After all, he's blatantly participating in a cover-up of illegal activities in the Arkansas state government.
Either that, or it's just not the job of citizens to go around doing "investigations" into relatively minor breaches of state law.
Look at it this way. Is it more likely that these journalists are true sentinels of fairness and democracy and are about to uncover a massive and elaborate plot to illegally elect Huckabee in '08, or is it more likely that they need someone concrete to point the finger at for a tabloidesque story on an ultimately inconsequential Wikipedia edit.
Of course, such a law is not enforceable except through the courts (that is, after the offense has occurred). My bet is that Google will be more than reasonable in their use of the kill-switch and no one will ever challenge the feature.
whoever setup the hardware in these places needs to be held for criminal negligence
IANA(legal scholar), but this doesn't seem to fit the definition of criminal negligence for two reasons:
1) Doing a bad job at something and allowing others to come to harm isn't enough. Essentially, you must be aware of the risk of your actions (or inaction), or you must intentionally allow yourself too little information to make a proper decision.
2) I'm pretty sure that once you commit a negligent act, it has to be nature that takes something "the rest of the way." If your act simply allows someone else to commit a crime, then the crime falls the perpetrator, not you.
Keep in mind too, that I'm talking about criminal negligence. You can sue in civil courts on a much broader basis.
In fact, I find your entire comment rather ironic, since you imply that the recent crimes will be an excuse for some 1984-state to implement "MORE draconian measures," but then go on to suggest criminalizing what is essentially poor job performance.
Well, with either perchlorates or oxygen, you have an oxidizing agent. The part you're still missing though is the thing to be oxidized.
It's not like the only thing keeping fires in check here on earth is lack of oxygen. There's definitely enough oxygen in the atmosphere to burn things like forests. The real source of energy for a reaction like a forest fire is the chemicals that were at some point created by organisms through the absorption of sunlight.
On presumably lifeless Mars, there is no process by which enough energy coming in from the sun is stored. Therefore you simply cannot have a catastrophic release of energy.
1. OSS story pops up on Slashdot. 2. Someone posts: "Developing OSS is antithetical to making money!!" 3. Deluge of responses: "You're crazy. There're all kinds of ways to make money off OSS. It's the way of the future!"
And Now:
1. Slashdot posts a story about Microsoft showing sympathy towards OSS. 2. Deluge of posts: "This can't be! They must have evil secret motives."
From the video in the article, it seems that the laser was acquiring targets all on its own. It could have been clever editing, but the thing looked like it was working quite well.
I'm not all that surprised, either; it's been quite a while since laser defense was in the public's attention. Plenty of time for technology to advance.
Even accepting the stretch that "failure to know contents of a bill" = "dereliction of duty", it's quite obvious that "dereliction of duty" != "treason".
In fact, even if a congressperson is willfully corrupt, taking bribes and rigging elections, it's still not treason until they willingly act to overthrow the government. There's really no debating this definition (but just in case you try, please provide sources).
Or this would just have the unintended consequence of making judges very reluctant to declare laws unconstitutional, because they don't want to send a legislature to jail.
Oh, so ignorance and stupidity excuse what amounts to treason now?
We all appreciate your enthusiasm, but ignorance of the exact contents of a bill is by no means treason, nor does it "amount" to treason. You know that.
And have you considered that there might be a reason the bill has this exception? Perhaps it's just not feasible to get machines that are both accessible and verifiable before 2009, so they chose to just go with accessible. Your immediate jump to corruption is rather silly and paranoid.
His idea for a 10 year Kennedy-esque-moon-mission-analog of rapidly transforming our energy base from one of fossil fuels to renewable energy is not only a great idea economically for the long term but also great for the short term.
If the Apollo missions had failed, it would have meant some lost money and lost pride. If this sort of plan fails, it could mean a serious depression. Furthermore, Apollo was a government project funded publicly. What you're suggesting goes well into the private sector. I don't know exactly how you plan to tell current energy suppliers that they should just change to renewable sources in ten years. Or are you suggesting that the government should become the main producer of energy?
