Few people in this country (U.S.A.) realize how we look to the rest of the world. Imagine that had McCain won the last presidential election (him being a hawk, likely to continue indefinitely Iraq and Afghanistan occupation, just as likely to step up against Iran to maybe even the point of direct action) how would we respond to foreign governments setting up "human rights" web sites and helping to organize opposition to McCain, especially if those countries were ones like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others?
"each characterizing the length of a certain repeated sequence of 'junk' DNA that differs from person to person" and a significant portion of the DNA was supposed to be junk only a few years ago. Depending on the length of the 'junk' sequences and how they are hashed in principal yes they would be unique and a good one way hash of the dna with low collision rate and no discrimination. This is how fingerprints are matched and stored anyways. But if any of those change like large population change, I do mean massive on an order of magnitude, or the 'junk' isn't really junk major changes would have to be made. In the end the most important thing to remember is that anything that makes the police's job easier make anyones job abusing the info easier. I mean come on police we pay you, demand that you have to take the most effort possible so that a) you are guaranteed work and b) any abuse of the system is harder.
that is exactly what the law is for. from wikipedia "From Medieval Latin (penitentiaria), term used by the Quakers in Pennsylvania during the 1790s, describing a place for penitents to dwell upon their sins."
There is lots of money to be made in economic shakeups. When companies hit hard times, or individuals, to make ends meet they often sell anything they can. And sales go a lot faster when you price the item cheaper, now when the economy starts heading back up and things are more certain the value of those assets rise as well.
Biometrics are much more secure than your average card. Really what do you need to get a drivers license? A birth certificate and proof of residency, magazine subscription and cable bill, which are all easily forged especially given any more time than a week. Now with biometrics there is a lot of research into aliveness detection, you can't simply put a disconnected finger onto the scanner but who would want to since your future employer will hopefully be watching over the process similar affect for most other spoofs. However this will not come cheap "Mr. Schumer said employers would be able to buy a scanner to check the IDs for as much as $800." Now that seems a bit light for anything with the amount of security you will want for this project. You would have to have plenty of new hires to make this worth your while especially since it will be reducing your access to cheap labor in an artificially inflated labor market, what else do you think minimum wages are and who the hell tries to raise a family on one? Combine with that the fact that instead of being in many different databases this will all be in one which will be hard to crack but the more valuable information you have the more worthwhile it will be to someone. Now I do like the idea of biometrics and am studying the field for my major and it is not the systems that are the problem but the people running them that cause the real threat. So do this, stop screwing over the rest of the world and demand fair trade policies, require that if you want to import you have to observe U.S. labor standards, hold minimum wage at present levels until it means absolutely nothing allowing people to work cheap jobs if they really need the money so lower unemployment and more output since jobs that weren't worth hiring for at inflated labor prices now become economical and suddenly there is less reason to import except where there is real competitive advantage and wages will go up relatively world wide along with productivity.
how exactly would they be turned off of it by hearing it while loitering. Presumably they already don't like it since it appears that it drives them away, and without the music they still loiter etc. Now if the music was played before cops came and beat them up to remove them then they disliked the music you would have pavlovian condition yes. But in this case the music already elicits a negative response itself. one might ask what awful state our youth are in that the classics repel them but remember the classics are the pieces of art that you like to say you like and don't necessarily honestly like.
same complaint here. the reader itself is too expensive. while yes having a bookstore in hand and lots of cheap books is nice still not worth the cost of entry yet. I do still like having piles of books strew through the apartment as well. would probably end spending the money saved on books to only buy more books the instant I am done however. not that that is particularly bad.
well all she needs now is to read over your shoulder, or know your slashdot nick. Probably not too much to worry about but I would have posted anonymous.
The people who use the fear of terrorists to make their job easier at the expense of liberties meant to protect citizens, guilty or not remember like you said they can be issued against almost anyone for little justification, ARE the TERRORISTS that hate your freedoms.
