It's not diminishing returns for TSA though. Every time a terrorist plot is uncovered they need to do -something- to make it look like they're doing something real. The reality is that if someone is determined enough and not a goddamn idiot, they are going to be able to bring down a plane. Fortunately, the terrorists are idiots for now, but if most people realized how ineffective TSA was, we'd cut their funding dramatically and fire most of them.
Security theater actually works quite well for the actors and a gullible audience, though it does very little towards actually security.
Okay, so you can fool people into thinking those buttons do something. Is there a point to it though? Elevators in this building, the doors stay open for 30 seconds, that's 5 seconds of the door being open when I need it to be open and 25 seconds of "why isn't it closing?" Some engineer things that's an ideal amount of time in any situation despite what the passengers might think?
Me too, but I don't think we're going to get anywhere on that without voters really being outraged about it. Seems like everyone outside of slashdot regards them as no different from the metal detectors.
One time when flying with a friend, they had the backscatter machine. I decided to take a stand for privacy and said I didn't want to be scanned and submitted to a patdown. Everyone looked at me strange, and my friend loudly commented "Dude, you must have an embarrassingly small penis." Which was just plain mean and hurtful and totally not true at all (my gun collection is for defense, not compensation). But anyway, I don't think most people care about this. Naturally we're not going to get a politician shutting it down if no one cares abougt it
Not only is it EASY to get harsh, but when companies flatly lie to customers, the price *should* be many times the amount of profit they made using the lie. Brushing it off as "only a marketing catch-phrase" is ignorant at best.
I agree. It's bad enough when large corporations capture the agencies supposed to be regulating them. Why are we giving them the benefit of the doubt? What the fuck for? WHat have they ever done for anything other than their shareholders? They can't even live up to the extremely low standards the industry has set for itself, and we're supposed to feel sorry for them? I'll say we're being to harsh on these companies if and when we consider hanging the executives for rounding up to the nearest minute. Reserving judgement for using sleazy marketing terms? No, judge away. I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they're not trying to stagnate the whole mobile industry so they never have to upgrade their equipment again, but they are definitely lying through their teeth.
and you can steal her away from that Jock asshole..... (a side note, you may consider renewing your health/life insurance as well before you do this)
For those of us who have entered the age where our more jockly peers are becoming less jockey and more pudgy, that second part still actually holds true.
Are we really linking to stories at the left-wing Huffington Post? I can't imagine people being okay with Brietbart editorials being linked here.
Are you really trying to equate the Huffington Post to Andrew Breitbart? That's a bit like me saying George Will is about as respectable as Michael Moore, or me saying Rush Limbaugh is as high as Lindsay Lohan.
My initial thought is that they're recording peoples' responses to product placement / subliminal advertising, in an attempt to gauge the effectiveness thereof.
I thought it was to catch people using hand cameras to record the movie and upload it. After all, they seem so convinced that the reason people aren't spending $30 to go out to the latest crappy movie is because they can download a shaky, poorly contrasted, terrible audio, low resolution version of it for free.
As far as I understand, what this tool does is it sniffs the data in unencrypted WiFi sessions, determines when people are logging in (using a password) to a website that does not employ encryption, and allows the user to hijack their session.
Wait, people weren't doing that before? I wasted all this time NOT logging into my bank account on my nintendo DS in an airport?!?!
Kidding about that last part, but were people doing this before and this is just a prepackaged easy way for everyone to do it?
And even if it weren't WHY THE FUCK IS POLLING ALL THEY TALK ABOUT? Paying attention to the news will tell you 1. Who is running 2. How likely they are to get elected 3. If they are having sex with someone who isn't their spouse 4. What their opponents are saying about them, in order of most to least information.
Not on there: their history or what they will actually do (if anything) when elected. Who do I vote for, the guy who's likely to win? Because that's about the only thing you'll get from the news.
How a candidate is polling is of interest to the candidate and his staff, and to people who already know who they are voting for to either say "Ha ha, we're going to win!" or "Damnit, we're going to lose!" To everyone else, it should be trivial information.
