"No, in real life, a recording of the situation will be edited to paint the cops in a bad light. Nobody gains much from releasing a tape of them doing things the right way. There are considerable advantages to selective editing. Like, edit out the abusive drunk throwing a punch or two at the cop, but leave in the cop shoving him up against the car and cuffing him. Sell that to the media, or to the drunk's lawyers who have conveniently filed a police abuse case..."
With all due respect, officer, this is 100% pure bullshit. I have never seen any citizen-made cop recordings released that had any cut-edits in them, ever. It is the cops who routinely lose and mangle the supposed mandatory recordings from squad cars, police HQ, etc. All the cop-on-tape stuff I've seen has been uploaded to YouTube as a public service, for free and at personal risk.
Example: The cops in Miami went around stomping a dozen people's cameras because the were worried they'd all take them home and make synchronized edits to make them look bad. Yeah, right. What you have here is simply evil propaganda trying to attack the one new tool that might provide transparency and oversight. With all due respect, sir.
A fundamentally broken metric: "percent of all technical support calls". A completely incorrect interpretation of that metric: "Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems".
If you want to argue that "Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems", then you need to know the number phones of each type that have hardware failures, and total phones of each type (or possibly total usage hours of each) -- and neither of those are known or estimated here. Other possible explanations for higher "percent of all technical support calls" could be perhaps that Android users are more knowledgeable about software and fix those problems on their own. But we can't know either way from this report:
"WDS did not disclose how many support calls in general technicians fielded for each platform. The study covered 600,000 support calls from June 2010 to May 2011 and covered Europe, North America, South Africa and Australia. Tim Deluca-Smith, the vice president of marketing for WDS, said that the overall percentages of support calls by platform were difficult to measure. The company refers to those as the 'propensity to call,' the percentage of devices that would display a problem in any given batch over a 12-month period."
Frankly, that smells goddamn fishy to me. You know the percentage of calls per-phone that are for hardware issues, but not the percentage of calls per phone? You've got a metric with an established name like "propensity to call" but claim no effective way to measure it? That doesn't make any sense.
"now we'll have to finding them on random webpages"
We're kind of there already. Hulu has evolved lately to shunt you off to other websites for many/most of its shows (so you land at cbs.com or comedycentral.com, etc., and wind up watching via different, lower-quality, proprietary players).
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Yes, that's actually the thesis of that (national award-winning) book. "[W]ithout IBM's machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler's camps could have never managed the numbers they did." (p. 352) Germany had plans for a long-delayed census of ethnicity, which was not feasible until IBM came to the rescue in 1933, which was followed soon afterward by laws barring Jews from citizenship or marrying Aryans. Early predictions of ~500K Jews in Germany were revised upwards, identifying 2M afterwards.
"This activity was not only countenanced by Thomas Watson and IBM in America, Black argues, but was actively encouraged and financially supported, with Watson himself traveling to Germany in October 1933 and the company ramping up its investment in its German subsidiary from 400,000 to 7,000,000 reichsmarks — about $1 million.[17] This injection of American capital allowed Dehomag to purchase land in Berlin and to construct IBM's first factory in Germany, Black charges, thereby "tooling up for what it correctly saw as a massive financial relationship with the Hitler regime."[17]" (from Wikipedia, etc.)
More generally, if we're going to gush about IBM's history, intellectual honesty demands that we include the well-known black marks, too.
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"Though thorium-based fuels produce far less long-lived transuranics than uranium-based fuels,[7] some long-lived actinide products constitute a long term radiological impact, especially 231 Pa.[8]"
^ a b Brissot R.; Heuer D.; Huffer E.; Le Brun, C.; Loiseaux, J-M; Nifenecker H.; Nuttin A. (July 2001). "Nuclear Energy With (Almost) No Radioactive Waste?". Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC). http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/gpr/english/NEWNRW/NEWNRW.html#foot284. "according to computer simulations done at ISN, this Protactinium dominates the residual toxicity of losses at 10,000 yr"
Just for argument's sale, let's imagine that standard police operating procedure is regularly corrupt and extra-judicial. Then this response would be the logical conclusion.
No, no, I want everything in news-teaser form, like:
- "Big changes for Java today! Did Java SE 7 pass muster? Click here!" - "What happens when scientists think they've captured the God particle? Click here!" - "Sarah Palin gets exposed in Alaska! What's the biggest surprise? Click here!"
"... but if you're looking at entering any non-tech field and think your college Linux experimentation and personal rebellion against Microsoft's evil empire will offer you any advantage in the business world, you're in for disappointment."
Um, did you not read between the lines and note that the guy you're replying to is likely faculty at the college in question?
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Eh, I've had a pretty good time with a Missile Command clone recently, driven by the mouse (which is, after all, just an upside-down trackball).
The other two, sure, I agree with those.
"No, in real life, a recording of the situation will be edited to paint the cops in a bad light. Nobody gains much from releasing a tape of them doing things the right way. There are considerable advantages to selective editing. Like, edit out the abusive drunk throwing a punch or two at the cop, but leave in the cop shoving him up against the car and cuffing him. Sell that to the media, or to the drunk's lawyers who have conveniently filed a police abuse case..."
With all due respect, officer, this is 100% pure bullshit. I have never seen any citizen-made cop recordings released that had any cut-edits in them, ever. It is the cops who routinely lose and mangle the supposed mandatory recordings from squad cars, police HQ, etc. All the cop-on-tape stuff I've seen has been uploaded to YouTube as a public service, for free and at personal risk.
