So instead you have all your locks designed so that a convicted burglar knows exactly how they are set up, how they work, etc, etc.
What do you think happens when things get tight and he decides to return to his previous profession. Guess what locations are at the top of his list, with all the weaknesses already mapped out (and probably inserted intentionally in the first place).
Seriously computer programmers put back doors in their code all the time, accountants steal from the clients, "professional hackers" leave some of the holes open for themselves later, someone with a criminal history is more likely to re-offend than someone without one is to offend.
I know who I don't want designing my security system.
OK, didn't know that - not being American and all that.
Why would you bother with it then? Testing actual ability seems more useful, other than I guess for doing a comparison of "yes your school did rank number 1, but your students have a significantly higher SAT scores than other schools, so it probably has nothing to do with your actual teaching".
All heuristics are algorithm (assuming the computer science definition of heuristic). Not all algorithms are heuristics though (sometimes we get to have our cake and eat it too).
There hasn't been a terrorist attack on US soil since 9-11. Either the US has succeeded in thwarting them or they haven't tried again. I couldn't tell you.
Depends how you define "terrorist attack". Is mailing anthrax to people a terrorist attack? Blowing up mailboxes (and injuring half a dozen people)? A bomb in a park during the Olympic Games? Shooting up the El Al counter at LAX? Shooting tourists at the Empire State Building? Three weeks of random sniping?
Depending on which you classify as "terrorist attacks" determines if there have been more or less on US soil in the 6 years pre and 6 years post 9-11. And do you count the ones that didn't succeed, either because the people were incompetent, or because they were arrested before hand?
Isn't is the job of the police to collect evidence AFTER a crime is committed, not to kill people they think may commit a crime?
Those things aren't mutually exclusive. They have both jobs.
When crime has been committed the police investigate. When a crime is being committed the police try and stop it.
I take it that if someone had a gun pointed at your head with police all around you want them to wait until he shoots you so they can start collecting evidence, and not to try and stop him from shooting you in the first place which may involve using deadly force? After all the gun mightn't be loaded.
Having a bomb strapped to your body in an airport is certainly a crime, and certainly puts other people in danger. Notice, that she wasn't shot so the procedures that require confirming a threat before using deadly force in this case worked, and Darwin loses.
You're in grad school but you couldn't see that the US dollar was going to drop like a stone?
It's been pretty obvious, for many years. It's amazing it's taken so long to get this far - the virtual printing presses have been running hot for a long time, there's a reason they stopped publishing M3 and it's got nothing to do with cost. And it's going to go further, much further if Bernanke keeps bailing out his mates in Wall Street.
If your are living off savings and those savings are in a currency other than that of where you live you are playing the forex markets, if you don't want to gamble on them convert it when you move - that way your "income" in local currency won't change. If you want to bet on currency movements then keep it elsewhere - turns out you bet wrong.
And yes for those with lots of their investment in US currency or US companies (other than those that have a lot of non-US revenue) this sucks. And it's going to suck harder before it gets better.
REI is a great co-op, they send members profit sharing each year. Spend more and they make a profit, you get a big fat return at the end of the year (which you spend on more stuff, a never-ending cycle).
What you really mean, is
1. Join co-op 2. Assign most expensive books you can find as required materials for courses you teach 3. ??????^W students buy books from co-op 4. Profit!
""" But police officials acknowledged that the tactical team, using bulletproof vests, high-powered weapons and other police tools, serves nearly all of the warrants after an investigation has found probable cause to seize evidence """
""" It was revealed this year that more than 100,000 DNA samples had been taken from children, aged ten to 16, who have never been charged or convicted of any crime. """
2) How do you think police moved resisting people before tasers?
They hit them with their night sticks until they ceased resisting. And then carried them out, dropping them to beat them some more if they resisted again in the process.
Symmetric just means the processors are equivalent (they all do the same generic tasks)... As opposed to an asymmetric system where different processors are assigned different roles (one does interrupts, one does graphics, one does IO, etc)...
That destination was outside my apartment. Every day. dozens of police cars parked along 1st Ave, who then drive off in said convoy. Good time to "do crime" over on the west side of town I suspect...
So you got from the article basically exactly what was stated in the sentence you trimmed from your quote of my paragraph?
