The problem is that culturally, we practically deify criminal behavior. "Oh no," we say. "That bad bad man killed 30 people!". Then we spend years watching documentaries and specials and movies about how he got away with it for so long.
The president makes.. however much in a given four-year term? Yet it costs him millions more just to get to the position. We do more than just deify criminals. We give them authority and make them our leaders.
Unless you need a fancy video adapter to play Halo. And if you do, you won't buy this kind of computer in the first place.
That's the reason. Probably 90% of the computers out there that are faster than 1GHz are there because, at some point, someone discovered that that new game they were interested in would not run on their old box.
The popularity of UMPCs tells us there's likely a significant market for something like this but UMPCs aren't very suitable for games either. Neither will replace the old 'beige box' anytime soon.
Agreed, the only conspiracy here is one of human nature; The FBI does not like the idea of so many old cases going to re-trial. The fact that there is apparently good reason to suspect the specificity of DNA evidence notwithstanding.
Like any bureaucracy their primary purpose is to maintain the bureaucracy. In the face of that, a mere technical problem won't be a big concern unless somebody makes it so.
When will we get cars that don't need fallible, lazy, often incompetent humans to drive them? Or maybe an efficient mass transit system? You know, like some (backward) parts of the world have had for a century or so.
If this tech is good enough to be more than just another distraction then maybe we should think seriously about letting people do something useful with all that otherwise wasted time. Give us robot cars already.
Driving used to be fun. These days it's just a boring, dangerous, annoying, and expensive chore.
You can try and defend him and glorify him all you want... but as a professional system administrator he should have known that his singular access and pathological behavior was more dangerous than helpful.
True. As a rule, if you are ever in a position where you determine that something like this might become a reasonable thing to do, get out, while you still can.
And yes, that applies to these managers too. They were asleep at the wheel or this would not have happened.
It's 'point-and-click' thinking. A lot of people think 'Why bother with the legwork when the machines will do all that for you at less expense?' It's the same logic that gives us street cameras with no one monitoring them.
Anyone who wonders if it might be somehow be possible to stop increasing govt. monitoring and intrusion in our 'private' lives has only to read this thread to figure it out. Weather it's piracy or this or the insurance companies makes little difference. As far as the mainstream (read; The system) is concerned we are all 'children' who can't be trusted to make the right decisions and so must be monitored.
Get used to the idea that privacy is aberrant, we are going to make that true, if we haven't already.
This is what I'm interested in from SSDs I still do a lot of work on the road in places where I need to do data gathering while driving over roads that sometimes aren't really so much roads as widened animal paths. Big rocks and/or potholes have cost me days worth of data on several occasions.
The Eee, for instance, looks like it would be ideal for my needs.
As I recall those suits were intended to enhance survivability in case of an accidental bridge. The idea was that the current would follow the mesh of the suit instead of the worker's body.
Do people really get airsick that easily?. I know a few can but I've been on several flights in which the plane tilted sideways at ~35 degrees. Only a few people got sick then.
This is true in many places. I once went for a loan and discovered that even though I owned enough property to cover the loan if it came to default they would not do it. It turned out that I was technically homeless at the time. We were renovating some old property that had been condemned. Since it was still legally condemned at that time we were living in a camper while we worked on it.
The bank's reason? Too many people who don't own homes or businesses are bad risks. Well, no surprise there. but we had more than enough invested in the land alone to cover it. The loan officer said that that didn't matter, technically we were homeless and too many homeless people that can afford loans are either drug or sex offenders and thus bad risks.
I'd mod this up if it weren't already at +5. Locally the police have had an unofficial standing agreement with the prostitutes for decades. The ones who attract the most bad publicity get busted come election year, the ones who avoid publicity get overlooked then and through the rest of the year.
Sort of a "You don't screw me, I screw you" proposition.
"Of course, 'the liberal hippies' are spreading FUD all over.. (apparently they WANT more coal-fired power plants?) And yes, Democrats, as judged by their own actions, want higher prices on anything energy-related they do not tightly regulate and collect a chunk of tax dollars on. But they have to leave the laws open-ended some so they can collect those fat contributions every election cycle."
This sort of thinking is what earned the Left it's well-deserved reputation for stupidity. The parts of the country that love coal are also (to a large degree) those that hate anything liberal weather or not it's actually a good idea. Yet the Left continues this foolishness.
It isn't that they don't know this, they do, they just seem to think that any day now cold fusion will be here or maybe crystal power will save us or something. In the meantime solar and wind will work just fine (as long as we get rid of all those factories and learn how to live as a subsistence culture again).
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The problem is that culturally, we practically deify criminal behavior. "Oh no," we say. "That bad bad man killed 30 people!". Then we spend years watching documentaries and specials and movies about how he got away with it for so long.
The president makes.. however much in a given four-year term? Yet it costs him millions more just to get to the position. We do more than just deify criminals. We give them authority and make them our leaders.
That would be common sense. Many people have roughly the common sense of a drunken wombat.
It's geekporn. A geeky girl, soldering, throwing together electronics and showing you her enthousiasm for hacking and electronics? This *IS* porn.
