the technically minded (which is a tiny percentage of the market).
Let old Uncle Olsoc sit ya down for a little chat.
It's a fucking phone. The best fucking phone in the world isn't day old dogshit to a lowly computer. So your bloviating about one or another's technical merits if like going on about being the world's tallest midget. It might be the tallest midget, but its still a gaddamned midget. But hey, if you get wood because you have the ultimate techically advanced phone, will then okay. We're sooooooo impressed!
Otherwise yer jus talkin' shit. BooCoo impressed. annymise cewerwd. Bawd fermenting on pourpoize.
And on my families iPhone's our earbuds are still in their nice little plastic cases. Got four of them now, never used, not once.
To the earbuds that come with the iPhone, I, too, would leave them in their original packaging. ... And then pull out my Sennheiser headphones, or tape adapter (for the car) or otherwise.
Point is, at least for me, I use my iPhone as a telephone. I know that's screwed up, but hey, as an Apple product user, most of slashdot would agree with that, amiright?
"you can play the game one-handed for the very first time."
Who would WANT that? That's disgusting!
I dunno - one hand image viewers are pretty popular.
You left out antenna for the FM radio. Oops, the iPhone never had an FM radio, something even cheap flip phones have had pretty much forever. Apple is no longer a leader in innovation, which is why their market share continues to drop. Looks like Tim Cook cooked their goose.
No 'Murrican phones do FM even though all of them have the ability. 'Murrican manufacturers didn't want FM.
i get tacos at a great local place and they have a square reader, it reads the mag stripe on my chip and pin without complaint.
as such, i continue to get tacos.
Don't worry, when Trump is elected, those taco places are going to go away.....
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
So either they hook up through the analog adapter or they design a Lightning version.
...and pay royalties to Apple.
Ka-ching!
Or go Bluetooth, and pay royalties to someone else.
Paying for things is bad.
Customer won't. Don't gimme what I want? I won't buy.
I somehow predict that we'll soon see a development akin to how it was in the East Bloc, where you'd pay more for a used, old model than a new one simply because the new variants are inferior.
And on my families iPhone's our earbuds are still in their nice little plastic cases. Got four of them now, never used, not once.
If an earphone jack is an overriding factor, then by all means get a different phone. Your deciding that the lack of it is turning the iPhone into an inferior product is just silly.
But maybe I'll hang onto them so I can sell them to people on the black market, make boo-coo bucks.
Currently a UCSF student. Many people don't realize this but UCSF is exclusively a medical professional school with no undergraduate degrees. Students here are a minority compared to the system of hospitals run by professionals. https://www.ucsf.edu/about/eco...
I wouldn't be too smug, because looking around, most medical professionals aren't from the US.these days, and perhaps non-citizens should replace US citizen doctors.
Maybe its time for UCSF to go under. That'll save a lot of money
This university should lose it's state and federal funding for doing something like this.
Horrible insult to the USA, our students, and our educators.
Terrible.
The football team needs that money - they had to hire in-house parole officers, and they don't come cheap you know.
Kindasorta. A modern Linux distro is pretty darned easy to install and use. Boot from CD with an internet connection, and a couple clicks later, you are cookin'.
Yet despite this users preferred even Windows Vista to Linux.
And flies really like cow manure.
I have convinced a number of grandmas to switch to Linux Mint. Not many complaints.
Of course, because they just want web browsing and email. Just about any system would be just fine for them, in fact an iPad is usually a better choice because they have proper accessibility features and aren't going to suffer issues when systemd decides to fail to start up.
Oh look, the systemd hater shows up and this discussion is ended my dear Troll, Go back to the Youtube discussion boards, Trollerena.
I wish I could agree about "On the Linux side, there's no pooch screwing.", though admittedly the only system problem I have won't affect most people. But Gnome3 was a terrible event, and my first glimpse of KDE5 has caused me to revert to KDE4. It's true, however, that in either of these cases I could switch to xfce or LXDE, and get most of what I want. Still, neither is as much what I was as was either Gnome2 or KDE4 (or KDE3 back when the applications supported the KDE3 libraries).
Try out Ubuntu Mate. I changed most of my linux machines to that, I even have it on a RP3. Wife's is still Mint.
That makes several assumptions:
1. The computer still has a CD drive
Or a USB port, or a store that sells external USB CD drives.
2. All the hardware and peripherals work with Linux (often true with modern distros, but not always)
And you can find that out by running a live distro. The last time I had a problem with a driver was the Sound driver on a Toshiba satellite in 2009And that was just waiting a day and one was posted.
