It's a system that lets retailers, publicans, and restaurateurs share private video footage with the police and each other.
So far so good, it's just like a television show where they take crimes caught on video. Do th crime, do the time - and entertain us as well. Especially if its funny.
That's not pre-crime. That's sharing video footage of actual behavior.
But wait - there's more now. This new system addition uses facial recognition. So a person who may have done something somewhere, sometime can now be identified as soon as they enter the store.
So they can be kicked out. That's the pre-crime part. If a teenager is caught pilfering a pack of gum, we now have entered the age of permanent criminal status, as they can be kicked outy of any store using this system, forever and ever, world without end, Amen.
Kind of like a scarlet lettter you don't have to pin on your lapel. And I for one, don't care for the approaching One Strike and You're Out sort of society this brings. I don't think that part of creating a permanent criminal underclass will be the Nirvana it's proponents visualize it will be either. If you can't buy groceries because you lifted a pack of gum when you were 14 years old, just imagine how you will get your food.
Just curious... why are people on a coding site declaring "Flash needs to die" instead of something like, Flash needs to be
Not that I disagree with your assessment, but Slashdot is "News for Nerds", and has all manner of different categories.
And you'll note that the GP her managed to blame everything on everything else, like the user not setting the right settings, and flash. That's why Microsoft Stuff is so good - everything is the user's fault for allowing it to do what it does.
I wonder - if the trained "coders" will be emigrating to India to get a job?
I wonder - In a world where a lot of people believe you are a criminal if you are really interested in computing and networking , like Britain's National Crime agency http://www.nationalcrimeagency... might just cause some parents to actively steer their children away from computer based careers?
I wonder - if we merely taught science free of political overtones, and allowed the children to develop an interest in critical thinking and didn't crush their natural curiosity, maybe this would all just allow interest coupled with supply and demand to sort things out.
For me, the most disturbing thing is that there are (many apparently) teachers out there who call the cops on young children..
If my son was of school age, I would definitely have him home schooled, or if not - in a charter school. I've seen enough of public schools to know that although you can get an education, in this day and age of "zero tolerance", a child can destroy their entire life, for being a child.
Being arrested should be the very last resort in a school system. Today, it is turning into the first.
Home schooling - it's not just for creationists any more.
To driverless cars. They'll be a driver with the minimal amount of training needed to handle an emergency and the rest gets home by computer. In 30 years the computer will be better at handling the emergencies and the driver will get the boot. My question is what are we gonna do with all the out of work truck drivers. Your not gonna retrain them, there's only so much they can do.
This is awesome! Just not very. So the driver not only has to pass his regular tests, he has to have additional training, and has to remain always at the ready in case the autonomous car does something like veer off the road.
I suspect with this incredible enhancement of the human condition, they will have to so something like they do on the raiload tracks in Western Australia. The rails are so straight and boring that the engineer has to push a button every so often to show he's still awake, or the train engine shuts down.
Meh - call me back when there is some advantage to not driving. This makes driving much worse. Remain vigilant while not being able to do anything.
I guess I couldn't sign up for Facebook, because I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
It's your fault for letting the man eat you. I bet you brought it on yourself, by prancing around looking all delicious, wearing nothing but strategically placed parsley.
One thing I *haven't* seen is a rational explanation of why a temporary ban on Muslim immigration isn't a common-sense response to an immediate problem.
Then your close mindedness is the limitation not reality. There are already nearly 3 million Muslims in America, anything that makes them feel more discriminated against or ramps up the Muslims are dangerous rhetoric (which banning all Muslim immigrants clearly would) is very likely more dangerous than the risk that immigration poses.
I wonder if these folks who support a "temporary suspension" of the first amendment would likewise support a "temporary suspension" of the second amendment?
It's pretty dangerous to go around williy nilly deciding to ignore the constitution, because the law of unintended consequenses is pretty obvious here.
Because if it makes sense to punish a whole lot of innocent people to catch the few who need removed form the gene pool, it likewise makes sense to remove the instruments of killing to prevent the few who use them to kill people with. Same argument, and one takes suspension of the first amendment, the other takes suspension of the second.