Hear, Hear.
Two words; Land mines.
Unless you need a fancy video adapter to play Halo. And if you do, you won't buy this kind of computer in the first place.
That's the reason. Probably 90% of the computers out there that are faster than 1GHz are there because, at some point, someone discovered that that new game they were interested in would not run on their old box.
The popularity of UMPCs tells us there's likely a significant market for something like this but UMPCs aren't very suitable for games either. Neither will replace the old 'beige box' anytime soon.
Agreed, the only conspiracy here is one of human nature; The FBI does not like the idea of so many old cases going to re-trial. The fact that there is apparently good reason to suspect the specificity of DNA evidence notwithstanding.
Like any bureaucracy their primary purpose is to maintain the bureaucracy. In the face of that, a mere technical problem won't be a big concern unless somebody makes it so.
Beware, I've heard that this model has severe bugs that manifest whenever it identifies someone with the last name Connor.
When will we get cars that don't need fallible, lazy, often incompetent humans to drive them? Or maybe an efficient mass transit system? You know, like some (backward) parts of the world have had for a century or so.
If this tech is good enough to be more than just another distraction then maybe we should think seriously about letting people do something useful with all that otherwise wasted time. Give us robot cars already.
Driving used to be fun. These days it's just a boring, dangerous, annoying, and expensive chore.
You can try and defend him and glorify him all you want... but as a professional system administrator he should have known that his singular access and pathological behavior was more dangerous than helpful.
True. As a rule, if you are ever in a position where you determine that something like this might become a reasonable thing to do, get out, while you still can.
And yes, that applies to these managers too. They were asleep at the wheel or this would not have happened.
It's 'point-and-click' thinking. A lot of people think 'Why bother with the legwork when the machines will do all that for you at less expense?' It's the same logic that gives us street cameras with no one monitoring them.
Laser is both more accurate and harder to counter. Why do they still use radar guns anyway?
Anyone who wonders if it might be somehow be possible to stop increasing govt. monitoring and intrusion in our 'private' lives has only to read this thread to figure it out. Weather it's piracy or this or the insurance companies makes little difference. As far as the mainstream (read; The system) is concerned we are all 'children' who can't be trusted to make the right decisions and so must be monitored.
Get used to the idea that privacy is aberrant, we are going to make that true, if we haven't already.
This is what I'm interested in from SSDs I still do a lot of work on the road in places where I need to do data gathering while driving over roads that sometimes aren't really so much roads as widened animal paths. Big rocks and/or potholes have cost me days worth of data on several occasions.
The Eee, for instance, looks like it would be ideal for my needs.
Women's emotions reflect those of men. In order to know what women want one must first know what men want.
Given that the human race achieved peace only by pointing nuclear warheads at itself, good luck!
As I recall those suits were intended to enhance survivability in case of an accidental bridge. The idea was that the current would follow the mesh of the suit instead of the worker's body.
Do people really get airsick that easily?. I know a few can but I've been on several flights in which the plane tilted sideways at ~35 degrees. Only a few people got sick then.
From what I can recall (I'm going from old memories here) most airship crashes were caused by structural failure brought about by violent weather.
Yes, it probably is, but the ISP's involved just don't give a damn.
This is true in many places. I once went for a loan and discovered that even though I owned enough property to cover the loan if it came to default they would not do it. It turned out that I was technically homeless at the time. We were renovating some old property that had been condemned. Since it was still legally condemned at that time we were living in a camper while we worked on it.
The bank's reason? Too many people who don't own homes or businesses are bad risks. Well, no surprise there. but we had more than enough invested in the land alone to cover it. The loan officer said that that didn't matter, technically we were homeless and too many homeless people that can afford loans are either drug or sex offenders and thus bad risks.
Not really. Most people I know still think that's creepy.
I'd mod this up if it weren't already at +5. Locally the police have had an unofficial standing agreement with the prostitutes for decades. The ones who attract the most bad publicity get busted come election year, the ones who avoid publicity get overlooked then and through the rest of the year.
Sort of a "You don't screw me, I screw you" proposition.
People do just that, actually, it's just that the ones who don't absorb all the attention.
"Of course, 'the liberal hippies' are spreading FUD all over.. (apparently they WANT more coal-fired power plants?) And yes, Democrats, as judged by their own actions, want higher prices on anything energy-related they do not tightly regulate and collect a chunk of tax dollars on. But they have to leave the laws open-ended some so they can collect those fat contributions every election cycle."
This sort of thinking is what earned the Left it's well-deserved reputation for stupidity. The parts of the country that love coal are also (to a large degree) those that hate anything liberal weather or not it's actually a good idea. Yet the Left continues this foolishness.
It isn't that they don't know this, they do, they just seem to think that any day now cold fusion will be here or maybe crystal power will save us or something. In the meantime solar and wind will work just fine (as long as we get rid of all those factories and learn how to live as a subsistence culture again).
From what I've heard, in Japan and Taiwan 'geek' still = gamer.
Logical, we have a three-branch govt. for this same reason. Unfortunately we only have two 'electable' parties so the system has broken down.