I can. I live in an apartment building with extremely noisy neighbors - I believe they are training elephants to dance upstairs. At any rate, I need to wear earplugs whenever sleeping, coding, reading.... pretty much all the time.
The only change would be that City Council records are excised automatically from the database, and requesting any such information about City Council members will become a felony.
What should concern you is that governments and law enforcement get ever increasing access to your data, and the false positive rate for their data mining techniques is doubtlessly high. And when they drag you away in some pre-crime effort, you have little recourse.
I think you give them (the governments and law enforcement) too much credit. Where were these crack investigators when James Holmes was stockpiling massive amounts of ammunition, tactical gear, and bomb-making chemicals? He bought them openly on the internet and had them shipped right to his home. He even sent a notebook full of details about his plans, including drawings and illustrations of the planned massacre to a psychologist who worked at the University he just dropped out of.
don't see what we gain as a society at all by creating incentives for people to live lives without doing anything. What's the purpose, to have them fill all of the available space, so that eventually there is again a problem of 'haves and have nots' in perpetuity?
Yes, let's just euthanize the do-nothing elderly, disabled, and parasitic welfare recipients. They're no more useful than bacteria. That will free up lots of resources that could be better spent on you.
Methinks this article is more about the boundless potential of human creativity when applied to technological problem solving, and not so much ballistics.
Given that this sort of radiation is not typically encountered in everyday activity, why would anyone think to defend against it? Casual use of millimeter-wave scanners is quite a recent phenomenon. Hard to fault the pump's engineers for not foreseeing that one.
Your argument is exactly bass-ackwards. Given that "this sort of radiation in not typically encountered in everyday activity" the onus is on the TSA to insure that the radiation does not cause malfunctions in embedded medical equipment.
So either marketing departments are really good at marketing the need for a marketing department, or maybe there are a few tools available to cut through the crap and figure out which data out of the mountain of data is actually important and relevant, and which isn't.
And the answer is: marketing departments are really good at marketing the need for a marketing department
Why, when so many tech companies were opposed to SOPA, are they behind CISPA? What benefit are they now being offered that they weren't before?
SOPA required tech companies to spend money and allocate resources toward something that did not benefit them. CISPA gives the tech companies unrestrained ability to profit from selling what was previously considered your private data. As a bonus, the law provides them immunity from lawsuits, so no matter what they do with the data, lawful or not, they cannot be held accountable.
... it's frequently cheaper to just pay than to take time off work to go through the list with somebody that knows what all those codes mean.
Actually, it's cheaper not to pay and dispute the charges. Then it's up to the provider to prove that the charges are legitimate. Which they won't do, because it's cheaper for them not to.
Oh man, that's rich. So, users are just "stupid" and "hard to reach"? I think "pissed off" is more like it.
Or apathetic. I'm just speaking for myself here but there's nothing on their site so compelling to me that I'm willing to open my wallet for it. Another way to look at it is there is a foreseeable downside to giving my payment information to any site on the internet and this case it's just not worth it.
If i recall correctly Senator Sanders of Vermont filed a bill in Congress to break up financial institutions deemed "to large to fail". Whether it has any chance of passing I have no idea. Still, I'd like to see it expanded to include *any* large corporation and enacted before tax payers get bilked out of a few trillion more dollars.
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but who can argue that it's not a disadvantage?
I can. I live in an apartment building with extremely noisy neighbors - I believe they are training elephants to dance upstairs. At any rate, I need to wear earplugs whenever sleeping, coding, reading .... pretty much all the time.
This is an obvious opportunity for a FOSS solution, yet no one sees it. Much more fun to bicker, I guess.
The only change would be that City Council records are excised automatically from the database, and requesting any such information about City Council members will become a felony.
Step 5: Run for City Council.
No one really -likes- Obama, no one really -likes- Romney.
Huh? I like Obama. That's why I voted for him.
So, two and half men?
What should concern you is that governments and law enforcement get ever increasing access to your data, and the false positive rate for their data mining techniques is doubtlessly high. And when they drag you away in some pre-crime effort, you have little recourse.
