One of the interesting things I've noticed over the past 10+ years of working in IT is that more and more companies are asking questions like "How many patents do you have?" on job applications.
Combine with the graduate degree requirement that's slowly coming into practice and a BS/BA doesn't seem to be worth much nowadays.
oh I agree 100%. I only meant "amusing" in the "you said that implying it was in our future when in fact it's already happened" sense.
I'm not sure how people who support the "war on drugs" can even rationalize this crazy step. Wouldn't it be better to give financial aid to people trying to turn their life around?
She was found based on her SS# and DOB. The government did have plenty of reasons to have this info prior to 9/11. Frankly I'm shocked they didn't have even this basic data together earlier. I guess I'm not as cynical as I thought.
... this massive database that spies deeply into our lives...
Yes, deeply intrusive data like our social security numbers and dates of birth. My God can you imagine any legitimate reason why the government should have such sensitive data?
Seriously, why is this such a huge deal. The woman was a fugitive, the government was looking for her, and they found her. I don't care if it's the DHS, FBI, or freakin' local sheriff. She was CONVICTED of murder. People are clearly ignoring the "until proven guilty" part of that famous phrase.
I'd be willing to bet money this girl would have faced an identical charge in the 90's or 80's or 70's etc. Bombing airliners was pretty popular prior to 9/11 and you can be charged for even saying "bomb" in an airport (and it's been that way for a long time, and it's not a purely US thing.)
I agree with pretty much everything you've said, but I wanted to add some facts about Mychael Bell (one of the teens who garnered the most initial support due to his being a good football player.) Not only was he on probation for a previous violent assault, he committed 3 other violent crimes (two of them assaults, one a robbery of some kind) while on probation. All of this was factored in for the criminal case.
Simply because of that I don't approve of him being released. He's clearly a violent person and the fact that he's a violent person living in a town with racists shouldn't affect his sentence in any way.
What's nuts is that the police incident reports mention that when cameras weren't present the guy was calm and even apologized at one point.
If you watch that video when he is taken downstairs you can see a bit of this. He stops yelling until the camerawoman catches up and he sees her. Also note that the camera for that video was his, and he gave it to the girl holding it asking her to tape him asking questions.
So he may not be nuts in the way he appears, but he's clearly nuts in how much attention he seems to have wanted.
no, they were trying to handcuff him and he was swinging his arms around. If you watch this video you can clearly hear the cops telling him to put his hands behind his back, and see them wrestling with his arms before they taser him. You can also clearly hear the cops warning him he would be tazed.
He was resisting arrest and I don't feel any pity for him even before I factor in the knowledge that he was apparently well known on campus for doing things to get publicity.
I'm not sure how this would really affect tracking where people go by cab. Currently they find out someone took a cab, they track down the cab, and they ask the driver and look at the cab's logs (which keep track of where/when a person was picked up/dropped off.)
As far as linking it to credit cards, they don't even need GPS for that. Just get the credit card records of the person and they instantly know where they were.
I'm glad someone pointed this out (and I wish I had mod points, as you'll probably won't get many with this crowd.) If you call someone who has a tap on their phone the feds don't need to get a warrant to listen to your call, since you're talking to someone they have a warrant for. If you call someone outside the US (or they call you) the feds don't need a warrant to listen in on that person's calls.
It seems insane to me that people don't think intelligence and law enforcement agencies should be allowed to listen in on calls outside the US when it's entirely possible for any country the lines pass through to listen in.
I also write "ASK FOR ID" on all my cards, and it worked great until I went to Vienna. Little shop near St. Stephen's Cathedral had a woman working there who spoke zero English and she started yelling at me because my signature didn't match what was on my card. I should have just signed the slip "ASK FOR ID" too.
Others have pointed out your error in assuming Apple jumped in at just the right time, however this part bears comment:
The tie-in with iTunes helped too.
The iTunes Music Store didn't come along until 2003, the iPod was released in 2001. Ergo there was no real "tie-in" until well after the iPod had taken off. Unless you want to argue that it was "tied-in" with the software used to update the iPod, in which case nearly every MP3 player was "tied-in" to some software.
I think the cell market is actually very similar to the early mp3 player market (although bigger) in that it has a bunch of products that all have terrible interfaces. If nothing else maybe Apple will shake things up enough that someone out there will actually innovate with phone design, as opposed to just cramming more in.