The cytokine storm that causes fatalities with some influenza variants is due (roughly speaking) to the body breaking down the virus too quickly, swamping its ability to dispose of the byproducts
On the other hand, there are of course viruses where this is not the case. HIV, or herpes for example. I'm guessing ebola as well. Furthermore, the byproducts produced sound like that's a more general problem that could be solved seperately: you could take this drug to kill all the viruses, and then another drug to help you deal with the debris potentially (though I have no idea if such a drug is out there).
I've got something that's even -more- interesting than Rush Limbaugh's opinion: my cat just farted, and it sounded like "The wording of the bill is also terrible, 'appeals to a deviant or morbid interest' and has no 'serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value' can be interpreted as every single videogame or alternatively no videogames whatsoever."
I mean, not only is my cat's asshole just as credible as Rush Limbaugh's mouth, but it also has better analysis as to why the law is a bad idea.
$100 billion for space-based research or $100 billion for Welfare and War. Not really a touch decision.
Which type of welfare? Corporate welfare? Welfare spent on people who are abusing the system? Or just all welfare?
While it's easy to find plenty of examples of where welfare was wasteful, there's plenty of good that comes out of it. Meanwhile, as the summary mentions, it's hard to find tangible benefits of the ISS. Welfare or the ISS may not be a tough decision if you think that all welfare is wasted money*, but it would be a tough decision for some of us.
TFA mentions that there are already patrols near the border trying triangulate the mobile phones transmitting the images into China: I think the secret is out on -how- they do it.
I sure hope there is no one ACTUALLY named Kim Dong-cheol then.
North Korean secret police: Are you Kim Dong-cheol? KDC: Yes sir, but not the one who is in this article! Police: Better safe than sorry, you get 12 years hard labor. KDC: I'm not a driver for any corporation! I don't have any cameras! Police: Well then 20 years for embarrassing dear leader!
Me thinks that someone is trying to convince schools that these are not just the same old desks with wheels on the bottom.
If you've spent any time in a schoolroom in the last 15 years, you're familiar with the high pitched whine of metal scraping against linoleum, as students rearrange their chairs and desks to whatever activity is going on. It seems like a minor annoyance, but it's a serious design problem: School furniture was largely designed 50 years ago for static, face-forward teaching. It isn't suited to the myriad forms of teaching that take place in the modern classroom.
OH GOD, THE HIGH PITCHED WHINE that echos forever preventing any learning from happening! If only that antiquated furniture was designed for the myriad of desk configurations needed in today's fast-paced modern classroom.
In my day when we had to move desks around, we just slid them. On the snow, uphill at all times. There was at most a minute of squeeking and then the desk distraction was largely dispensed with.
Swivel chairs, on the other hand, seem like some of the ADHD students would be spinning around every few minutes, pushing back and forth, etc. Chair races seem like they'd be a lot more interesting than learning anything in school. And I would know, since I'm in a swivel chair with wheels right now, and the only reason I'm not spinning around and doing "chair jousting" is because I'm busy procrastinating on slashdot.
I can just see it now. Next they come up with one to detect "body heat" in the finger.
Or they just try to ban gummi bears. If they're coming up with a stupid fingerprint scanner, these are obviously the typical school administrators, cut from the same cloth as those who gave their students laptops and didn't tell them they'd be watching them through the webcam at all times, adding to the contraband list is probably going to be their first reaction. Maybe if the ban fails miserably, they'll just tattoo barcodes onto their foreheads.
I suspect the public would not be so willing to accept encroaching police states and governments slowly taking away our rights if schools had to actually justify shit like this to the students.
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It's not diminishing returns for TSA though. Every time a terrorist plot is uncovered they need to do -something- to make it look like they're doing something real. The reality is that if someone is determined enough and not a goddamn idiot, they are going to be able to bring down a plane. Fortunately, the terrorists are idiots for now, but if most people realized how ineffective TSA was, we'd cut their funding dramatically and fire most of them.
Security theater actually works quite well for the actors and a gullible audience, though it does very little towards actually security.
Okay, so you can fool people into thinking those buttons do something. Is there a point to it though? Elevators in this building, the doors stay open for 30 seconds, that's 5 seconds of the door being open when I need it to be open and 25 seconds of "why isn't it closing?" Some engineer things that's an ideal amount of time in any situation despite what the passengers might think?