Trump is just running interference for Hillary, and having a good time trolling the GOP base at the same time. Why doesn't anyone understand that? Any one of us would do the same, in his position.
I'm about 90% sure this is what's going on.
While on the surface, that seems a little plausible, let's not forget that the base supports him feverishly. Remember, these folks have been pandered to for years, and Trump simply represents their values. Next in line on the popularity scale is Ted Cruz. Who also represents a lot of their values. I would suggest anyone thinking of Cruz investigate his dominionist roots however.
But when your leading candidate is your opposition's greatest asset, running interference comes in a distant second place to the need to ask the question - "What the hell have we created?"
It's like most people who use NoSQL, especially when they're dealing with anything less than petabytes of data, try as hard as they can not to put in the small amount of effort needed to learn now to use relational databases properly.
I've had issues with getting people to even understand relational databases in the first place, including the sortakinda amusing case where under orders, I gave a co-worker one to work with and looking for a progress report a month later, he told us that the entire database didn't work and couldn't work and nothing could be done to make it work. Funny, because it had been in flawless use for years, and not funny because it put me a month behind.
It was also the last time my boss told me "Ol, you have to learn to delegate better".
Sure, but less so than most diets involving meat (disclaimer: not a vegetarian).
But not "non". Veggies take fertilizer, applications of it, irrigation and transport.
Other suggestions might be Eating raw food only, foraging for food, and fasting 2 or 3 days a week, having our diets adjusted so we are just this side of starving to death.
Ridiculous, and no doubt. But If we buy into the idea that going vegan is superior because of less carbon emissions, then the ideas of never cooked veggies, foraging and a mandatory minimum caloric intake are all that much better.
But useless.
The problem is not that people eat meat, the problem is there are so damn many of us eating anything at all.
I agree they're correlated. But poverty has such a huge impact on your chance to actually learn something (and circumstances in poor areas in the USA are even harder than elsewhere in the OECD) that it's hard to get the causation right.
There was a reason that lead was taken out of gasoline. Screws up children, and they grow up with some violent dispositions. The only group benefitting from that is for profit prison stockholders.
The research as been done on prisoners, the lead levels correlated, the most violent tended to have the highest levels. The violent criminals also gridded out to growing up in places where they had access to the lead to get those high levels, and the removal of tetraethyl lead from gasoline then corresponded with a drop in violent crime.
The chiiling aspect is given the general hatred of science these days, that the same studies would be denied, and we'd have politically based denier fueled nonscience keeping tetraethyl lead in gasoline.
It would just be another thing to deny on denialists denial list.
You got it backwards. Low pH is acidic, attacks the lead and forms water soluble lead compounds.
Correct. The acidic water attacks most everything.
Weird side note - My home town only recently replaced it's oldest water distribution pipes Late 1800's vintage - and made of wood.
The town has rather "hard" water.
I sometimes wonder if a lot of these problems are caused by political ideology trying to trump science.
I knew about soft and hard water and it's effects on pipes before I was 10. I cannot imagine these politicians who are very very smart not knowing those effects.
The effects of exposing people to lead in their drinking water should be treated as a criminal offense.
if the lead is coming from the local pipes in people's houses, then how come the lead poisoning started when they switched water sources? That sounds like bee ess.
Inside of the pipes, what is in the water has a chemical effect on the surface. In an area with so called hard water, the ph is higher due to dissolved minerals like calcium, or magnesium lime compounds.
Acidic water on the other hand, will actually corrode away the inside of the pipe, which can include any lead within it.
The hard water higher ph versus acidic lower ph is such a marked difference in reacting with pipes, that there are still some places with Actual lead pipes, that are sorta kinda safe, because the lime minerals precipitate onto the walls of the pipe, sealing off the lead - but it's not so safe it shouldn't be replaced.
What is severely surprising is that the ph of the water was either not tested, or tested then ignored.
