The solution is to bring the relevant laws into the 21st century, then judges will have the tools that they need to deal with people who do this sort of thing. Given the attention that this case is getting I suspect that the laws will be modernized very soon.
In the US if you are in a public place then you can be photographed (or videoed) without your consent and the photographer can do almost anything that he or she wants with the photographs. One of the few exceptions is if the photographers are using the pictures for commercial purposes, but even that is somewhat fuzzy. Perhaps the victims could claim that the photographers deliberately caused them emotional anguish, then they may be able to pursue a civil suit. Not a lawyer. Do not play one on tv. Consult real legal counsel.
The judges simple pointed out that under current law taking these pictures is legal. That is their job. What is needed is for the appropriate laws to be rewritten.
This is an incredibly stupid thing to do to someone who is recording what you are doing and uploading the recording to the great and mighty cloud in real time.
No, its not. We have a reasonably good idea of the about of "visible" matter in the Galaxy because it is visible. Stars shine, and we can detect them right down to the hydrogen burning limit. Dust and gas clouds radiate at various wavelengths, and we can measure that too. We have a reasonably good idea of the amount of baryonic matter in the Galaxy. Even with generous uncertainties there is not enough to account for the Galactic rotation curve.
This is selective self-reporting. People only post when they have had a problem. People do not usually announce to the world that they had no problems with the police today. Still, Web sites like this do serve an important purpose. The right to record what happens in public places has to extend to everyone at all times, or to no-one every. Anything else invites abuse.
> Law enforcement and Government in general doesn't like when random citizens record things. > It makes it harder to railroad people in courts afterwards if there is actual footage of an incident.
Rubbish. Western governments generally do not care if people record things. If they did they would have banned the use of camcorders in public placed decades ago when it would have been easy to do so. In fact, most jurisdictions in Canada and the US (not sure about Europe) have laws explicitly protecting a person's right to record what they see when they are in a public place. As for law enforcement, they only care if you catch them doing something illegal.
Yes, punch someone who is wearing a camera that is equipped with facial recognition software and an always-on connection to cloud storage. That gene will weed itself out of the idiot population very quickly.
Nope. The first anonymous coward is correct. Orbits do not suddenly change on their own. That would violate various conservation laws. The fact that an asteroid-mass object appears to have hit a pulsar means that something perturbed that astroid's orbit. This was probably an encounter with another asteroid.
When Uranus was discovered the common pronunciation for the old Greek sky god's name was something akin to urine-us, which at the time was considered far more vulgar than the ur-anus pronunciation. Today it is the other way around. Who knows which pronunciation will be considered ruder (or more childish) a few centuries from now.
A significant problem is that many of the people who quote p values do it without understanding what a p value actually means. Getting p = 0.05 does not mean that there is only a 5% chance that the model is wrong. That is one of the fundamental misunderstandings in statistics, and I suspect that it is behind a lot of the cases of scientific irreproducibility.
>These studies do aggree, however, that retailers prefer DST because it brings in more customers, traffic safety is improved because of more light for evening commutes
The improvement in evening traffic safety is offset by a corresponding decrease in morning traffic safety. Most of the safety studies that I have seen suggest that morning commutes are inherently more dangerous than evening commutes, probably because people are not fully awake. If this is the case, and safety is the primary reason for DST, then it would be better to have the daylight before work than after.
For this proposal to work the two time zones will probably need to be EST and MST, and put the boundary approximately between Iowa and Illinois. This will minimize the discrepancies between clock time and Solar time.
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The solution is to bring the relevant laws into the 21st century, then judges will have the tools that they need to deal with people who do this sort of thing. Given the attention that this case is getting I suspect that the laws will be modernized very soon.
In the US if you are in a public place then you can be photographed (or videoed) without your consent and the photographer can do almost anything that he or she wants with the photographs. One of the few exceptions is if the photographers are using the pictures for commercial purposes, but even that is somewhat fuzzy. Perhaps the victims could claim that the photographers deliberately caused them emotional anguish, then they may be able to pursue a civil suit. Not a lawyer. Do not play one on tv. Consult real legal counsel.
The judges simple pointed out that under current law taking these pictures is legal. That is their job. What is needed is for the appropriate laws to be rewritten.
Whatever. It sounds like you have found an easy way to make a few dollars.
Dude. If you are being paid to post this sort of rubbish please contact me. I want in.
Ooh... Aren't you the clever one.
This is an incredibly stupid thing to do to someone who is recording what you are doing and uploading the recording to the great and mighty cloud in real time.
Do not try this in a stand your ground state.
That's right! Blame the victim.
Zombies of the Stratosphere.
No, its not. We have a reasonably good idea of the about of "visible" matter in the Galaxy because it is visible. Stars shine, and we can detect them right down to the hydrogen burning limit. Dust and gas clouds radiate at various wavelengths, and we can measure that too. We have a reasonably good idea of the amount of baryonic matter in the Galaxy. Even with generous uncertainties there is not enough to account for the Galactic rotation curve.
This is selective self-reporting. People only post when they have had a problem. People do not usually announce to the world that they had no problems with the police today. Still, Web sites like this do serve an important purpose. The right to record what happens in public places has to extend to everyone at all times, or to no-one every. Anything else invites abuse.
> Law enforcement and Government in general doesn't like when random citizens record things.
> It makes it harder to railroad people in courts afterwards if there is actual footage of an incident.
Rubbish. Western governments generally do not care if people record things. If they did they would have banned the use of camcorders in public placed decades ago when it would have been easy to do so. In fact, most jurisdictions in Canada and the US (not sure about Europe) have laws explicitly protecting a person's right to record what they see when they are in a public place. As for law enforcement, they only care if you catch them doing something illegal.
The security person tried to return the package before he realized that it was a pipe bomb.
O brave new world, That has such Google in't!
> I want to know which OS would be considered to be buddhism?
If a kernel panics in the os, would any system crash?
Preventing Glass thefts is simple--brick the device, the same way that bricking mobiles removes much of the incentive to steal them.
Yes, punch someone who is wearing a camera that is equipped with facial recognition software and an always-on connection to cloud storage. That gene will weed itself out of the idiot population very quickly.
Nope. The first anonymous coward is correct. Orbits do not suddenly change on their own. That would violate various conservation laws. The fact that an asteroid-mass object appears to have hit a pulsar means that something perturbed that astroid's orbit. This was probably an encounter with another asteroid.
When Uranus was discovered the common pronunciation for the old Greek sky god's name was something akin to urine-us, which at the time was considered far more vulgar than the ur-anus pronunciation. Today it is the other way around. Who knows which pronunciation will be considered ruder (or more childish) a few centuries from now.
A significant problem is that many of the people who quote p values do it without understanding what a p value actually means. Getting p = 0.05 does not mean that there is only a 5% chance that the model is wrong. That is one of the fundamental misunderstandings in statistics, and I suspect that it is behind a lot of the cases of scientific irreproducibility.
I hope that it did not suffer too much.
>These studies do aggree, however, that retailers prefer DST because it brings in more customers, traffic safety is improved because of more light for evening commutes
The improvement in evening traffic safety is offset by a corresponding decrease in morning traffic safety. Most of the safety studies that I have seen suggest that morning commutes are inherently more dangerous than evening commutes, probably because people are not fully awake. If this is the case, and safety is the primary reason for DST, then it would be better to have the daylight before work than after.
For this proposal to work the two time zones will probably need to be EST and MST, and put the boundary approximately between Iowa and Illinois. This will minimize the discrepancies between clock time and Solar time.
Daylight Saving Time results in fewer hours of light in the morning, not more. DST puts less of the morning trip to school in light, not more.