3. The user can give the finger to their Doze software (dual-booting is harder than just having one OS)
I must not be operating around the right people. If dual booting is too hard to click a couple buttons during install, and highlighting the desired boot in grub, then exactly how are people going to fix their webcam or soundcard when a W10 update fucks their computer?
You need to be really really smart to install and use Linux, better to stick with W10, then what? I guess you just buy a new computer because everything is too damn hard....
> I have convinced a number of grandmas to switch to Linux Mint. Not many complaints.
I've found that for the roughly 80% of users who only use the computer to access the web (including Gmail or other web-based email), the only time they care about the OS is when an update breaks something. For these users, 99% of the time, all the OS is doing is hosting the web browser. A long term stable Linux works great for them, CentOS or Ubuntu LTS.
My wife loved her old laptop, it booted in seconds, the battery lasted all day, it was small and light. It didn't matter at all to her that it was a Chromebook, so the almost only program it could run was Chrome. That's all she wanted.
Agreed! I have a Chromebook as well. It's cheap and fast, easy on the batteries and reliable. Take it with me to breakfast and on vacation, and I don't worry if it gets lost. A mail reader that isn't too bad, I have my other computers to do serious work on. And if by chance I have to do some work on vacation, I boot into linux on it. Impressive to see the little thing boot and run Linux off that SSD. My wife's computer is a once upon a time Windows 8 machine touchscreen laptop that I installed Linux Mint on after she refused to use W8 after trying it for a month. She loves it now.
This brings up an important aspect of modern computing. If most people only use the basics like email and browsers, Windows 10 isn't the best OS for the job - not even close. Considering the unreliability of it, its near the bottom of the list.
While most linux distros are damn easy to install. It's not so easy for an average user anymore. Most new laptops and desktops are missing that cdrom drive all together and making a bootable usb disk isn't as easy as burning an iso (which many people are incapable of doing anyway).
Installing an OS might as well be magic for 70% of users.
FIrst world intellectual problems I'd think. If making a bootable thumbdrive or getting a cheap USB CD drive is beyond most people Then they deserve to use W10, as a punishment. Christ, we're gonna have to have an app to tell us to breathe next.
If herpderp is considered how we have to make computers, its a matter of "play stupid games - win stupid prizes." May I [resent for everyone's approval... Windows 10.
Has multimonitor support in linux ever been decent? i've always been a windows user, and when 10-15 years ago i was playing around with linux a bit, my first issue was up to date display drivers (i had a pretty bleeding edge graphics card back then). But after that was resolved, multimonitor support was abysmal compared to windows >__. I was really frustrated by the poor support of something so basic)
Yes, because even thought Windows has moved on, Linux is exactly like it was 15 years ago.
Hey, let's talk about how shitty Windows 1 was. Or I'm always up for discussions about 286 intel computers.
That's not really a fair comparison because your average Linux user and your average Windows users probably have very different skill sets when it comes to computers.
Kindasorta. A modern Linux distro is pretty darned easy to install and use. Boot from CD with an internet connection, and a couple clicks later, you are cookin'.
Your average Windows user got it pre-installed when they purchased their laptop/desktop and has absolutely no idea how to upgrade it. They'll stick with whatever it had when it first arrived and only upgrade when they get new hardware with a new version pre-installed.
I have convinced a number of grandmas to switch to Linux Mint. Not many complaints. I can even show how easy it is to install. But yes, the average Windows user is mostly clueless.
The large Windows 7 install base also has to take into account the number of business users which are still buying brand new hardware (which probably comes with Win10) but then installing Windows 7 on it from some kind of image. Large companies take a very long time to upgrade to the latest version of even simple software, never mind an entire OS upgrade with all the regression testing that involves. My last company had over 60,000 employees worldwide and was just rolling out a huge Windows 7 upgrade when Windows 8.1 had already been released!
All part of the Vista legacy. It seems like forever ago, but the nightmares involved with the early adopters of Vista, especially the lack of drivers for a lot of contemporary peripherals, birthed a new mindset.
It felt pretty good when after having been forced to implement a Vista system of computers, I got to go into a meeting and inform the folks, all much smarter than me, that they were now going to have to replace almost all their printers and scanners.
But what are these businesses going to do soon? Microsoft solutions are getting pretty bad.
Should I draw you a picture?
Me like pictures, especially if they of purdy wimmin!
For extra credit, consider the reasons why Linux users have happily moved on from Linux 2.6.x from 2009, but many Windows users are still using Windows 7.
Because Windows 8 was designed by people on acid, and Windows 10 aka Russian Roulette Edition, might just screw your pooch when it updates? Windows seven just kinda sits there and does it's job?
I've decided to abandon W10 after the third update screw-up. I have the same setup on a W7 computer that has enjoyed 100 percent uptime.
