You completely misunderstand. I love privacy and freedom
but not privacy to conceal criminal acts, and freedom to commit them.
These two statements are irreconcilable. How can we know if the acts are criminal unless we're observing them? And how can we catch all criminal acts unless we're observing all acts?
One word: Warrants. Two words: Probable cause (because just "warrants" doesn't do it anymore, sadly).
One problem with the Slashdot demographics is that apparently 90% of our commenters edit uncompressed 1080p video while playing Crysis 3 on the other monitor. Because I'm curious what other possible use you could have for more than 8-16GB of RAM...although apparently "having to" run 6 10GB VMs at the same time--at home?!--is becoming popular.
And a 50" monitor?! Do you sit 10 ten feet away from your screen?
It's like 12 XVGA monitors with no bezels
That right there is damnably First World Problems.
The backblaze solution is a hard drive solution. The tape solution was the $15,000 per Petabyte solution, the backblaze solution is a hard drive solution costing $150,000 per Petabyte
Isn't Backblaze paying somebody else to backup your data in The Cloud? They could use an army of trained gerbils to store my data for all I care, as long as it has comparable bandwidth and integrity, etc. I don't call it a hard drive solution unless I have a disk farm under my control. Maybe my terminology is wrong, though.
So, using the backblaze solution brings the cost up to about 8.5 billion a year. Still within the theoretical budget of the NSA.
Yeah, I'll concede that now.
Not to mention that, as I and others have pointed out, speech recognition really is good enough these days that many conversations could be kept immediately available as a text transcript, possibly with short audio snippits of bits the speech recognition had trouble with and the actual full audio could be saved to tape.
You lose a lot of inflection and verbal cues in the transcription, though. When we're talking national security and a giant budget, why skimp?
Also, I don't think anyone on this thread except you imposed the restraint that the solution had to be immediately available online rather than after a brief delay.
I don't think I did either...by my math I just implied that the data had to be available sometime the same day (or within 24 hours, I guess) to get the bandwidth figure. Of course, the longer it takes to be available, the less valuable the system is for dealing with threats happening Right Now.
Yeah, I've used in on Windows from time to time and I was pretty satisfied. It's a rather first-world-problems complaint, but the interface chrome looks rather 90s-ish, though. I still haven't tracked down an installation candidate for Linux.
The reason I use Firefox is because it DOESN'T have the horrible Chrome interface. I've run out of curse words to describe my anger at all the interface overhauls over the last few years. MS Office...Unity...Firefox...Windows 8...*cough* Slashdot...
That's why I've developed the habit of saving after every couple sentences/several seconds. The program I'm using can crash at any point, and as long as it doesn't touch the file during the crash, I lose no more than a minute or two of work. Don't they teach kids basic computer use anymore?
To be fair, points 2-4 could almost equally apply to J Random Desktop Application as well. At least you might be able to still use the old version of the desktop program if they don't have activation, though.
Anything below 4.5 hours for me, although that was a couple years back when I could still handle 5 hours of sleep a night, and 4.5 for only 1 or 2 a week. Although getting any less than that wasn't practical more for the reason that I *would* sleep through the alarm rather than that I would feel like shit and be falling asleep the next day (although that was also true).
Once every couple months I would have a day where I slept through my alarm anyway and woke up at like 4pm:)
I'm not disagreeing with you; I just don't see how sleep deprivation occurring throughout human history proves that it doesn't cause brain damage. Maybe everybody has just lived with it/not noticed.
Is 30 the baseline for murder in the U.K.? In which case, it seems rather counter-intuitive that killing a member of the armed forces would get you *more* time...
Taking away one's freedom is a powerful deterrent. [...] It doesn't help.
You're contradicting yourself. Is it, or isn't it? Is a deterrent still powerful if lots of people ignore it?
Unless we specifically tell everyone every day that they're NOT getting anal raped because they're not committing crimes, it's not really positive reinforcement. Our freedoms are our "default state" and thus I argue that it's not possible to positively reinforce not-committing-crimes. You could reward everyone who has never been in prison somehow, but that's punishing you for past mistakes and kind of the same thing anyway.
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You completely misunderstand. I love privacy and freedom
but not privacy to conceal criminal acts, and freedom to commit them.
These two statements are irreconcilable. How can we know if the acts are criminal unless we're observing them? And how can we catch all criminal acts unless we're observing all acts?
One word: Warrants.
Two words: Probable cause (because just "warrants" doesn't do it anymore, sadly).
how to get rid of the police state without massive bloodshed
those responsible for bringing the police state into being...Hang, draw, and quarter them.
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Why US Gov't Retirement Involves a Hole in the Ground Near Pittsburgh
My first thought was that this was related to Centralia somehow...