Or are you just disagreeing with the motivational aspect? In which case from the article:
""" Well educated in the ways of successful insurgency, they will come home embittered by a lost war, by friends dead and crippled for life to no purpose. """
Note, I don't agree with everything in that article, it just happened to be the flip side of the post I replied to.
The bringing it home, was American soldiers pissed off with the government for getting their friends killed and providing the standard "not a lot" support once they get back home and the war is done returning to their previous lives, not the military establishment learning anything. Some percentage of which (given normal demographics and probability) return to criminal elements or plain old gang life, except now they know all about the details of using an IED to take out a police car.
Note: a tiny number of people - the vast majority of American soldiers are normal law abiding citizens before they were soldiers and will return to such after they finish being soldiers, but the whole idea is that insurgent tactics don't require large numbers, they're designed to work against the superior force after all.
There's also the flip side, that US soldiers get to see how effective terrorist tactics are against an better trained and equipped force, and bring that knowledge and experience back home with them: http://www.counterpunch.org/lind12062006.html
Because of course if Windows didn't exist those people just wouldn't use computers at all. After all their wouldn't be some other operating system filling the space, the world would just be without desktop computers...
In some Australian States truth is not a defense in a libel case either (so even if what you stated is true you can still lose the case), making it even more fun.
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So instead you have all your locks designed so that a convicted burglar knows exactly how they are set up, how they work, etc, etc.
What do you think happens when things get tight and he decides to return to his previous profession. Guess what locations are at the top of his list, with all the weaknesses already mapped out (and probably inserted intentionally in the first place).
Seriously computer programmers put back doors in their code all the time, accountants steal from the clients, "professional hackers" leave some of the holes open for themselves later, someone with a criminal history is more likely to re-offend than someone without one is to offend.
I know who I don't want designing my security system.
And they will put it off and do other things until the due date is long past.
really?
"Below is the story of my adventure, originally published on The Escapist, and now in its full glory for you, today" didn't give that away?
How about everyone who justs flips the screen closed on their laptop when they're done with it?
OK, didn't know that - not being American and all that.
Why would you bother with it then? Testing actual ability seems more useful, other than I guess for doing a comparison of "yes your school did rank number 1, but your students have a significantly higher SAT scores than other schools, so it probably has nothing to do with your actual teaching".
Because the IQ score gives no useful information.
If the person has a high SAT score but a low IQ score then they are in the "work really hard" group, you want them.
If the person has a high SAT score and a high IQ score then they are in the "gifted" group, you want them.
If the person has a low SAT score and a low IQ score then they are in the "dumb" group, you don't want them.
If the person has a low SAT score and a high IQ score then they are in the "smart but lazy" group, you don't want them.
Since all you don't actually care about the groups, just the "want them"/"don't want them" decisions IQ provides nothing.
All heuristics are algorithm (assuming the computer science definition of heuristic). Not all algorithms are heuristics though (sometimes we get to have our cake and eat it too).
The house example on the other hand is crap. Once you have price rises like: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/113/2109/1600/shillergraph.gif there's only way to go, and once it starts you offload as fast as you can since last out loses most.
There hasn't been a terrorist attack on US soil since 9-11. Either the US has succeeded in thwarting them or they haven't tried again. I couldn't tell you.
Depends how you define "terrorist attack". Is mailing anthrax to people a terrorist attack? Blowing up mailboxes (and injuring half a dozen people)? A bomb in a park during the Olympic Games? Shooting up the El Al counter at LAX? Shooting tourists at the Empire State Building? Three weeks of random sniping?
Depending on which you classify as "terrorist attacks" determines if there have been more or less on US soil in the 6 years pre and 6 years post 9-11. And do you count the ones that didn't succeed, either because the people were incompetent, or because they were arrested before hand?
Isn't is the job of the police to collect evidence AFTER a crime is committed, not to kill people they think may commit a crime?
Those things aren't mutually exclusive. They have both jobs.
When crime has been committed the police investigate. When a crime is being committed the police try and stop it.
I take it that if someone had a gun pointed at your head with police all around you want them to wait until he shoots you so they can start collecting evidence, and not to try and stop him from shooting you in the first place which may involve using deadly force? After all the gun mightn't be loaded.