The color of their skin isn't the only common factor:
Cambodia: Directly related to Vietnam, which was a problem created mostly by the French.
Rwanda: Former French colony. The French government provided funds and weapons to the French-speaking perpetrators of the genocide.
Darfur: France has significant oil interests with the government of Sudan. Coincidently they adamantly oppose sanctions against the Sudanese government even while that same Sudanese government supports and trains the militias slaughting thousands.
The Octave line of synths all came with schematics. I know most of the Yamaha analogs and the Korg MS series did as well. I suspect a lot of shops withheld them so you'd have to bring it to them to get it fixed.
Synthesizers used to come with schematics too. They stopped when it became largely a collection of custom digital chips. I would imagine it's a similar problem with radios and cell phones. The schematic was there so you (or someone) could service it. But with it all being custom stuff there's not much anyone can do.
But they were hitting a stationary target. In order to get the timing right to hit a moving motorcade they would have to be the luckiest people in the world. Much easier to have someone sitting a block or two away and watching for when the president's car is next to the trashcan or car or whatever they planted the bomb in.
Only in the US you say? Well the Italians had no trouble charging Oriana Fallaci with "defamation of islam." This was while she was dying of cancer.
Given Europe's extremely strict hate speech laws (and the recent EU law banning all hate speech) I'm not exactly sure they have a lot of room to criticize the US.
but I also believe the law is necessary to protect people's right to worship freely.
How exactly does standing outside with a sign on violate someone's right to worship freely? I can see if I'm attacking people to keep them from worshipping however they see fit, but how in the world does your supposed "right" to not be offended trump my right to free speech?
If something I say is such a horrible assault on your faith I would suggest your faith is weak, and that nothing I'm kept from saying will change that.
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One of the interesting things I've noticed over the past 10+ years of working in IT is that more and more companies are asking questions like "How many patents do you have?" on job applications.
Combine with the graduate degree requirement that's slowly coming into practice and a BS/BA doesn't seem to be worth much nowadays.
oh I agree 100%. I only meant "amusing" in the "you said that implying it was in our future when in fact it's already happened" sense.
I'm not sure how people who support the "war on drugs" can even rationalize this crazy step. Wouldn't it be better to give financial aid to people trying to turn their life around?
When speaking of revolutions I find two quotes always provide insight:
"Then how can you speak of a final revolution? There is no final one. Revolutions are infinite." - Yevgeny Zamyatin, from the book We
"Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic." - Albert Camus
What's amusing is that one of your examples has already happened. You can't get federal financial aid if you have a drug conviction.
She was found based on her SS# and DOB. The government did have plenty of reasons to have this info prior to 9/11. Frankly I'm shocked they didn't have even this basic data together earlier. I guess I'm not as cynical as I thought.
... this massive database that spies deeply into our lives...
Yes, deeply intrusive data like our social security numbers and dates of birth. My God can you imagine any legitimate reason why the government should have such sensitive data?
Seriously, why is this such a huge deal. The woman was a fugitive, the government was looking for her, and they found her. I don't care if it's the DHS, FBI, or freakin' local sheriff. She was CONVICTED of murder. People are clearly ignoring the "until proven guilty" part of that famous phrase.
I'd be willing to bet money this girl would have faced an identical charge in the 90's or 80's or 70's etc. Bombing airliners was pretty popular prior to 9/11 and you can be charged for even saying "bomb" in an airport (and it's been that way for a long time, and it's not a purely US thing.)
I agree with pretty much everything you've said, but I wanted to add some facts about Mychael Bell (one of the teens who garnered the most initial support due to his being a good football player.) Not only was he on probation for a previous violent assault, he committed 3 other violent crimes (two of them assaults, one a robbery of some kind) while on probation. All of this was factored in for the criminal case.
Simply because of that I don't approve of him being released. He's clearly a violent person and the fact that he's a violent person living in a town with racists shouldn't affect his sentence in any way.
What's nuts is that the police incident reports mention that when cameras weren't present the guy was calm and even apologized at one point.
If you watch that video when he is taken downstairs you can see a bit of this. He stops yelling until the camerawoman catches up and he sees her. Also note that the camera for that video was his, and he gave it to the girl holding it asking her to tape him asking questions.