This just in, people lead regular boring lives that are easy to predict with little concern for being tracked since most of us are not spies being constantly hunted. More at 11.
I also suggested that you look into the history of the cross cultural issue. Terrorists don't simply hate our freedoms, they have many concerns some grounded in reality and some not so. The main issue is that the land of modern day Israel was 90% Arab until the early 1900s. The accusations of Mossad involvement in the recent Dubai assassination is not the ravings of a deranged racist, while there is little evidence available currently, Israel has assassinated many Palestinians in the past for political reasons. Demolition of homes of the family, who themselves are only guilty of being related, of suicide bombers definition collective punishment which is illegal under international law happens frequently. Blockade of Gaza after the Hamas political victory, little to no serious claims of voter fraud, is not supporting democracy like the United States claims it is doing but suppressing all but the democracy we like thus denying the right to self determination as well as collective punishment and degrading their right to elect their own leaders. That blockade has only recently been loosened slightly. All this while Israel receives billions in direct unconditional military aid from the U.S. amounting to 20% of its military budget a relationship which in fact is unique due to the fact that Israel can spend 26% of our military aid on domestic military expenditure, 100% must be spent on the U.S. arms industry for every other receiver of U.S. aid. There are many more grievances that can be listed but getting to know an Arab lets them be a person, which is a lot easier to forget when they are just words on a screen.
You could always just get to know an arab. They are all over the place. There is also lots of information on why there are cross cultural problems, its a thing called research.
So I can bring a couple of say shot sized containers as long as they are in a bag? I have not flown in a couple of years, can't remember if it was before or after the liquid thing, but I am really glad. Airlines used to be a customer service industry but now it is just like prison. This will make my next flight a little better if I really have to fly before they wake up and realize that our special relationship with Israel is why the terrorists hate us and not our freedom. $30bn over the next ten years in direct military aid and Israel gets 20% of its military budget directly or indirectly from the U.S.
but screaming out online where a bunch of other people are doing the exact same thing all in the same place with the same interface IS making it easier. and this is not targeting anyone specific but anyone in general. If the criminal is sitting in front of a house he can only see what is on that street, why not observe everyone in a city all at once without any effort.
I thought it was much less than a liter that you could bring one. Wasnt it like 3oz. Also in the USA today they talked about a plan to deploy portable bomb detectors in the terminal to randomly screen passengers.
Actually I was commenting on OPEC countries and specifically Saudi Arabia's immense need for the oil money, so much so that while they tell their people they don't like the U.S. meanwhile taking truckloads of our money. I can't speak much of the Russian economy or oil. But while OPEC talks about keeping prices up they are only as powerful to do that as their weakest economy since that will be the first to exceed its quotas to hopefully increase income and followed by the rest of the countries.
yes because there is no way that a model that predicts weather over long periods of time years/decades can have periodic variances day to day. THey were saying the same here until I pointed out 2 weeks ago it was 60 then by the next weekend it was down to 10.
Cat: C'mon buddy I'm not asking you to do anything I wouldn't do.
Rimmer: You? You would sacrifice yourself for the good of the crew?
Cat: No, I would sacrifice your life for the good of the crew.
in all fairness he was guilty, of tax evasion which they were able to prove. but yes it does seem almost unconstitutional that they can charge him for some other crime and use the harshest sentence available just because of their suspicion. I'm sure the modern equivalent would be searching someones house for a crime they suspect you of and upon finding nothing except a bunch of illegal downloads on your computer convict you of that for the max sentence, or alternatively use that to "encourage" you to confess to their suspicion. however that is why search warrants are supposed to be specific on the target of the search.
Were all traitors, terrorists, radicals and patriots. Not all labels were applied at the time. An important part of the right to bear arms is denying the state the right to monopoly of force. "And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Jefferson
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Few people in this country (U.S.A.) realize how we look to the rest of the world. Imagine that had McCain won the last presidential election (him being a hawk, likely to continue indefinitely Iraq and Afghanistan occupation, just as likely to step up against Iran to maybe even the point of direct action) how would we respond to foreign governments setting up "human rights" web sites and helping to organize opposition to McCain, especially if those countries were ones like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others?