Having a bomb strapped to your body in an airport is certainly a crime, and certainly puts other people in danger. Notice, that she wasn't shot so the procedures that require confirming a threat before using deadly force in this case worked, and Darwin loses.
You're in grad school but you couldn't see that the US dollar was going to drop like a stone?
It's been pretty obvious, for many years. It's amazing it's taken so long to get this far - the virtual printing presses have been running hot for a long time, there's a reason they stopped publishing M3 and it's got nothing to do with cost. And it's going to go further, much further if Bernanke keeps bailing out his mates in Wall Street.
If your are living off savings and those savings are in a currency other than that of where you live you are playing the forex markets, if you don't want to gamble on them convert it when you move - that way your "income" in local currency won't change. If you want to bet on currency movements then keep it elsewhere - turns out you bet wrong.
And yes for those with lots of their investment in US currency or US companies (other than those that have a lot of non-US revenue) this sucks. And it's going to suck harder before it gets better.
1 USD = 1.001 CAD
Nice job Bernanke, keep lowering that rate to keep your mates in Wall Street happy.
I mean you can push the DOW to 25,000 with a few more rate cuts. Sadly though you're running out of bullets...
REI is a great co-op, they send members profit sharing each year. Spend more and they make a profit, you get a big fat return at the end of the year (which you spend on more stuff, a never-ending cycle).
What you really mean, is
1. Join co-op
2. Assign most expensive books you can find as required materials for courses you teach
3. ??????^W students buy books from co-op
4. Profit!
Swat doesn't get called unless there is a barricade, ongoing threat of life or hostage situation
Or they want to exercise a plain old search warrant.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602136.html
"""
But police officials acknowledged that the tactical team, using bulletproof vests, high-powered weapons and other police tools, serves nearly all of the warrants after an investigation has found probable cause to seize evidence
"""
They're way ahead of you: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412351-details/Outrage+as+DNA+profile+of+seven-month-old+baby+is+added+to+register/article.do
"""
It was revealed this year that more than 100,000 DNA samples had been taken from children, aged ten to 16, who have never been charged or convicted of any crime.
"""
2) How do you think police moved resisting people before tasers?
They hit them with their night sticks until they ceased resisting. And then carried them out, dropping them to beat them some more if they resisted again in the process.
Symmetric just means the processors are equivalent (they all do the same generic tasks)... As opposed to an asymmetric system where different processors are assigned different roles (one does interrupts, one does graphics, one does IO, etc)...
Completely obvious and expected would be a better description.
That destination was outside my apartment. Every day. dozens of police cars parked along 1st Ave, who then drive off in said convoy. Good time to "do crime" over on the west side of town I suspect...
So you got from the article basically exactly what was stated in the sentence you trimmed from your quote of my paragraph?
Or are you just disagreeing with the motivational aspect? In which case from the article:
"""
Well educated in the ways of successful insurgency, they will come home embittered by a lost war, by friends dead and crippled for life to no purpose.
"""
Note, I don't agree with everything in that article, it just happened to be the flip side of the post I replied to.
I take it you didn't click the link.
The bringing it home, was American soldiers pissed off with the government for getting their friends killed and providing the standard "not a lot" support once they get back home and the war is done returning to their previous lives, not the military establishment learning anything. Some percentage of which (given normal demographics and probability) return to criminal elements or plain old gang life, except now they know all about the details of using an IED to take out a police car.
Note: a tiny number of people - the vast majority of American soldiers are normal law abiding citizens before they were soldiers and will return to such after they finish being soldiers, but the whole idea is that insurgent tactics don't require large numbers, they're designed to work against the superior force after all.
There's also the flip side, that US soldiers get to see how effective terrorist tactics are against an better trained and equipped force, and bring that knowledge and experience back home with them: http://www.counterpunch.org/lind12062006.html
Because of course if Windows didn't exist those people just wouldn't use computers at all. After all their wouldn't be some other operating system filling the space, the world would just be without desktop computers...
Except Australia isn't part of the US.
In some Australian States truth is not a defense in a libel case either (so even if what you stated is true you can still lose the case), making it even more fun.
As can downloading email while not using the mail application on an iphone - according to the manual that's the default state even.