On the Linux side, there's no pooch screwing. I can update or change to my heart's content, the only limitations being processor speed.
Please just shut the fuck up.......squawk squawk !! Windows 10!! squawk squawk !! NSA in a black van outside your door!! squawk squawk !! The OS spies on my pr0n surfing!! squawk squawk !!
pssst - hey buddy? He's as crazy as a shithouse rat, and you managed to sound even crazier! Coffee withdrawal? Stopped smoking? I dunno, but time to relax.
>Um huh, give me the citations of exactly how dogs olfactory organs operate. And thanks, I'm always happy to be edumacated by an expert. Here's the thing. and this is what will happen.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-010-0373-2/fulltext.html
Apparently, what a dog smells is very much determined by if the handler wants to find something there or not.
Is that link scientific enough for you?
So what you are sayinng is that when the dog finds anything, the dog actually finds nothing, or else finds something that the handler knows is already there?
What you are referring to in that "experiment" was a re-enactment of what is called the Clever Hans phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... And yes, an animal can and often does take cues from a trainer of handler.
Does it follow then that in 100 percent of cases, that the dog is taking a cue form the handler? As shown in the experiment, there were no actual positives. to be had!!! Please explain the scientific aspects of a test where it is impossible to have a positive identification? There was only false positives based on Clever Hans. This test, for whatever reason was designed to have the outcome that it had. Oddly enough, a little bit of Clever Hans in whoever was calling themselves researchers, it would seem. Therefore, the experiment was not remotely scientific, it was designed to implement the Clever Hans solution, exactly. You could use that to have the doggo count to 10 as well.
Final answer - Nope - it's not scientific enough for me. It's something that was designed to have a specific result from the beginning.
Does it work? No. But that depends on your definition of "work."
But Drug dogs work perfectly for law enforcement: they provide whatever answer the police want and the gullible public believe the dogs are infallible.
You might just not know how dogs behave.
Um huh, give me the citations of exactly how dogs olfactory organs operate. And thanks, I'm always happy to be edumacated by an expert. Here's the thing. and this is what will happen.
Doggo merely makes things a little easier. When the police have a warrant, they can tear your house, car, and life apart, ad they can make you shit through filter paper for a week in case you swallowed the thing and you will comply. Doggo not specifically needed. The police just keep hunting. they aready had probable cause, and any thumb drive Fogle might have had is just one more piece of evidence.
And tell me, if the dog found the drive, but couldn't find the drive because dogs can't find the drives, then how did the dog find the drive? As noted before, the Police can turn your life and belongins upside down, so are you saying that they would have found the drive anyhow, the dog was completely superfluous, and they just brought the dog along for the lulz? Or are you saying they took their own kiddie porn of the exact girl that Fogle and hid buddy were yencing, and planted it on a drive that doggo pretended to find? Especially interesting since Fogle is suing the parents of said underage girl for creating a situation where she rebelled and became his girltoy. So what is your story, Alex? Please answer, because I really want to know how police wanted to find the exact kiddie porn Fogle had, that miraculously he didn't have before they apparently planted the evidence. This is getting pretty good here Alex. So keep digging,
Is this a voodoo divining rod, or an actually-useful tool? It's hard to tell in the field, with so much electronic stuff everywhere.
Probably not Voodoo. I doubt that a dog would ever be brought in to sniff for thumb drives in general, but there was already a case building against Fogle, and they just were looking for corroborating evidence. As for the smell of electronics, hell I can smell them, so I'm certain that a dog will do just fine.
The smell of electronics would be on everything, and the dog wouldn't be able to sniff out anything useful.
Depends on who and when you are looking for something. Using Fogle's example, they are going to take every piece of electronic storage in the house and go over it as part of the criminal investigation. A false positive means nothing, they'll just move on to the next thing the doggo alerts at. Outside of a criminal investigation, the doggo probably won't ever be used - at least for that. There's just too many of the devices sitting around.
I fear you might not know just how accurate some critter's sense of smell is.
The advertising angle will make any useful functionality too shitty to bother with. What are the chances that I'll be able to program it to order the milk for delivery from the cheapest source, rather than Samsung's limited choice of expensive "partners"?
I'm certain that these wonderful devices will come with electronic rather than mechanical door latches.This will open a whole new world of consumer convenience. The door won't open until you watch an advertisement.
Then I can just imagine Forbes.com getting involved.......... Then your Refrigerator sassing you - "We see that you have adblock enabled on your Refrigerator. Please disable it to allow opening the door and to continue accessing your food."
His argument is ridiculous. We need to provide MORE so people can spend spend spend. Truly American.
Is this the Poe-boy argument?