The irony is believing that the guy who is more knowledgeable, only asks questions and never accepts any responsibility because "he said during the meeting that there would be problems", is in any way more useful than the guy who gives snappy answers without the knowledge.
At some point a decision has to be made, and raising questions without a plan of what to do for each possible response, is just the non productive self-preservation mechanism of the knowledgeable.
I find this piece of advertisement to be too article-shaped.
The tone is way to sober and objective. If you read carefully you'll find that some of the data are actually facts! I refuse to accept this kind of newsy look-at-me-writing-articles crap in Slashdot.
If we start accepting this kind of posts, soon we'll end up having news for nerds. Or even stuff that matters, god forbid.
The fact that we need a court to decide that "embedding a copyrighted YouTube video in your site is not copyright infringement." is already a failure of the system as a whole.
Next we'll have the court deciding that "Mentioning the fact that you saw a video on YouTube is not copyright infringement as long as you specify you don't know whether the video was copyrighted or otherwise."
(I now wonder if this post is copyright infringement. After all, I'm replying an article about a court ruling about people who embedded in their web pages videos from Youtube which were copyrighted!... OMG I don't want to die in prison!)
1 - You are implying retinal transplants, a 20 year old procedure, are impossible. 2 - You are implying age is somehow encoded in the ADN, which is not correct.
A current real tank firing solution makes movement (including momentum, terrain influence and recoil) of tank, turret and weapon, completely transparent for the gunner.
The concern for the criminals during the time of the crime is misplaced.
What about my concern on who decides they are criminals? What if I don't trust the police to make such judgement?
Condemning them isn't necessary - they're in the act of committing a crime.
A crime which sentence is to be decided by judges. Otherwise we might as well replace cops with snipers.
The relevant question then becomes how much force to apply, as any form of force also places the hostages at a risk. The single relevant question thus is, what is the lower risk to the hostages? The best bet is to look at historical outcomes in comparable situations. This is complex. It depends on the number of hostage takers and hostages, the site, time, the background of the hostage taker, etcetera.
That said, negotiation helps with an ill-prepared bank robber turning hostage taker. 10 hostage takers and 500 hostages indicates a lot of preparation, and strongly points at a lack of negotiation options.
I fully agree on the question, but not on the answer. I simply do not wish the police to have the right to decide how many hostages it's ok to kill in a hostage situation. And giving them the weapons to apply the result of that decision is too close to implying they have the right to take it.
I think everyone reasonable agrees that the decision in such a situation is an extremely hard one. For me, that's precisely the reason to place the burden of making that decision far from the people we use to protect us from common criminals. Because those people are the most biased on precisely the taking of that kind of decisions.
Also, if you can save 400 of 500 in a hostage situation and catch all the 10+ terrorists. Go for it. The terrorists would kill them anyway and if they escape, they can continue their business.
"if you can save 400 of 500 in a hostage situation " - Is this the best way to save them? Is this the way to save the most of them? "catch all the 10+ terrorists" - Who judged them? Who decided they are terrorists? "The terrorists would kill them anyway" - Are you a Oracle? Do the police employ oracles or futurologists? "if they escape, they can continue their business" - Are you sure?
So, your scenario is: 1 - The official "police judge" condemns the terrorists with his judging powers that don't require lawyers, juries nor all that hassle. 2 - The official "police oracles" see the future to know how many innocents would the terrorists kill. 3 - Based on the police judge's decision and the police oracle's prediction, the best possible result "killing just a few of the innocents to capture the guilty" is selected and applied with the new weapon.
The "exocomets" article had a six orders of magnitude error. Which in this case would mean saying that the booth scans your entire body in four and a half months. Then, for a measly $100,000,000 they build you a nice 228km high figurine.
To compete in price against anyone you only need money. With enough money, you can set a price of $0.
The main question is "will they be able to recover the cost of that competence once they get the contracts?" and it's way too soon to know the answer to that.
It's like judging the acquisition of online "businesses". Nobody can prove the price was or wasn't right until the buyer makes that back as profit or doesn't.
An entirely preventable software error was responsible for causing 911 service to drop. "It could have been prevented. But it was not,"
So, let us be clear. The error, was not simply preventable but absolutely and completely preventable in all cases. There was no impediment to prevent it. Its prevention was not only possible but also within the reach of any error prevention effort or action. It could have been prevented.
The preventability of the error was absolute. No situation, fictive or factual, in this or other world, would allow a situation in which this error was not preventable.
Finally, it's important to note that the eventual series of events that would lead to the fully avoidable non-prevention of this error, would be unfortunate.
So now the first discoverer is the one who sees it for the first time even if that person doesn't know what it was that he saw? Great! I might be the discoverer of a distant supernova if I'm the first human being whose eye is hit by a photon created during it's explosion!
Now to play the waiting game until someone discovers it. Oh, no, I mean until someone correctly identifies it as a supernova and someone else points out that I am the discoverer, because the photon hit me first.
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The irony is believing that the guy who is more knowledgeable, only asks questions and never accepts any responsibility because "he said during the meeting that there would be problems", is in any way more useful than the guy who gives snappy answers without the knowledge.
At some point a decision has to be made, and raising questions without a plan of what to do for each possible response, is just the non productive self-preservation mechanism of the knowledgeable.
...Yet.
The only thing you need to know is that Mr. Dunning was a complete incompetent. Trust me, I'm good at knowing that kind of things.
You misspelled "experience".
"Experience" together with "As someone who owns an Alienware laptop".
This is weak even for trolling.
It's the geek version of holding a gun sideways on one hand and $20 in single dollar bills on the other.
The day Slashdot finally went beyond 100% advertisement.
