The character was trying to sell LSD, over slashdot, based on a single emoticon: there would have been multiple mistakes this ficticious character made before getting to the point of assuming cops couldn't lie about being a cop.
Are you a cop? You have to tell me if you're a cop. Anyway, your emoticon clearly indicates you want some LSD. I know a guy. Let me know. Again, are you a cop? You have to tell me if you're a cop. You're a cop aren't you?
My japanese geography is mostly wikipedia, but I think the Kanto region wasn't hit too badly. The Fukushima region where the damaged plants are is to the north. Sendai is north of that (it's at least not in the Kanto region from my reading of those maps).
It seems like as far as the earthquake goes, the Kanto region was just fine. The nuclear plant is the concern in the kanto region now and neither you nor the japanese slashdotter could have forseen that.
On the one hand we teach kids about the Constitution and Bill of Rights. On the other hand, we tell them "Hey johhny - what you say can get you in trouble if you make fun of that fat kid in the playground...
To be fair, they'll face the same thing when they get jobs and try to use facebook there.
And finally, doesn't the Dept of Ed have ANYTHING else to deal with besides this BS?
Maybe not with their budget? Saying "crack down on hate speech on facebook" probably doesn't cost as much as buying new textbooks.
Whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?" Have we become such a bunch of pussies that we can't even deal with having people call us bad names? What ever happened to "hey - here's two pairs of boxing gloves - go behind the gym and work it out?"
Joking aside, I hear what you're saying, but TFA points out the suicide rate among gay and lesbian students is 4 times that of straight students. I'm not saying that justifies trampling on free speech off school grounds, but saying "work it out" is a little simplistic.
The beauty of it being open source is that if someone feels strongly about this feature (like you), they can make the change themselves and offer the project a patch, or fork it.
Unless of course you aren't a developer and/or just want to use software, in that case you're boned.
Well, yeah. I'd say that in most cases if someone is providing you with software and the rights to adapt it to your own needs, the burden is and should be on you to adapt it to your own needs rather than them.
While researchers have been able to use monoclonal antibodies to tag internal bits of cells, you either got fairly poor spatial resolution of living cells because you were imaging the entire cell depth or you got excellent spatial resolution of dead, fixed cells with the obvious issues of stopping a dynamic process.
Antibodies are usually used with fixed (dead) cells. Fluorescent proteins like GFP can be used to visualize live cells just fine. Get a cell to express GFP (pretty easy to do) and you can watch them with any fluorescent microscope at high resolution. You can even fuse the GFP to other proteins to visualize specific structures within the cell. Here is an example: the red is marking microtubules, the green is marking chromatin during mitosis. Extremely high resolution.
As far as spatial resolution, I think they're talking about -depth-. X and Y spatial resolution is fairly good, and with some of the super resolution microscopy techniques, they're better than we thought they could be. Z resolution with confocals or 2 photon is comparatively poor. The image I saw on the "Bessel+beam+plane+illumination+microscopy" it appeared that depth resolution was just as good as X and Y planes. That is an improvement, but there is quite a bit you can tell from 2d images, and the 3d capabilities aren't so bad these days.
We've had 3d microscopes for a while now, and no evidence so far.
You must not think very highly of your "Intelligent Designer" if you think it went to so much effort to hide it's existence, but then slipped up and put proof of itself in an infinite number of cells.
Ability to blind populations on the ground in peacetime. This laser would have to be powerful. Satellites are irregularly-shaped and have flat reflective surfaces. See where I'm going with this?
Are you suggesting that governments will blind, say, protesters or peaceful people they don't like who happen to be staring at the lasers or at sattelites, which will reflect the beams into their eyes? Wow, that WOULD be a nightmare scenario, those evil bastards! So much wasted tax money! They should really stick to the low-tech grabbing them, putting them in a van, and burying them in an unmarked grave. It's SO much more efficient.
It's the lawsuits, and subsequent draining of money, or overturning of laws that is the teeth behind the constitution. And it only works so long as the evildoers respect the rule of law, which people who kidnap kids don't.
A large portion of children are kidnapped by family members who will not otherwise harm the child. Now when they register for school, people will be notified, or get medicine and so on.