"each characterizing the length of a certain repeated sequence of 'junk' DNA that differs from person to person" and a significant portion of the DNA was supposed to be junk only a few years ago. Depending on the length of the 'junk' sequences and how they are hashed in principal yes they would be unique and a good one way hash of the dna with low collision rate and no discrimination. This is how fingerprints are matched and stored anyways. But if any of those change like large population change, I do mean massive on an order of magnitude, or the 'junk' isn't really junk major changes would have to be made. In the end the most important thing to remember is that anything that makes the police's job easier make anyones job abusing the info easier. I mean come on police we pay you, demand that you have to take the most effort possible so that a) you are guaranteed work and b) any abuse of the system is harder.
that is exactly what the law is for. from wikipedia "From Medieval Latin (penitentiaria), term used by the Quakers in Pennsylvania during the 1790s, describing a place for penitents to dwell upon their sins."
There is lots of money to be made in economic shakeups. When companies hit hard times, or individuals, to make ends meet they often sell anything they can. And sales go a lot faster when you price the item cheaper, now when the economy starts heading back up and things are more certain the value of those assets rise as well.
Biometrics are much more secure than your average card. Really what do you need to get a drivers license? A birth certificate and proof of residency, magazine subscription and cable bill, which are all easily forged especially given any more time than a week. Now with biometrics there is a lot of research into aliveness detection, you can't simply put a disconnected finger onto the scanner but who would want to since your future employer will hopefully be watching over the process similar affect for most other spoofs. However this will not come cheap "Mr. Schumer said employers would be able to buy a scanner to check the IDs for as much as $800." Now that seems a bit light for anything with the amount of security you will want for this project. You would have to have plenty of new hires to make this worth your while especially since it will be reducing your access to cheap labor in an artificially inflated labor market, what else do you think minimum wages are and who the hell tries to raise a family on one? Combine with that the fact that instead of being in many different databases this will all be in one which will be hard to crack but the more valuable information you have the more worthwhile it will be to someone. Now I do like the idea of biometrics and am studying the field for my major and it is not the systems that are the problem but the people running them that cause the real threat. So do this, stop screwing over the rest of the world and demand fair trade policies, require that if you want to import you have to observe U.S. labor standards, hold minimum wage at present levels until it means absolutely nothing allowing people to work cheap jobs if they really need the money so lower unemployment and more output since jobs that weren't worth hiring for at inflated labor prices now become economical and suddenly there is less reason to import except where there is real competitive advantage and wages will go up relatively world wide along with productivity.
how exactly would they be turned off of it by hearing it while loitering. Presumably they already don't like it since it appears that it drives them away, and without the music they still loiter etc. Now if the music was played before cops came and beat them up to remove them then they disliked the music you would have pavlovian condition yes. But in this case the music already elicits a negative response itself. one might ask what awful state our youth are in that the classics repel them but remember the classics are the pieces of art that you like to say you like and don't necessarily honestly like.
all I want is an os that I can change and set the schemes as I like. Seems like they only changed the wall paper anyways.
same complaint here. the reader itself is too expensive. while yes having a bookstore in hand and lots of cheap books is nice still not worth the cost of entry yet. I do still like having piles of books strew through the apartment as well. would probably end spending the money saved on books to only buy more books the instant I am done however. not that that is particularly bad.
well all she needs now is to read over your shoulder, or know your slashdot nick. Probably not too much to worry about but I would have posted anonymous.
wait cannibals what? that is a logical jump even evil Knievel could not make.
The people who use the fear of terrorists to make their job easier at the expense of liberties meant to protect citizens, guilty or not remember like you said they can be issued against almost anyone for little justification, ARE the TERRORISTS that hate your freedoms.