Because in a world based on basic physics and science, you don't want acidic water in any municipal pipes. It's just going to attack the pipes and destroy the infrastructure over time.
And if there is one element with a track record of destroying lives, it is lead. You very much want as little lead going into children's bodies, with a goal of zero. It lowers intelligence, and predisposes the victims to violent behavior. Here's a link -http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615
Forbes has some info as well, but they want me to disable my ad blocker.
But here was the case that really put the final nail in the coffin - so to speak - against gay marriage bans.
Thats awful. Here in Australia gay or straight couples are treated the same for tax purposes as formally married couples.
And as time went on, that poor old lady became more and more an object of sympathy. Ironically, the DOMA was the instrument of its own downfall.
Now most of the country is not at all bothered, except for the kooks, like the Kim Davis woman in Kentucky who refused to grant marriage licenses to same sex couples. The political versersion of th kooks annointed her a hero, a moral compass that needed rewarded.
Then it turned out she had two children out of wedlock and was married 4 times. Traditional Christian family values? But as it turned out, her subordinates didn't have an issue with granting the licenses.
No idea why this is down modded. As I commented in another thread the abuse is so rampant, that between shoddy tactics and opening up pages in unrelated sites to mac keeper site, I black hole it at DNS level.
THIS! Also for those who don't block it, at least go to the real site for yer downloads. Doing a search on Libreoffice download shows a lot of sites like Cnet, Softonic, libreofficedownload.com, more downloads.com, Download.com (what?) only two of the pages of links go to libreoffice.org. the rest???
The first thing many of these sites do when you try to download is the next screen you get you see what looks like the button you need, but no sir - it ain't, not at all. You gets a free gift even if you don't want one. Websearches are not our friends. Look at that url.
With the amount of "MacKeeper" subterfuge style pop-up ads that appear all over the place, I've always assumed that it was a scam. Kind of like the random calls you get from India saying your Windows machine has a virus - even if you don't use Windows.
Yes - MacKeeper is for all intents and purposes, Malware. Avoid at all costs.
When hearing challenges to the oddly named Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 2013, they heard the case of Edith Windsor, 83, who had lived with her partner, Thea Spyer for 44 years. They were married in Canada. Speer died in 2009.
In her will, she left everything to Windsor. DOMA made itl law that the Federal Government could not recognize same gender marriage. See where we are going here?
The IRS gave Windsor a $363,000 dollar tax bill. By law. Whereas if I die tomorrow, my wife pays nothing, and gets the entire estate.
I can even now, see the nervous twitches of the more conservative Justices as they pondered one of the most hated conservative railing points, the dreaded death tax, being wielded as a bludgeon against them by them by another of their enemies. Probably looked like the Grinch in the cartoon when he's watching the people in Whoville celebrate Christmas after he stole all the Christmas trimmings and gifts.
But in the end, it was almost impossible to deny that two people living together as wife and wife or whatever, were getting a completely different treatment as demanded by a federal law.
So while the law itself was religion based, the equal protection under the law clause was clearly violated, so it made it easier for them than having to go on the idea that it was a religion based law - likewise unconstitutional, but who wanted to walk into that minefield?
Another tidbit from the story (sorry its Huffpo)
"Marital status is relevant in more than 1,100 federal laws that include estate taxes, Social Security survivor benefits and health benefits for federal employees."
Yikes! I knew there were a lot, but 1100+. And all the state laws as well.
Anyhow there's the case that either made a great breakthrough, or set us on the road to perfidy, depending on your outlook.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a system that lets retailers, publicans, and restaurateurs share private video footage with the police and each other.
So far so good, it's just like a television show where they take crimes caught on video. Do th crime, do the time - and entertain us as well. Especially if its funny.
That's not pre-crime. That's sharing video footage of actual behavior.
But wait - there's more now. This new system addition uses facial recognition. So a person who may have done something somewhere, sometime can now be identified as soon as they enter the store.
So they can be kicked out. That's the pre-crime part. If a teenager is caught pilfering a pack of gum, we now have entered the age of permanent criminal status, as they can be kicked outy of any store using this system, forever and ever, world without end, Amen.