What "large portion of children" are we talking about? I'm going to say if it's under 10% of children abducted, invading the other 90%'s privacy is too high a price. And whatever the numbers, mandatory rather than opt-in is unjustified.
"he alleged purpose of the new ID card is to hinder the abduction of children and prevent child exploitation. "
That IS it's purpose and it will help.
No, it's purpose is security theater: to make the citizens think their government is taking serious steps to combat the security problem.
How are ID cards supposed to stop children abduction or exploitation? "Crap! We can't kidnap and exploit this kid: his irises are catalogued! The police will know he's not ours! Now that kid standing NEXT to him is clearly an orphan and will be untagged. Tie him up and put him in the sweatshop, then any police who notice will think he's OUR kid, along with the other 20."
Or is it more "Stay back evildoers! I have AN ID CARD!!!"
Evildoers: "Oh no! He'll give us papercuts!"
Or is it that most of the people using/kidnapping kids are confused and think they're unclaimed children that are finders keepers?
It's a thoroughly nonsensical idea that will do nothing to stop any real problem, hence the sarcasm in the post.
But you admit it was messed up local politics, if not in the building of it, in the using it as a smear campaign. And, lets be honest, that's how most people know it.
I did indeed successfully forget O'Donnell, and the country has successfully forgotten that there's that there's still a war with casualties. But I apologize. For those two things. Not for Biden though: he's not so much "Delaware politics" as he is "National political distraction."
Take out polygamists and that describes most states.
Alaska: Palin, bridge to nowhere, and the internet described as a bunch of tubes. And it's ass-cold.
Arizona: bass-ackwards, racist politics
California I guess you have a little more, like mudslides, fires, and crime, but most news seems to be "Out of money" or "Pot smokers vote against legalizing pot."
Delaware:... I can't recall any national news from Delaware.
Florida: just refused an assload of money. I guess they have more money than they can use? They have retirees rather than polygamists
Wisconsin: Cheese and billionaires busting up unions.
I do have to ask why you don't just get a wifi only device and a dumbphone if you need a phone and are around wifi all day. A dumbphone and an ipod touch worked for me for quite some time.
Sadly, How many people ACTUALLY use their phones to make calls today ? Most people I see use them for playing games and sending out text messages and that's about it.
"Sadly?" What's sad about it? Some us who always hated talking on the phone and would be happy if phones became obsolete (although they won't of course). I also hated faxes, you're not sad about them are you?
Anyway, if the increasingly inaccurate "phone" designation really annoys you, just pretend they're mutated calculators.
in the same way that cheap reality TV is detracting from more expensive but higher quality shows.
But I think reality TV is only detracting from quality shows because air time is the limiting resource. I've heard of good shows getting pushed out of their time slot by crappy reality TV, sure, but games don't have time slots. They might not suffer the same fate. Movies might be a better comparison. Hollywood makes big-budget films in addition to cheap movies since the two aren't competing for showtimes, at least not quite as directly as reality TV shows compete with real TV shows.
Even if Northside had his facts straight, he should have gone to the police, not to the public.
If you're accusing someone of a crime like mortgage fraud, and it's true (as it was in this case) then I'd say no, people who aren't in law enforcement have no moral obligation to go to the police first. I don't know about legally, but morally, no, if you know someone is guilty, fuck them. Broadcast it however you like, before or after alerting the police. If you're not sure, then yeah, alert the police first maybe.
In this case, the guy was fired the day after it was published. Had the police started an investigation, would they have been able to just tell his employers before he was proven guilty in a court that he was guilty?
Apple were not the first into either of those markets, so I don't know why you'd say "follow Apple".
You don't? It's because they're doing it so successfully. Kind of like how kids wanted to be like Michael Jordan instead of being like whoever the first guy to play basketball was (meanwhile we future slashdotters were taking apart computers).
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Face it: you couldn't build a wall out of lego.
That would explain why my lego castle roof kept falling down.
The character was trying to sell LSD, over slashdot, based on a single emoticon: there would have been multiple mistakes this ficticious character made before getting to the point of assuming cops couldn't lie about being a cop.
I'd answer you, but I have Tourettes and suspect you might be under 18.