Any time a country is in an economic slump, the best way to relieve it is by instituting widespread public works projects. Not only do they create short term wealth and job opportunities, but they have sustained maintenance work as well as the overall betterment of society through the finalization of said public work.
The economic model you're working from is called Keynesian Economics. I'm no economist, but I suspect you aren't either. Until a expert in the field comes along, I'll just let you know that it does work like you think. For instance, have you considered that jobs will be lost in the non-renewable energy job markets while they are created elsewhere?
A recent poll (I think it was from last Thursday) said that over 90% of Americans are FOR the rapid mobilization of wind and solar power. It seems everyone's on board for this.
Please provide a source. I highly doubt that the poll wasn't phrased differently or that it was from a reputable agency. If the poll is legit, then I have to conclude that the American public has given in to fear and hype.
Which leaves me to wonder, if neither Obama nor McCain seem to have any desire to embrace it, is it finally time for a viable third candidate, one who represents the publics opinion?
Perhaps you should look into the Green Party? Then you should look into why they consistently lose.
And out of respect to Mr. Gore, I hope you've misrepresented his plan.
And that's the point! This algorithm is clearly designed to avoid false positives. And it's obviously much more complicated than your standard racial profiling algorithms ("If he's black, he's got crack in the back!"). Just look at the page rank algorithm. It can "predict" that a page will be relevant with minimal input from a human, and it's often very accurate.
So if this isn't predictive, what is? Would you rather they develop an algorithm that identifies blacklist-worthy addresses before they make their first attack?
The application of this algorithm actually seems pretty clever. It captures the fact that "true" attackers mostly attack "true" (that is, weak or high profile) targets, whereas those targets are mostly attacked by "true" attackers. Thus some isolated attack by a never-before-detected attacker on a never-before-attacked target has very little predictive potential in the eyes of the algorithm, whereas even just a few attacks by a never-before-seen attacker on several oft-attacked targets raises a huge red flag.
Somehow, I doubt identifying "troubling" sites is the limiting factor in Chinese internet censorship. More likely, the things holding back the censors are international pressure/attention, circumvention by their people, and the censors' own sense of decency, if that exists.
...or perhaps Greenpeace takes into account more than packaging? I mean really, you're declaring their whole environmental study invalid based on a few anecdotes about excessive use of cardboard?
[Disclaimer: In general, I don't trust Greenpeace numbers, but even then, the parent's argument is off.]
It stands for "Advanced Placement," which is typically the highest level of a course offered by a high school. High scores on AP tests (standardized tests given by College Board, the same group that does SAT testing) normally translate to credit for introductory level classes at most universities in the US.
My objection is philosophical in nature - courts are not to be 'legislating from the bench', inventing rights, etc... The problem with that sentiment is that many of the better decisions of the court (which you no doubt agree with) were cases where the court went out on a limb, setting precedents that they saw as a logic extension of the law, but which others might call "'legislating from the bench', inventing rights." Two off the top of my head: Miranda v. Arizona (Miranda rights), and Mapp v. Ohio (inadmissible evidence).
The jewel of Warhammer Online will be it's Realm Vs. Realm (RvR) combat. One of the main tenets of RvR combat, as Mythic implements it, is that all PvP actions contribute towards the war effort. Entire zones will change control as the result of events in RvR. Believe me, Mythic is very much trying to avoid the solo-MMO paradigm that was made popular by (parts of) WoW.
I see nothing in the above that we're not already doing here or have announced that we will be doing soon. You clearly didn't look very hard.
Correct me if I'm wrong Alright then...
They will be listened to on their phone calls, monitored by digital voice-recognition technologies. Sorry bud, we don't do that. There are a few wiretaps flying around, some illegal; but they comprise an absolutely tiny percentage of calls made, generally those made by Very Bad Men. We very definitely don't do this for all citizens. Want proof? Try calling yourself and talking about how you're going to overthrow the government and assassinate some officials. You'll be presently surprised as to how no one else will ever know about that phone call.
Their Internet access will be aggressively limited through the country's notorious system of online controls known as the "Great Firewall." Yeah, we don't do this, nor will we ever.