Kind of like a scarlet lettter you don't have to pin on your lapel. And I for one, don't care for the approaching One Strike and You're Out sort of society this brings. I don't think that part of creating a permanent criminal underclass will be the Nirvana it's proponents visualize it will be either. If you can't buy groceries because you lifted a pack of gum when you were 14 years old, just imagine how you will get your food.
Lastly, Flash needs to die
Just curious... why are people on a coding site declaring "Flash needs to die" instead of something like, Flash needs to be
Not that I disagree with your assessment, but Slashdot is "News for Nerds", and has all manner of different categories.
And you'll note that the GP her managed to blame everything on everything else, like the user not setting the right settings, and flash. That's why Microsoft Stuff is so good - everything is the user's fault for allowing it to do what it does.
I wonder - if the trained "coders" will be emigrating to India to get a job?
I wonder - In a world where a lot of people believe you are a criminal if you are really interested in computing and networking , like Britain's National Crime agency http://www.nationalcrimeagency... might just cause some parents to actively steer their children away from computer based careers?
I wonder - if we merely taught science free of political overtones, and allowed the children to develop an interest in critical thinking and didn't crush their natural curiosity, maybe this would all just allow interest coupled with supply and demand to sort things out.
I wonder
We need a bigger Shoe Lobby that has NRA-like influence.
Yes! And I know just the man to lead it: Al Bundy, where are you in our hour of need?
He's been replaced by Cliven Bundy.
For me, the most disturbing thing is that there are (many apparently) teachers out there who call the cops on young children. .
If my son was of school age, I would definitely have him home schooled, or if not - in a charter school. I've seen enough of public schools to know that although you can get an education, in this day and age of "zero tolerance", a child can destroy their entire life, for being a child.
Being arrested should be the very last resort in a school system. Today, it is turning into the first. Home schooling - it's not just for creationists any more.
To driverless cars. They'll be a driver with the minimal amount of training needed to handle an emergency and the rest gets home by computer. In 30 years the computer will be better at handling the emergencies and the driver will get the boot. My question is what are we gonna do with all the out of work truck drivers. Your not gonna retrain them, there's only so much they can do.
This is awesome! Just not very. So the driver not only has to pass his regular tests, he has to have additional training, and has to remain always at the ready in case the autonomous car does something like veer off the road.
I suspect with this incredible enhancement of the human condition, they will have to so something like they do on the raiload tracks in Western Australia. The rails are so straight and boring that the engineer has to push a button every so often to show he's still awake, or the train engine shuts down.
Meh - call me back when there is some advantage to not driving. This makes driving much worse. Remain vigilant while not being able to do anything.
I guess I couldn't sign up for Facebook, because I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
It's your fault for letting the man eat you. I bet you brought it on yourself, by prancing around looking all delicious, wearing nothing but strategically placed parsley.
The mind reels!
Then your close mindedness is the limitation not reality. There are already nearly 3 million Muslims in America, anything that makes them feel more discriminated against or ramps up the Muslims are dangerous rhetoric (which banning all Muslim immigrants clearly would) is very likely more dangerous than the risk that immigration poses.
I wonder if these folks who support a "temporary suspension" of the first amendment would likewise support a "temporary suspension" of the second amendment?
It's pretty dangerous to go around williy nilly deciding to ignore the constitution, because the law of unintended consequenses is pretty obvious here.
Because if it makes sense to punish a whole lot of innocent people to catch the few who need removed form the gene pool, it likewise makes sense to remove the instruments of killing to prevent the few who use them to kill people with. Same argument, and one takes suspension of the first amendment, the other takes suspension of the second.
In other words, let's not go there.
Trump is just running interference for Hillary, and having a good time trolling the GOP base at the same time. Why doesn't anyone understand that? Any one of us would do the same, in his position.
I'm about 90% sure this is what's going on.