I'm guessing (*)(*)
Maybe if he's into zombies or necrophilia: F(X_x)F
Are you a cop? You have to tell me if you're a cop. Anyway, your emoticon clearly indicates you want some LSD. I know a guy. Let me know. Again, are you a cop? You have to tell me if you're a cop. You're a cop aren't you?
My japanese geography is mostly wikipedia, but I think the Kanto region wasn't hit too badly. The Fukushima region where the damaged plants are is to the north. Sendai is north of that (it's at least not in the Kanto region from my reading of those maps).
It seems like as far as the earthquake goes, the Kanto region was just fine. The nuclear plant is the concern in the kanto region now and neither you nor the japanese slashdotter could have forseen that.
So... I guess you're both justified?
On the one hand we teach kids about the Constitution and Bill of Rights. On the other hand, we tell them "Hey johhny - what you say can get you in trouble if you make fun of that fat kid in the playground...
To be fair, they'll face the same thing when they get jobs and try to use facebook there.
And finally, doesn't the Dept of Ed have ANYTHING else to deal with besides this BS?
Maybe not with their budget? Saying "crack down on hate speech on facebook" probably doesn't cost as much as buying new textbooks.
Whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?" Have we become such a bunch of pussies that we can't even deal with having people call us bad names? What ever happened to "hey - here's two pairs of boxing gloves - go behind the gym and work it out?"
Joking aside, I hear what you're saying, but TFA points out the suicide rate among gay and lesbian students is 4 times that of straight students. I'm not saying that justifies trampling on free speech off school grounds, but saying "work it out" is a little simplistic.
The beauty of it being open source is that if someone feels strongly about this feature (like you), they can make the change themselves and offer the project a patch, or fork it.
Unless of course you aren't a developer and/or just want to use software, in that case you're boned.
Well, yeah. I'd say that in most cases if someone is providing you with software and the rights to adapt it to your own needs, the burden is and should be on you to adapt it to your own needs rather than them.
This is also problem with so many open source projects. They all forget about disabilities and blind people.
If it's open source, why couldn't people with said disabilities adapt it to their own unique needs?
While researchers have been able to use monoclonal antibodies to tag internal bits of cells, you either got fairly poor spatial resolution of living cells because you were imaging the entire cell depth or you got excellent spatial resolution of dead, fixed cells with the obvious issues of stopping a dynamic process.
Antibodies are usually used with fixed (dead) cells. Fluorescent proteins like GFP can be used to visualize live cells just fine. Get a cell to express GFP (pretty easy to do) and you can watch them with any fluorescent microscope at high resolution. You can even fuse the GFP to other proteins to visualize specific structures within the cell. Here is an example: the red is marking microtubules, the green is marking chromatin during mitosis. Extremely high resolution.
As far as spatial resolution, I think they're talking about -depth-. X and Y spatial resolution is fairly good, and with some of the super resolution microscopy techniques, they're better than we thought they could be. Z resolution with confocals or 2 photon is comparatively poor. The image I saw on the "Bessel+beam+plane+illumination+microscopy" it appeared that depth resolution was just as good as X and Y planes. That is an improvement, but there is quite a bit you can tell from 2d images, and the 3d capabilities aren't so bad these days.
We've had 3d microscopes for a while now, and no evidence so far.
You must not think very highly of your "Intelligent Designer" if you think it went to so much effort to hide it's existence, but then slipped up and put proof of itself in an infinite number of cells.
Ability to blind populations on the ground in peacetime. This laser would have to be powerful. Satellites are irregularly-shaped and have flat reflective surfaces. See where I'm going with this?
Are you suggesting that governments will blind, say, protesters or peaceful people they don't like who happen to be staring at the lasers or at sattelites, which will reflect the beams into their eyes? Wow, that WOULD be a nightmare scenario, those evil bastards! So much wasted tax money! They should really stick to the low-tech grabbing them, putting them in a van, and burying them in an unmarked grave. It's SO much more efficient.
It's the lawsuits, and subsequent draining of money, or overturning of laws that is the teeth behind the constitution. And it only works so long as the evildoers respect the rule of law, which people who kidnap kids don't.
A large portion of children are kidnapped by family members who will not otherwise harm the child. Now when they register for school, people will be notified, or get medicine and so on.