I on the other hand, prefer it when people put ad homenim attacks in the first line so I know if it's going to be worth reading or not.
Me too, but I don't think we're going to get anywhere on that without voters really being outraged about it. Seems like everyone outside of slashdot regards them as no different from the metal detectors.
One time when flying with a friend, they had the backscatter machine. I decided to take a stand for privacy and said I didn't want to be scanned and submitted to a patdown. Everyone looked at me strange, and my friend loudly commented "Dude, you must have an embarrassingly small penis." Which was just plain mean and hurtful and totally not true at all (my gun collection is for defense, not compensation). But anyway, I don't think most people care about this. Naturally we're not going to get a politician shutting it down if no one cares abougt it
Not only is it EASY to get harsh, but when companies flatly lie to customers, the price *should* be many times the amount of profit they made using the lie. Brushing it off as "only a marketing catch-phrase" is ignorant at best.
I agree. It's bad enough when large corporations capture the agencies supposed to be regulating them. Why are we giving them the benefit of the doubt? What the fuck for? WHat have they ever done for anything other than their shareholders? They can't even live up to the extremely low standards the industry has set for itself, and we're supposed to feel sorry for them? I'll say we're being to harsh on these companies if and when we consider hanging the executives for rounding up to the nearest minute. Reserving judgement for using sleazy marketing terms? No, judge away. I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they're not trying to stagnate the whole mobile industry so they never have to upgrade their equipment again, but they are definitely lying through their teeth.
and you can steal her away from that Jock asshole..... (a side note, you may consider renewing your health/life insurance as well before you do this)
For those of us who have entered the age where our more jockly peers are becoming less jockey and more pudgy, that second part still actually holds true.
People who blindly yell 'Correlation is not causation' should be slapped with a trout.'
Yeah, but where would we get a trout? For me, fishing is NOT correlated with obtaining a trout, it's correlated with getting angry or drunk.
Are we really linking to stories at the left-wing Huffington Post? I can't imagine people being okay with Brietbart editorials being linked here.
Are you really trying to equate the Huffington Post to Andrew Breitbart? That's a bit like me saying George Will is about as respectable as Michael Moore, or me saying Rush Limbaugh is as high as Lindsay Lohan.
At least until the "birther" conspiracy theorists get slightly more crazy...
My initial thought is that they're recording peoples' responses to product placement / subliminal advertising, in an attempt to gauge the effectiveness thereof.
I thought it was to catch people using hand cameras to record the movie and upload it. After all, they seem so convinced that the reason people aren't spending $30 to go out to the latest crappy movie is because they can download a shaky, poorly contrasted, terrible audio, low resolution version of it for free.
As far as I understand, what this tool does is it sniffs the data in unencrypted WiFi sessions, determines when people are logging in (using a password) to a website that does not employ encryption, and allows the user to hijack their session.
Wait, people weren't doing that before? I wasted all this time NOT logging into my bank account on my nintendo DS in an airport?!?!
Kidding about that last part, but were people doing this before and this is just a prepackaged easy way for everyone to do it?
Pardon my ignorance, but why isn't it finished?
Since we learned to grow them in mice... infinity.
First on the list is livers? I think not. Like the rest of us men, they wish for one thing: larger drinks.
And even if it weren't WHY THE FUCK IS POLLING ALL THEY TALK ABOUT? Paying attention to the news will tell you 1. Who is running 2. How likely they are to get elected 3. If they are having sex with someone who isn't their spouse 4. What their opponents are saying about them, in order of most to least information.
Not on there: their history or what they will actually do (if anything) when elected. Who do I vote for, the guy who's likely to win? Because that's about the only thing you'll get from the news.
How a candidate is polling is of interest to the candidate and his staff, and to people who already know who they are voting for to either say "Ha ha, we're going to win!" or "Damnit, we're going to lose!" To everyone else, it should be trivial information.