Their movements will be tracked through national ID cards with scannable computer chips and photos that are instantly uploaded to police databases and linked to their holder's personal data. National ID cards certainly come up every once in a while, but they get shot down consistently.
7 years ago, we didn't even have a centralized database for ENEMIES OF THE STATE. What makes you think we have one now for all citizens?
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And to think that if I had taken my dad's advice on majors, I'd have had Dr. Tour as my intro organic chemistry prof...
After all, he's blatantly participating in a cover-up of illegal activities in the Arkansas state government.
Either that, or it's just not the job of citizens to go around doing "investigations" into relatively minor breaches of state law.
Look at it this way. Is it more likely that these journalists are true sentinels of fairness and democracy and are about to uncover a massive and elaborate plot to illegally elect Huckabee in '08, or is it more likely that they need someone concrete to point the finger at for a tabloidesque story on an ultimately inconsequential Wikipedia edit.
You probably should have put "IANAL" somewhere in that post.
Of course, such a law is not enforceable except through the courts (that is, after the offense has occurred). My bet is that Google will be more than reasonable in their use of the kill-switch and no one will ever challenge the feature.
You're seriously putting forth a review based on briefly watching someone else play?
You also may have missed that it was intended mostly as a play on words.
...the nation-state in the Caucasus, not the Caucasian-pride-ridden state...
Get it? Caucasus, caucasian? Nothing?
whoever setup the hardware in these places needs to be held for criminal negligence
IANA(legal scholar), but this doesn't seem to fit the definition of criminal negligence for two reasons:
1) Doing a bad job at something and allowing others to come to harm isn't enough. Essentially, you must be aware of the risk of your actions (or inaction), or you must intentionally allow yourself too little information to make a proper decision.
2) I'm pretty sure that once you commit a negligent act, it has to be nature that takes something "the rest of the way." If your act simply allows someone else to commit a crime, then the crime falls the perpetrator, not you.
Keep in mind too, that I'm talking about criminal negligence. You can sue in civil courts on a much broader basis.
In fact, I find your entire comment rather ironic, since you imply that the recent crimes will be an excuse for some 1984-state to implement "MORE draconian measures," but then go on to suggest criminalizing what is essentially poor job performance.
Well, with either perchlorates or oxygen, you have an oxidizing agent. The part you're still missing though is the thing to be oxidized.
It's not like the only thing keeping fires in check here on earth is lack of oxygen. There's definitely enough oxygen in the atmosphere to burn things like forests. The real source of energy for a reaction like a forest fire is the chemicals that were at some point created by organisms through the absorption of sunlight.
On presumably lifeless Mars, there is no process by which enough energy coming in from the sun is stored. Therefore you simply cannot have a catastrophic release of energy.
The Usual Pattern:
1. OSS story pops up on Slashdot.
2. Someone posts: "Developing OSS is antithetical to making money!!"
3. Deluge of responses: "You're crazy. There're all kinds of ways to make money off OSS. It's the way of the future!"
And Now:
1. Slashdot posts a story about Microsoft showing sympathy towards OSS.
2. Deluge of posts: "This can't be! They must have evil secret motives."
I don't know what to think anymore.
From the video in the article, it seems that the laser was acquiring targets all on its own. It could have been clever editing, but the thing looked like it was working quite well.
I'm not all that surprised, either; it's been quite a while since laser defense was in the public's attention. Plenty of time for technology to advance.
Even accepting the stretch that "failure to know contents of a bill" = "dereliction of duty", it's quite obvious that "dereliction of duty" != "treason".
In fact, even if a congressperson is willfully corrupt, taking bribes and rigging elections, it's still not treason until they willingly act to overthrow the government. There's really no debating this definition (but just in case you try, please provide sources).
You seem like a civic-minded individual. Have you ever considered volunteering in an election? Please, I'd like to know.
Or this would just have the unintended consequence of making judges very reluctant to declare laws unconstitutional, because they don't want to send a legislature to jail.
Oh, so ignorance and stupidity excuse what amounts to treason now?