What "large portion of children" are we talking about? I'm going to say if it's under 10% of children abducted, invading the other 90%'s privacy is too high a price. And whatever the numbers, mandatory rather than opt-in is unjustified.
"he alleged purpose of the new ID card is to hinder the abduction of children and prevent child exploitation. "
That IS it's purpose and it will help.
No, it's purpose is security theater: to make the citizens think their government is taking serious steps to combat the security problem.
How are ID cards supposed to stop children abduction or exploitation? "Crap! We can't kidnap and exploit this kid: his irises are catalogued! The police will know he's not ours! Now that kid standing NEXT to him is clearly an orphan and will be untagged. Tie him up and put him in the sweatshop, then any police who notice will think he's OUR kid, along with the other 20."
Or is it more "Stay back evildoers! I have AN ID CARD!!!"
Evildoers: "Oh no! He'll give us papercuts!"
Or is it that most of the people using/kidnapping kids are confused and think they're unclaimed children that are finders keepers?
It's a thoroughly nonsensical idea that will do nothing to stop any real problem, hence the sarcasm in the post.
But you admit it was messed up local politics, if not in the building of it, in the using it as a smear campaign. And, lets be honest, that's how most people know it.
I did indeed successfully forget O'Donnell, and the country has successfully forgotten that there's that there's still a war with casualties. But I apologize. For those two things. Not for Biden though: he's not so much "Delaware politics" as he is "National political distraction."
Take out polygamists and that describes most states.
... I can't recall any national news from Delaware.
Alaska: Palin, bridge to nowhere, and the internet described as a bunch of tubes. And it's ass-cold.
Arizona: bass-ackwards, racist politics
California I guess you have a little more, like mudslides, fires, and crime, but most news seems to be "Out of money" or "Pot smokers vote against legalizing pot."
Delaware:
Florida: just refused an assload of money. I guess they have more money than they can use? They have retirees rather than polygamists
Wisconsin: Cheese and billionaires busting up unions.
Hawaii is the one exception I can think of.
It is BS, yes, and should be enforced.
I do have to ask why you don't just get a wifi only device and a dumbphone if you need a phone and are around wifi all day. A dumbphone and an ipod touch worked for me for quite some time.
Someone said no exploits for Mac and Linux, huh?
I've also heard rumors that zero Windows ME users are getting infected. Just sayin...
most web apps are free and 30% of zero is zero.
You must be new here. The correct way of saying that would be "Apple takes 100% of the royalties of most apps!"
Write that up, post it on a blog somewhere, and submit it, quick!
Sadly, How many people ACTUALLY use their phones to make calls today ? Most people I see use them for playing games and sending out text messages and that's about it.
"Sadly?" What's sad about it? Some us who always hated talking on the phone and would be happy if phones became obsolete (although they won't of course). I also hated faxes, you're not sad about them are you?
Anyway, if the increasingly inaccurate "phone" designation really annoys you, just pretend they're mutated calculators.
in the same way that cheap reality TV is detracting from more expensive but higher quality shows.
But I think reality TV is only detracting from quality shows because air time is the limiting resource. I've heard of good shows getting pushed out of their time slot by crappy reality TV, sure, but games don't have time slots. They might not suffer the same fate. Movies might be a better comparison. Hollywood makes big-budget films in addition to cheap movies since the two aren't competing for showtimes, at least not quite as directly as reality TV shows compete with real TV shows.
Even if Northside had his facts straight, he should have gone to the police, not to the public.
If you're accusing someone of a crime like mortgage fraud, and it's true (as it was in this case) then I'd say no, people who aren't in law enforcement have no moral obligation to go to the police first. I don't know about legally, but morally, no, if you know someone is guilty, fuck them. Broadcast it however you like, before or after alerting the police. If you're not sure, then yeah, alert the police first maybe.
In this case, the guy was fired the day after it was published. Had the police started an investigation, would they have been able to just tell his employers before he was proven guilty in a court that he was guilty?
Apple were not the first into either of those markets, so I don't know why you'd say "follow Apple".
You don't? It's because they're doing it so successfully. Kind of like how kids wanted to be like Michael Jordan instead of being like whoever the first guy to play basketball was (meanwhile we future slashdotters were taking apart computers).