While on the surface, that seems a little plausible, let's not forget that the base supports him feverishly. Remember, these folks have been pandered to for years, and Trump simply represents their values. Next in line on the popularity scale is Ted Cruz. Who also represents a lot of their values. I would suggest anyone thinking of Cruz investigate his dominionist roots however.
But when your leading candidate is your opposition's greatest asset, running interference comes in a distant second place to the need to ask the question - "What the hell have we created?"
What's the answer?/p>
The Cloud, trickle down economics, and CoCo-Puffs.
It's like most people who use NoSQL, especially when they're dealing with anything less than petabytes of data, try as hard as they can not to put in the small amount of effort needed to learn now to use relational databases properly.
I've had issues with getting people to even understand relational databases in the first place, including the sortakinda amusing case where under orders, I gave a co-worker one to work with and looking for a progress report a month later, he told us that the entire database didn't work and couldn't work and nothing could be done to make it work. Funny, because it had been in flawless use for years, and not funny because it put me a month behind.
It was also the last time my boss told me "Ol, you have to learn to delegate better".
We can move them.
Are you a Poe, or auditioning for the titular role in a remake of Dr Strangelove?
I guess I couldn't sign up for Facebook, because I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
Sure, but less so than most diets involving meat (disclaimer: not a vegetarian).
But not "non". Veggies take fertilizer, applications of it, irrigation and transport.
Other suggestions might be Eating raw food only, foraging for food, and fasting 2 or 3 days a week, having our diets adjusted so we are just this side of starving to death.
Ridiculous, and no doubt. But If we buy into the idea that going vegan is superior because of less carbon emissions, then the ideas of never cooked veggies, foraging and a mandatory minimum caloric intake are all that much better.
But useless.
The problem is not that people eat meat, the problem is there are so damn many of us eating anything at all.
I agree they're correlated. But poverty has such a huge impact on your chance to actually learn something (and circumstances in poor areas in the USA are even harder than elsewhere in the OECD) that it's hard to get the causation right.
There was a reason that lead was taken out of gasoline. Screws up children, and they grow up with some violent dispositions. The only group benefitting from that is for profit prison stockholders.
The research as been done on prisoners, the lead levels correlated, the most violent tended to have the highest levels. The violent criminals also gridded out to growing up in places where they had access to the lead to get those high levels, and the removal of tetraethyl lead from gasoline then corresponded with a drop in violent crime.
The chiiling aspect is given the general hatred of science these days, that the same studies would be denied, and we'd have politically based denier fueled nonscience keeping tetraethyl lead in gasoline.
It would just be another thing to deny on denialists denial list.
Undeniable!
You got it backwards. Low pH is acidic, attacks the lead and forms water soluble lead compounds.
Correct. The acidic water attacks most everything.
Weird side note - My home town only recently replaced it's oldest water distribution pipes Late 1800's vintage - and made of wood.
The town has rather "hard" water.
I sometimes wonder if a lot of these problems are caused by political ideology trying to trump science.
I knew about soft and hard water and it's effects on pipes before I was 10. I cannot imagine these politicians who are very very smart not knowing those effects.
The effects of exposing people to lead in their drinking water should be treated as a criminal offense.
if the lead is coming from the local pipes in people's houses, then how come the lead poisoning started when they switched water sources? That sounds like bee ess.
Inside of the pipes, what is in the water has a chemical effect on the surface. In an area with so called hard water, the ph is higher due to dissolved minerals like calcium, or magnesium lime compounds.
Acidic water on the other hand, will actually corrode away the inside of the pipe, which can include any lead within it.
The hard water higher ph versus acidic lower ph is such a marked difference in reacting with pipes, that there are still some places with Actual lead pipes, that are sorta kinda safe, because the lime minerals precipitate onto the walls of the pipe, sealing off the lead - but it's not so safe it shouldn't be replaced.
What is severely surprising is that the ph of the water was either not tested, or tested then ignored.
Because in a world based on basic physics and science, you don't want acidic water in any municipal pipes. It's just going to attack the pipes and destroy the infrastructure over time.