Example: The cops in Miami went around stomping a dozen people's cameras because the were worried they'd all take them home and make synchronized edits to make them look bad. Yeah, right. What you have here is simply evil propaganda trying to attack the one new tool that might provide transparency and oversight. With all due respect, sir.
Qik
"And of course, shouldn't the cops want to be recorded if they're not doing anything wrong?"
If A, then B.
Not B.
Therefore not A.
A fundamentally broken metric: "percent of all technical support calls".
A completely incorrect interpretation of that metric: "Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems".
If you want to argue that "Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems", then you need to know the number phones of each type that have hardware failures, and total phones of each type (or possibly total usage hours of each) -- and neither of those are known or estimated here. Other possible explanations for higher "percent of all technical support calls" could be perhaps that Android users are more knowledgeable about software and fix those problems on their own. But we can't know either way from this report:
"WDS did not disclose how many support calls in general technicians fielded for each platform. The study covered 600,000 support calls from June 2010 to May 2011 and covered Europe, North America, South Africa and Australia. Tim Deluca-Smith, the vice president of marketing for WDS, said that the overall percentages of support calls by platform were difficult to measure. The company refers to those as the 'propensity to call,' the percentage of devices that would display a problem in any given batch over a 12-month period."
Frankly, that smells goddamn fishy to me. You know the percentage of calls per-phone that are for hardware issues, but not the percentage of calls per phone? You've got a metric with an established name like "propensity to call" but claim no effective way to measure it? That doesn't make any sense.
"now we'll have to finding them on random webpages"
We're kind of there already. Hulu has evolved lately to shunt you off to other websites for many/most of its shows (so you land at cbs.com or comedycentral.com, etc., and wind up watching via different, lower-quality, proprietary players).
"keeping people from entering the country" != "throwing people out of the country"
e.g., the Jose Vargas story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html?_r=2&hp
"For the record, pulling someone over because based on looks is strictly forbidden in the law."
Tell me: What is the penalty for violating that? And can you give a case where it has been applied?
Mussolini DID say that.
"Did not say that" != "Did not originally say that"
You need an organized protest/boycott. A little dribble of people complaining one at a time won't accomplish anything.
Easily written off as nutjobs (assuming the tier-1 support taking the call even thinks about it that long).
He already said he wants to pay trillions. He preemptively out-crazied you by more than 6 orders of magnitude.
Reading: zero.
This is the result of the "invisible hand" in regards to projects so overwhelmingly expensive that they're too big to fail for the stakeholders.
That's what I was going to say. Beat to the registration, dammit.
*flind
Fucking. Insane.
Yes, that's actually the thesis of that (national award-winning) book. "[W]ithout IBM's machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler's camps could have never managed the numbers they did." (p. 352) Germany had plans for a long-delayed census of ethnicity, which was not feasible until IBM came to the rescue in 1933, which was followed soon afterward by laws barring Jews from citizenship or marrying Aryans. Early predictions of ~500K Jews in Germany were revised upwards, identifying 2M afterwards.
"This activity was not only countenanced by Thomas Watson and IBM in America, Black argues, but was actively encouraged and financially supported, with Watson himself traveling to Germany in October 1933 and the company ramping up its investment in its German subsidiary from 400,000 to 7,000,000 reichsmarks — about $1 million.[17] This injection of American capital allowed Dehomag to purchase land in Berlin and to construct IBM's first factory in Germany, Black charges, thereby "tooling up for what it correctly saw as a massive financial relationship with the Hitler regime."[17]" (from Wikipedia, etc.)
More generally, if we're going to gush about IBM's history, intellectual honesty demands that we include the well-known black marks, too.
*knell
"Cleanup pays for itself if you use a thorium reactor to burn the waste for useful fuel."
From Wikipedia:
"Though thorium-based fuels produce far less long-lived transuranics than uranium-based fuels,[7] some long-lived actinide products constitute a long term radiological impact, especially 231 Pa.[8]"
^ a b Brissot R.; Heuer D.; Huffer E.; Le Brun, C.; Loiseaux, J-M; Nifenecker H.; Nuttin A. (July 2001). "Nuclear Energy With (Almost) No Radioactive Waste?". Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC). http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/gpr/english/NEWNRW/NEWNRW.html#foot284. "according to computer simulations done at ISN, this Protactinium dominates the residual toxicity of losses at 10,000 yr"
... That, plus the completely unknowable cost of long-term waste storage (since to date, it's never been accomplished anywhere in the world).
Possibly you mean "you don't have to register the trademark".
Perfect response. +1
Good overview of several similar cases coming up in Illinois, and their national implications:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/chicago-district-attorney-recording-bad-cops_n_872921.html
Just for argument's sale, let's imagine that standard police operating procedure is regularly corrupt and extra-judicial. Then this response would be the logical conclusion.
No, no, I want everything in news-teaser form, like:
- "Big changes for Java today! Did Java SE 7 pass muster? Click here!"
- "What happens when scientists think they've captured the God particle? Click here!"
- "Sarah Palin gets exposed in Alaska! What's the biggest surprise? Click here!"
"... but if you're looking at entering any non-tech field and think your college Linux experimentation and personal rebellion against Microsoft's evil empire will offer you any advantage in the business world, you're in for disappointment."
Um, did you not read between the lines and note that the guy you're replying to is likely faculty at the college in question?