So he may not be nuts in the way he appears, but he's clearly nuts in how much attention he seems to have wanted.
Looks like it was after they hauled him out.
no, they were trying to handcuff him and he was swinging his arms around. If you watch this video you can clearly hear the cops telling him to put his hands behind his back, and see them wrestling with his arms before they taser him. You can also clearly hear the cops warning him he would be tazed.
He was resisting arrest and I don't feel any pity for him even before I factor in the knowledge that he was apparently well known on campus for doing things to get publicity.
I'm not sure how this would really affect tracking where people go by cab. Currently they find out someone took a cab, they track down the cab, and they ask the driver and look at the cab's logs (which keep track of where/when a person was picked up/dropped off.)
As far as linking it to credit cards, they don't even need GPS for that. Just get the credit card records of the person and they instantly know where they were.
I'm glad someone pointed this out (and I wish I had mod points, as you'll probably won't get many with this crowd.) If you call someone who has a tap on their phone the feds don't need to get a warrant to listen to your call, since you're talking to someone they have a warrant for. If you call someone outside the US (or they call you) the feds don't need a warrant to listen in on that person's calls.
It seems insane to me that people don't think intelligence and law enforcement agencies should be allowed to listen in on calls outside the US when it's entirely possible for any country the lines pass through to listen in.
don't forget the noatime option. Don't want your sharks to be sluggish.
"I wanna decide who lives and who dies!" - Crow T. Robot
I also write "ASK FOR ID" on all my cards, and it worked great until I went to Vienna. Little shop near St. Stephen's Cathedral had a woman working there who spoke zero English and she started yelling at me because my signature didn't match what was on my card. I should have just signed the slip "ASK FOR ID" too.
Others have pointed out your error in assuming Apple jumped in at just the right time, however this part bears comment:
The tie-in with iTunes helped too.
The iTunes Music Store didn't come along until 2003, the iPod was released in 2001. Ergo there was no real "tie-in" until well after the iPod had taken off. Unless you want to argue that it was "tied-in" with the software used to update the iPod, in which case nearly every MP3 player was "tied-in" to some software.
I think the cell market is actually very similar to the early mp3 player market (although bigger) in that it has a bunch of products that all have terrible interfaces. If nothing else maybe Apple will shake things up enough that someone out there will actually innovate with phone design, as opposed to just cramming more in.
so it's kind of like stealing but spread over millions of people instead of a single victim.
So it's like working for the IRS?
The color of their skin isn't the only common factor:
Cambodia: Directly related to Vietnam, which was a problem created mostly by the French.
Rwanda: Former French colony. The French government provided funds and weapons to the French-speaking perpetrators of the genocide.
Darfur: France has significant oil interests with the government of Sudan. Coincidently they adamantly oppose sanctions against the Sudanese government even while that same Sudanese government supports and trains the militias slaughting thousands.
The Octave line of synths all came with schematics. I know most of the Yamaha analogs and the Korg MS series did as well. I suspect a lot of shops withheld them so you'd have to bring it to them to get it fixed.
Synthesizers used to come with schematics too. They stopped when it became largely a collection of custom digital chips. I would imagine it's a similar problem with radios and cell phones. The schematic was there so you (or someone) could service it. But with it all being custom stuff there's not much anyone can do.
They used the alarm clock function.
But they were hitting a stationary target. In order to get the timing right to hit a moving motorcade they would have to be the luckiest people in the world. Much easier to have someone sitting a block or two away and watching for when the president's car is next to the trashcan or car or whatever they planted the bomb in.
and dead people don't
Except in Chicago.
Only in the US you say? Well the Italians had no trouble charging Oriana Fallaci with "defamation of islam." This was while she was dying of cancer.
Given Europe's extremely strict hate speech laws (and the recent EU law banning all hate speech) I'm not exactly sure they have a lot of room to criticize the US.
but I also believe the law is necessary to protect people's right to worship freely.
How exactly does standing outside with a sign on violate someone's right to worship freely? I can see if I'm attacking people to keep them from worshipping however they see fit, but how in the world does your supposed "right" to not be offended trump my right to free speech?
If something I say is such a horrible assault on your faith I would suggest your faith is weak, and that nothing I'm kept from saying will change that.