This just in, people lead regular boring lives that are easy to predict with little concern for being tracked since most of us are not spies being constantly hunted. More at 11.
I also suggested that you look into the history of the cross cultural issue. Terrorists don't simply hate our freedoms, they have many concerns some grounded in reality and some not so. The main issue is that the land of modern day Israel was 90% Arab until the early 1900s. The accusations of Mossad involvement in the recent Dubai assassination is not the ravings of a deranged racist, while there is little evidence available currently, Israel has assassinated many Palestinians in the past for political reasons. Demolition of homes of the family, who themselves are only guilty of being related, of suicide bombers definition collective punishment which is illegal under international law happens frequently. Blockade of Gaza after the Hamas political victory, little to no serious claims of voter fraud, is not supporting democracy like the United States claims it is doing but suppressing all but the democracy we like thus denying the right to self determination as well as collective punishment and degrading their right to elect their own leaders. That blockade has only recently been loosened slightly. All this while Israel receives billions in direct unconditional military aid from the U.S. amounting to 20% of its military budget a relationship which in fact is unique due to the fact that Israel can spend 26% of our military aid on domestic military expenditure, 100% must be spent on the U.S. arms industry for every other receiver of U.S. aid. There are many more grievances that can be listed but getting to know an Arab lets them be a person, which is a lot easier to forget when they are just words on a screen.
You could always just get to know an arab. They are all over the place. There is also lots of information on why there are cross cultural problems, its a thing called research.
So I can bring a couple of say shot sized containers as long as they are in a bag? I have not flown in a couple of years, can't remember if it was before or after the liquid thing, but I am really glad. Airlines used to be a customer service industry but now it is just like prison. This will make my next flight a little better if I really have to fly before they wake up and realize that our special relationship with Israel is why the terrorists hate us and not our freedom. $30bn over the next ten years in direct military aid and Israel gets 20% of its military budget directly or indirectly from the U.S.
but screaming out online where a bunch of other people are doing the exact same thing all in the same place with the same interface IS making it easier. and this is not targeting anyone specific but anyone in general. If the criminal is sitting in front of a house he can only see what is on that street, why not observe everyone in a city all at once without any effort.
It is a common agreement among these types of sites weather online dating or facefriendspace.com
I think xkcd demonstrates why fancy graphics are necessary. http://www.xkcd.com/676/
I thought it was much less than a liter that you could bring one. Wasnt it like 3oz. Also in the USA today they talked about a plan to deploy portable bomb detectors in the terminal to randomly screen passengers.
Actually I was commenting on OPEC countries and specifically Saudi Arabia's immense need for the oil money, so much so that while they tell their people they don't like the U.S. meanwhile taking truckloads of our money. I can't speak much of the Russian economy or oil. But while OPEC talks about keeping prices up they are only as powerful to do that as their weakest economy since that will be the first to exceed its quotas to hopefully increase income and followed by the rest of the countries.
yes because there is no way that a model that predicts weather over long periods of time years/decades can have periodic variances day to day. THey were saying the same here until I pointed out 2 weeks ago it was 60 then by the next weekend it was down to 10.
Cat: C'mon buddy I'm not asking you to do anything I wouldn't do. Rimmer: You? You would sacrifice yourself for the good of the crew? Cat: No, I would sacrifice your life for the good of the crew.
what you forget is they can live without our money only slightly less than we can live without their oil.
in all fairness he was guilty, of tax evasion which they were able to prove. but yes it does seem almost unconstitutional that they can charge him for some other crime and use the harshest sentence available just because of their suspicion. I'm sure the modern equivalent would be searching someones house for a crime they suspect you of and upon finding nothing except a bunch of illegal downloads on your computer convict you of that for the max sentence, or alternatively use that to "encourage" you to confess to their suspicion. however that is why search warrants are supposed to be specific on the target of the search.
Were all traitors, terrorists, radicals and patriots. Not all labels were applied at the time. An important part of the right to bear arms is denying the state the right to monopoly of force. "And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Jefferson