Confirmation Bias is your friend.
I find this piece of advertisement to be too article-shaped.
The tone is way to sober and objective. If you read carefully you'll find that some of the data are actually facts! I refuse to accept this kind of newsy look-at-me-writing-articles crap in Slashdot.
If we start accepting this kind of posts, soon we'll end up having news for nerds. Or even stuff that matters, god forbid.
The fact that we need a court to decide that "embedding a copyrighted YouTube video in your site is not copyright infringement." is already a failure of the system as a whole.
Next we'll have the court deciding that "Mentioning the fact that you saw a video on YouTube is not copyright infringement as long as you specify you don't know whether the video was copyrighted or otherwise."
(I now wonder if this post is copyright infringement. After all, I'm replying an article about a court ruling about people who embedded in their web pages videos from Youtube which were copyrighted! ... OMG I don't want to die in prison!)
1 - You are implying retinal transplants, a 20 year old procedure, are impossible.
2 - You are implying age is somehow encoded in the ADN, which is not correct.
A real tank from 1940, maybe.
A current real tank firing solution makes movement (including momentum, terrain influence and recoil) of tank, turret and weapon, completely transparent for the gunner.
That was not made clear in any way in the article. I was actually preparing my curriculum!
(No harm done. I barely got to "Mario Kart Legendary driver.")
The concern for the criminals during the time of the crime is misplaced.
What about my concern on who decides they are criminals? What if I don't trust the police to make such judgement?
Condemning them isn't necessary - they're in the act of committing a crime.
A crime which sentence is to be decided by judges. Otherwise we might as well replace cops with snipers.
The relevant question then becomes how much force to apply, as any form of force also places the hostages at a risk. The single relevant question thus is, what is the lower risk to the hostages? The best bet is to look at historical outcomes in comparable situations. This is complex. It depends on the number of hostage takers and hostages, the site, time, the background of the hostage taker, etcetera.
That said, negotiation helps with an ill-prepared bank robber turning hostage taker. 10 hostage takers and 500 hostages indicates a lot of preparation, and strongly points at a lack of negotiation options.
I fully agree on the question, but not on the answer. I simply do not wish the police to have the right to decide how many hostages it's ok to kill in a hostage situation. And giving them the weapons to apply the result of that decision is too close to implying they have the right to take it.
I think everyone reasonable agrees that the decision in such a situation is an extremely hard one. For me, that's precisely the reason to place the burden of making that decision far from the people we use to protect us from common criminals. Because those people are the most biased on precisely the taking of that kind of decisions.
Also, if you can save 400 of 500 in a hostage situation and catch all the 10+ terrorists. Go for it. The terrorists would kill them anyway and if they escape, they can continue their business.
"if you can save 400 of 500 in a hostage situation " - Is this the best way to save them? Is this the way to save the most of them?
"catch all the 10+ terrorists" - Who judged them? Who decided they are terrorists?
"The terrorists would kill them anyway" - Are you a Oracle? Do the police employ oracles or futurologists?
"if they escape, they can continue their business" - Are you sure?
So, your scenario is:
1 - The official "police judge" condemns the terrorists with his judging powers that don't require lawyers, juries nor all that hassle.
2 - The official "police oracles" see the future to know how many innocents would the terrorists kill.
3 - Based on the police judge's decision and the police oracle's prediction, the best possible result "killing just a few of the innocents to capture the guilty" is selected and applied with the new weapon.
She'd surely pay the $100 for the tenfold improvement.
And what's the *emphasis* equivalent of air quotes? Jazz hands? ...*Naked*....*\o/*
It's an improvement.
The "exocomets" article had a six orders of magnitude error. Which in this case would mean saying that the booth scans your entire body in four and a half months. Then, for a measly $100,000,000 they build you a nice 228km high figurine.
Wake me when he DOES something,
You mean something other than obscene amounts of money, right? Like, end poverty. Or, cure ebola.
To compete in price against anyone you only need money. With enough money, you can set a price of $0.
The main question is "will they be able to recover the cost of that competence once they get the contracts?" and it's way too soon to know the answer to that.
It's like judging the acquisition of online "businesses". Nobody can prove the price was or wasn't right until the buyer makes that back as profit or doesn't.
An entirely preventable software error was responsible for causing 911 service to drop. "It could have been prevented. But it was not,"
So, let us be clear. The error, was not simply preventable but absolutely and completely preventable in all cases. There was no impediment to prevent it. Its prevention was not only possible but also within the reach of any error prevention effort or action. It could have been prevented.
The preventability of the error was absolute. No situation, fictive or factual, in this or other world, would allow a situation in which this error was not preventable.
Finally, it's important to note that the eventual series of events that would lead to the fully avoidable non-prevention of this error, would be unfortunate.
Mod parent up for being absolutely fabulous. Those Dos Equis ad references never get old.
I wouldn't say "never". I agree that they don't get old often.
But when they do...
Unless panic is warranted!
A hacker could hack the hospital doors and windows and everybody would die of starvation sooner or later!
Indeed, so some criteria are needed to established who is the discoverer. As far as I know, one of those criteria is knowing what's being discovered.
So now the first discoverer is the one who sees it for the first time even if that person doesn't know what it was that he saw? Great! I might be the discoverer of a distant supernova if I'm the first human being whose eye is hit by a photon created during it's explosion!
Now to play the waiting game until someone discovers it. Oh, no, I mean until someone correctly identifies it as a supernova and someone else points out that I am the discoverer, because the photon hit me first.
I don't often Isaac Asimov.
But when I do, it's The Isaac Asimov.
I knew I should have been a cyborg lawyer programmer. But I was afraid of ending up just doing cyborg lawyer maintenance.