The cytokine storm that causes fatalities with some influenza variants is due (roughly speaking) to the body breaking down the virus too quickly, swamping its ability to dispose of the byproducts
On the other hand, there are of course viruses where this is not the case. HIV, or herpes for example. I'm guessing ebola as well. Furthermore, the byproducts produced sound like that's a more general problem that could be solved seperately: you could take this drug to kill all the viruses, and then another drug to help you deal with the debris potentially (though I have no idea if such a drug is out there).
More tools are always better, of course.
I've got something that's even -more- interesting than Rush Limbaugh's opinion: my cat just farted, and it sounded like "The wording of the bill is also terrible, 'appeals to a deviant or morbid interest' and has no 'serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value' can be interpreted as every single videogame or alternatively no videogames whatsoever."
I mean, not only is my cat's asshole just as credible as Rush Limbaugh's mouth, but it also has better analysis as to why the law is a bad idea.
$100 billion for space-based research or $100 billion for Welfare and War. Not really a touch decision.
Which type of welfare? Corporate welfare? Welfare spent on people who are abusing the system? Or just all welfare?
While it's easy to find plenty of examples of where welfare was wasteful, there's plenty of good that comes out of it. Meanwhile, as the summary mentions, it's hard to find tangible benefits of the ISS. Welfare or the ISS may not be a tough decision if you think that all welfare is wasted money*, but it would be a tough decision for some of us.
(* we'd be wasting our time to discuss it if so)
Isn't this one of the companies (along with google) that declared that "privacy on the web no longer exists" or something along those lines?
I was under the impression that was just the CEO making an ill-advised statement. I don't think that's officially company policy.
Well, the starvation is shocking to those of us with an iota of compassion.
Also, some of the ridiculous follies of the government are just plain funny.
Example A: the worlds ugliest permanently unfinished hotel.
Example B: To save on electricity, traffic is directed by police, evidently only women and they only turn counterclockwise. I guess because dear leader only likes it when girls turn counterclockwise.
TFA mentions that there are already patrols near the border trying triangulate the mobile phones transmitting the images into China: I think the secret is out on -how- they do it.
I sure hope there is no one ACTUALLY named Kim Dong-cheol then.
North Korean secret police: Are you Kim Dong-cheol?
KDC: Yes sir, but not the one who is in this article!
Police: Better safe than sorry, you get 12 years hard labor.
KDC: I'm not a driver for any corporation! I don't have any cameras!
Police: Well then 20 years for embarrassing dear leader!
Me thinks that someone is trying to convince schools that these are not just the same old desks with wheels on the bottom.
If you've spent any time in a schoolroom in the last 15 years, you're familiar with the high pitched whine of metal scraping against linoleum, as students rearrange their chairs and desks to whatever activity is going on. It seems like a minor annoyance, but it's a serious design problem: School furniture was largely designed 50 years ago for static, face-forward teaching. It isn't suited to the myriad forms of teaching that take place in the modern classroom.
OH GOD, THE HIGH PITCHED WHINE that echos forever preventing any learning from happening! If only that antiquated furniture was designed for the myriad of desk configurations needed in today's fast-paced modern classroom.
In my day when we had to move desks around, we just slid them. On the snow, uphill at all times. There was at most a minute of squeeking and then the desk distraction was largely dispensed with.
Swivel chairs, on the other hand, seem like some of the ADHD students would be spinning around every few minutes, pushing back and forth, etc. Chair races seem like they'd be a lot more interesting than learning anything in school. And I would know, since I'm in a swivel chair with wheels right now, and the only reason I'm not spinning around and doing "chair jousting" is because I'm busy procrastinating on slashdot.
Probably Verizon, since by 2042 they'll have the best temporal coverage of any of the major providers. Their 3022G network isn't the fastest though.
I can just see it now. Next they come up with one to detect "body heat" in the finger.
Or they just try to ban gummi bears. If they're coming up with a stupid fingerprint scanner, these are obviously the typical school administrators, cut from the same cloth as those who gave their students laptops and didn't tell them they'd be watching them through the webcam at all times, adding to the contraband list is probably going to be their first reaction. Maybe if the ban fails miserably, they'll just tattoo barcodes onto their foreheads.
I suspect the public would not be so willing to accept encroaching police states and governments slowly taking away our rights if schools had to actually justify shit like this to the students.