One problem with the Slashdot demographics is that apparently 90% of our commenters edit uncompressed 1080p video while playing Crysis 3 on the other monitor. Because I'm curious what other possible use you could have for more than 8-16GB of RAM...although apparently "having to" run 6 10GB VMs at the same time--at home?!--is becoming popular.
And a 50" monitor?! Do you sit 10 ten feet away from your screen?
It's like 12 XVGA monitors with no bezels
That right there is damnably First World Problems.
You know, 28 *is* the current stable release...29 is barely beta 1.
I was starting to wonder whether you were still around here, man. :)
The backblaze solution is a hard drive solution. The tape solution was the $15,000 per Petabyte solution, the backblaze solution is a hard drive solution costing $150,000 per Petabyte
Isn't Backblaze paying somebody else to backup your data in The Cloud? They could use an army of trained gerbils to store my data for all I care, as long as it has comparable bandwidth and integrity, etc. I don't call it a hard drive solution unless I have a disk farm under my control. Maybe my terminology is wrong, though.
So, using the backblaze solution brings the cost up to about 8.5 billion a year. Still within the theoretical budget of the NSA.
Yeah, I'll concede that now.
Not to mention that, as I and others have pointed out, speech recognition really is good enough these days that many conversations could be kept immediately available as a text transcript, possibly with short audio snippits of bits the speech recognition had trouble with and the actual full audio could be saved to tape.
You lose a lot of inflection and verbal cues in the transcription, though. When we're talking national security and a giant budget, why skimp?
Also, I don't think anyone on this thread except you imposed the restraint that the solution had to be immediately available online rather than after a brief delay.
I don't think I did either...by my math I just implied that the data had to be available sometime the same day (or within 24 hours, I guess) to get the bandwidth figure. Of course, the longer it takes to be available, the less valuable the system is for dealing with threats happening Right Now.
I suppose it shouldn't surprise me...but members of the armed forces obviously signed up for, y'know, the possibility of dying in action...
If you logged in, you'd see that my signature reflects that very fact :)
If they roll out the beta to everybody, I'm gone.
Yeah, I've used in on Windows from time to time and I was pretty satisfied. It's a rather first-world-problems complaint, but the interface chrome looks rather 90s-ish, though. I still haven't tracked down an installation candidate for Linux.
Maybe the smartest person on the Internet can explain how to close <quote> tags properly, too...
And your link is still broken.
Is "Fuckle Chrap" supposed to be "Google Chrome"? Stretching it a bit too far there.
The reason I use Firefox is because it DOESN'T have the horrible Chrome interface. I've run out of curse words to describe my anger at all the interface overhauls over the last few years. MS Office...Unity...Firefox...Windows 8...*cough* Slashdot...
Ah, I see. I was parsing your post weird :P Sorry.
That's why I've developed the habit of saving after every couple sentences/several seconds. The program I'm using can crash at any point, and as long as it doesn't touch the file during the crash, I lose no more than a minute or two of work. Don't they teach kids basic computer use anymore?
Why not?
To be fair, points 2-4 could almost equally apply to J Random Desktop Application as well. At least you might be able to still use the old version of the desktop program if they don't have activation, though.
Anything below 4.5 hours for me, although that was a couple years back when I could still handle 5 hours of sleep a night, and 4.5 for only 1 or 2 a week. Although getting any less than that wasn't practical more for the reason that I *would* sleep through the alarm rather than that I would feel like shit and be falling asleep the next day (although that was also true).
Once every couple months I would have a day where I slept through my alarm anyway and woke up at like 4pm :)
How do you "select against" a voluntary activity? If we're stubborn enough we'll just do it anyway.
Why? Brain damage isn't passed on.
I'm not disagreeing with you; I just don't see how sleep deprivation occurring throughout human history proves that it doesn't cause brain damage. Maybe everybody has just lived with it/not noticed.
Is 30 the baseline for murder in the U.K.? In which case, it seems rather counter-intuitive that killing a member of the armed forces would get you *more* time...
Taking away one's freedom is a powerful deterrent. [...] It doesn't help.
You're contradicting yourself. Is it, or isn't it? Is a deterrent still powerful if lots of people ignore it?
Unless we specifically tell everyone every day that they're NOT getting anal raped because they're not committing crimes, it's not really positive reinforcement. Our freedoms are our "default state" and thus I argue that it's not possible to positively reinforce not-committing-crimes. You could reward everyone who has never been in prison somehow, but that's punishing you for past mistakes and kind of the same thing anyway.
I don't trust anyone
a VM I rent
WTF
I hope that apple dies; their products are horrible.
They're almost as horrible as your spelling and punctuation.
Because Google Docs is used for serious business applications?
Libre/OpenOffice also work if you lose your Internet connection, an ability which seems to be becoming rarer and rarer.