And if there is one element with a track record of destroying lives, it is lead. You very much want as little lead going into children's bodies, with a goal of zero. It lowers intelligence, and predisposes the victims to violent behavior. Here's a link -http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615
Forbes has some info as well, but they want me to disable my ad blocker.
Jaysus! It's depressing when people don't even recognize the Third Reich references anymore....
Oh.... I thought that was a quote from Donald Trump.
But here was the case that really put the final nail in the coffin - so to speak - against gay marriage bans.
Thats awful. Here in Australia gay or straight couples are treated the same for tax purposes as formally married couples.
And as time went on, that poor old lady became more and more an object of sympathy. Ironically, the DOMA was the instrument of its own downfall.
Now most of the country is not at all bothered, except for the kooks, like the Kim Davis woman in Kentucky who refused to grant marriage licenses to same sex couples. The political versersion of th kooks annointed her a hero, a moral compass that needed rewarded.
Then it turned out she had two children out of wedlock and was married 4 times. Traditional Christian family values? But as it turned out, her subordinates didn't have an issue with granting the licenses.
No idea why this is down modded. As I commented in another thread the abuse is so rampant, that between shoddy tactics and opening up pages in unrelated sites to mac keeper site, I black hole it at DNS level.
THIS! Also for those who don't block it, at least go to the real site for yer downloads. Doing a search on Libreoffice download shows a lot of sites like Cnet, Softonic, libreofficedownload.com, more downloads.com, Download.com (what?) only two of the pages of links go to libreoffice.org. the rest???
The first thing many of these sites do when you try to download is the next screen you get you see what looks like the button you need, but no sir - it ain't, not at all. You gets a free gift even if you don't want one. Websearches are not our friends. Look at that url.
With the amount of "MacKeeper" subterfuge style pop-up ads that appear all over the place, I've always assumed that it was a scam. Kind of like the random calls you get from India saying your Windows machine has a virus - even if you don't use Windows.
Yes - MacKeeper is for all intents and purposes, Malware. Avoid at all costs.
With inheritance, like anyone else, it helps to have a will.
No doubt about that. But here was the case that really put the final nail in the coffin - so to speak - against gay marriage bans.
United States versus Windsor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Its a pretty good read. Yeah, I know - its HuffPo
When hearing challenges to the oddly named Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 2013, they heard the case of Edith Windsor, 83, who had lived with her partner, Thea Spyer for 44 years. They were married in Canada. Speer died in 2009.
In her will, she left everything to Windsor. DOMA made itl law that the Federal Government could not recognize same gender marriage. See where we are going here?
The IRS gave Windsor a $363,000 dollar tax bill. By law. Whereas if I die tomorrow, my wife pays nothing, and gets the entire estate.
I can even now, see the nervous twitches of the more conservative Justices as they pondered one of the most hated conservative railing points, the dreaded death tax, being wielded as a bludgeon against them by them by another of their enemies. Probably looked like the Grinch in the cartoon when he's watching the people in Whoville celebrate Christmas after he stole all the Christmas trimmings and gifts.
But in the end, it was almost impossible to deny that two people living together as wife and wife or whatever, were getting a completely different treatment as demanded by a federal law.
So while the law itself was religion based, the equal protection under the law clause was clearly violated, so it made it easier for them than having to go on the idea that it was a religion based law - likewise unconstitutional, but who wanted to walk into that minefield?
Another tidbit from the story (sorry its Huffpo) "Marital status is relevant in more than 1,100 federal laws that include estate taxes, Social Security survivor benefits and health benefits for federal employees."
Yikes! I knew there were a lot, but 1100+. And all the state laws as well.
Anyhow there's the case that either made a great breakthrough, or set us on the road to perfidy, depending on your outlook.
At this point I assume you posted the last 4 SC/NC posts yourself.
I can hardly wait until the subject is closed. I'm a mistaken cow! Mistaken cows go Oh, CRAP!
Wrong state, dude.
Very much so - Sorry about that.
Ummm -- Mark Sanford was the governor of *South* Carolina.
QED
Yes indeed, I made what has turned out to be a massive mistake - Sorry about that.