I think you give them (the governments and law enforcement) too much credit. Where were these crack investigators when James Holmes was stockpiling massive amounts of ammunition, tactical gear, and bomb-making chemicals? He bought them openly on the internet and had them shipped right to his home. He even sent a notebook full of details about his plans, including drawings and illustrations of the planned massacre to a psychologist who worked at the University he just dropped out of.
Security "theater" is just that - a fiction.
If all advertising dies tomorrow, the world will be a better place.
Try developing a product and not advertising it. Observe that you have no buyers. Perhaps then you'll discover the need for advertising.
don't see what we gain as a society at all by creating incentives for people to live lives without doing anything. What's the purpose, to have them fill all of the available space, so that eventually there is again a problem of 'haves and have nots' in perpetuity?
Yes, let's just euthanize the do-nothing elderly, disabled, and parasitic welfare recipients. They're no more useful than bacteria. That will free up lots of resources that could be better spent on you.
The death penalty is a non-issue. The US prosecution simply has to promise they won't seek the death penalty.
Is indefinite detention without being accused of a crime really any better? </rhetorical question>.
A basketball player is also able to predict with very close precision where his jump shot will land.
... unless they've played for the Charlotte Bobcats...
You must be new here.
Methinks this article is more about the boundless potential of human creativity when applied to technological problem solving, and not so much ballistics.
Second, the circuitry wasn't designed for this sort of radiation, since it's never encountered outside a lab - as even the summary makes clear.
Obviously, it is encountered outside a lab. She was in an airport, not a laboratory.
Given that this sort of radiation is not typically encountered in everyday activity, why would anyone think to defend against it? Casual use of millimeter-wave scanners is quite a recent phenomenon. Hard to fault the pump's engineers for not foreseeing that one.
Your argument is exactly bass-ackwards. Given that "this sort of radiation in not typically encountered in everyday activity" the onus is on the TSA to insure that the radiation does not cause malfunctions in embedded medical equipment.
So either marketing departments are really good at marketing the need for a marketing department, or maybe there are a few tools available to cut through the crap and figure out which data out of the mountain of data is actually important and relevant, and which isn't.
And the answer is: marketing departments are really good at marketing the need for a marketing department
Why, when so many tech companies were opposed to SOPA, are they behind CISPA? What benefit are they now being offered that they weren't before?
SOPA required tech companies to spend money and allocate resources toward something that did not benefit them. CISPA gives the tech companies unrestrained ability to profit from selling what was previously considered your private data. As a bonus, the law provides them immunity from lawsuits, so no matter what they do with the data, lawful or not, they cannot be held accountable.
While someone who is still just a programmer after twenty years is someone stuck in a rut doing grunt work.
Good point. I'm even wondering why someone who has spent 20 years doing grunt work would want to do even more of it.
A wide eyed wonder boy (no, that's NOT racist) ...
Well, actually it is racist, anonymous coward.
You hear what you want to hear, I guess. To me, "I smell bacon" means breakfast is nearly ready.
... it's frequently cheaper to just pay than to take time off work to go through the list with somebody that knows what all those codes mean.
Actually, it's cheaper not to pay and dispute the charges. Then it's up to the provider to prove that the charges are legitimate. Which they won't do, because it's cheaper for them not to.
"has incentive"
Unless you're driving your car and hit a cyclist. That generally gets you nothing at all.
For hitting an elusive target like that you get bonus points for style.
Oh man, that's rich. So, users are just "stupid" and "hard to reach"? I think "pissed off" is more like it.
Or apathetic. I'm just speaking for myself here but there's nothing on their site so compelling to me that I'm willing to open my wallet for it. Another way to look at it is there is a foreseeable downside to giving my payment information to any site on the internet and this case it's just not worth it.
If i recall correctly Senator Sanders of Vermont filed a bill in Congress to break up financial institutions deemed "to large to fail". Whether it has any chance of passing I have no idea. Still, I'd like to see it expanded to include *any* large corporation and enacted before tax payers get bilked out of a few trillion more dollars.