We all appreciate your enthusiasm, but ignorance of the exact contents of a bill is by no means treason, nor does it "amount" to treason. You know that.
And have you considered that there might be a reason the bill has this exception? Perhaps it's just not feasible to get machines that are both accessible and verifiable before 2009, so they chose to just go with accessible. Your immediate jump to corruption is rather silly and paranoid.
His idea for a 10 year Kennedy-esque-moon-mission-analog of rapidly transforming our energy base from one of fossil fuels to renewable energy is not only a great idea economically for the long term but also great for the short term.
If the Apollo missions had failed, it would have meant some lost money and lost pride. If this sort of plan fails, it could mean a serious depression. Furthermore, Apollo was a government project funded publicly. What you're suggesting goes well into the private sector. I don't know exactly how you plan to tell current energy suppliers that they should just change to renewable sources in ten years. Or are you suggesting that the government should become the main producer of energy?
Any time a country is in an economic slump, the best way to relieve it is by instituting widespread public works projects. Not only do they create short term wealth and job opportunities, but they have sustained maintenance work as well as the overall betterment of society through the finalization of said public work.
The economic model you're working from is called Keynesian Economics. I'm no economist, but I suspect you aren't either. Until a expert in the field comes along, I'll just let you know that it does work like you think. For instance, have you considered that jobs will be lost in the non-renewable energy job markets while they are created elsewhere?
A recent poll (I think it was from last Thursday) said that over 90% of Americans are FOR the rapid mobilization of wind and solar power. It seems everyone's on board for this.
Please provide a source. I highly doubt that the poll wasn't phrased differently or that it was from a reputable agency. If the poll is legit, then I have to conclude that the American public has given in to fear and hype.
Which leaves me to wonder, if neither Obama nor McCain seem to have any desire to embrace it, is it finally time for a viable third candidate, one who represents the publics opinion?
Perhaps you should look into the Green Party? Then you should look into why they consistently lose.
And out of respect to Mr. Gore, I hope you've misrepresented his plan.
And that's the point! This algorithm is clearly designed to avoid false positives. And it's obviously much more complicated than your standard racial profiling algorithms ("If he's black, he's got crack in the back!"). Just look at the page rank algorithm. It can "predict" that a page will be relevant with minimal input from a human, and it's often very accurate.
Logical - yes.
Predictive - no.
So if this isn't predictive, what is? Would you rather they develop an algorithm that identifies blacklist-worthy addresses before they make their first attack?
The application of this algorithm actually seems pretty clever. It captures the fact that "true" attackers mostly attack "true" (that is, weak or high profile) targets, whereas those targets are mostly attacked by "true" attackers. Thus some isolated attack by a never-before-detected attacker on a never-before-attacked target has very little predictive potential in the eyes of the algorithm, whereas even just a few attacks by a never-before-seen attacker on several oft-attacked targets raises a huge red flag.
Somehow, I doubt identifying "troubling" sites is the limiting factor in Chinese internet censorship. More likely, the things holding back the censors are international pressure/attention, circumvention by their people, and the censors' own sense of decency, if that exists.
...or perhaps Greenpeace takes into account more than packaging? I mean really, you're declaring their whole environmental study invalid based on a few anecdotes about excessive use of cardboard?
[Disclaimer: In general, I don't trust Greenpeace numbers, but even then, the parent's argument is off.]
It's a good thing they caught this in beta, before it affects a large number of people!
It stands for "Advanced Placement," which is typically the highest level of a course offered by a high school. High scores on AP tests (standardized tests given by College Board, the same group that does SAT testing) normally translate to credit for introductory level classes at most universities in the US.
The jewel of Warhammer Online will be it's Realm Vs. Realm (RvR) combat. One of the main tenets of RvR combat, as Mythic implements it, is that all PvP actions contribute towards the war effort. Entire zones will change control as the result of events in RvR. Believe me, Mythic is very much trying to avoid the solo-MMO paradigm that was made popular by (parts of) WoW.
7 years ago, we didn't even have a centralized database for ENEMIES OF THE STATE. What makes you think we have one now for all citizens?
You should have seen what Felix Klein was buried in.