long story short, its apples and oranges, not parallel case
Except that in VA you are only allowed to shoot if you life is threatened, and not for the sake of protecting property. In no way did his daughter threaten his life.
So it is a parallel case. The deputy did something that was against the law, for which if anyone else had done it they would have been in jail faster than a speeding bullet.
While a death did not occur in this case in SW VA, a deputy shot his own daughter who was sneaking back home in through the garage at 3:30AM,
Deputy hear's noises in garage at 3:30AM.. check Deputy draws gun.. check Deputy has no idea who was in garage.. check Deputy blindly shoots said person.. check Deputy not charged with anything.. WTF?!??!?!
This year I delved into a Debian system, the first time I had really used a linux system in decades. What scared me was that when I needed to edit something my muscle memory took over and before I knew it I was happily editing away in vi.
I haven't used vi since well before the turn of the century.
Possibility 4) Hardlinking to a specific iPod makes it harder to hack the prosthetic arm from.
Bricking a device because a external independent device which is well known to be fragile and/or a target of theft has died/lost/stolen is a pretty bad design.
And if the external device is not independent, but is in fact required part of the bricked devices operation - then that is also bad design
At my local library they have folded the Sci-Fi section in with the general fiction books. Which means I can no longer browse just Sci-Fi books. I am not sure why they did it, but what irks me a bit is that the Mystery section still remain separate.
If a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, peeping tom laws already say you cannot look or take photos.
Tell that to the paparazzi. There is a whole industry devoted to finding public locations where you can spy on celebs, and then using the longest telephoto lens needed to get the shot.
Two City Council members today will unveil a draft ordinance that would make it a crime to use a drone to film, audiotape or photograph people on their private property without their consent.
Which basically goes against well established photography law that basically says if you can see it from a public location then its fair game.
OTOH I'm not sure how you can reasonably legislate pics taken from drones. Do you now define a private location to include the airspace above it? But what if I am in public airspace, yet high enough to see over a wall?
Honestly, just substitute "bus" for any other mode of transportation. Go out on a limb and consider the greater possibilities.
There will always be something/someone that this will not affect, great. Maybe you living in a nuclear bunker with a sophisticated air and water filtration system, good for you.
It's everyone's problem when some person in Liberia, is now scared for his life and flees without knowing he is carrying the virus. In 48 hours he might be sitting next to you on a bus!
Ha! Ain't going to happen.
I live in a suburb in the US with ZERO public transportation options. Not only that I won't pass them on the street either as there are no frickin' sidewalks as well.
This, along with the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, etc., etc., are nothing more than big business. When players are bought and sold, the "team" with the most money normally wins. I'm very much in favor of seeing elite competition, but all of the chest thumping by teams like this is meaningless.
I have a saying "Sport is something you do, entertainment is something you watch"
But what is even more criminal is all these teams that have all that money to spend on their players, still force cities to build them stadiums and training facilities, or they threaten to walk. That is is a racket, plain and simple.
And I still have to turn it off after a couple minutes because it's putting me to sleep.
So right there bro. That's why I'm drawn to the NFL. That is just so exciting to watch in comparison. The anticipation of spotting the 15 minutes totality of the ball actually in play over a three hour game is so addictive. That really keeps me on the edge of my seat every time. Its like an extended "Where's Wally?" game right there on my TV./sarcasm
Haters going to hate no matter what.
You don't like the sport, then turn it off. No one is forcing you to watch it, and no-one is saying that you have to like it.
This system is very different. The Kinect has a deep field of view, but all the demos show this working in a very short range. I haven't yet read the paper, but I'm wondering if that's the point of the IR.
From watching the video my understanding is that they illuminate the subject with a fixed IR source and map the drop off of the reflected IR in 2D space and then interpret that drop off as a depth map of the object they are looking at. Which looks surpassingly accurate for the sort of use cases they demonstrate. They also point out that this technique is not a general purpose 3D system.
At the very end of the video it describes how the system is tuned to skin albedo. The only problem with this is that various races around the world have different albedos - which does have a real world effect in photography when trying to expose correctly for skin. In the video they mentioned training the system on the user, but all users shown in the video were white - so I can't say how well it would work for non-whites. But in general I am impressed with what they have done.
Back in 2009, in Better Off Ted episode 4 "Racial Sensitivity", they developed a security system that had issues with skin albedo and not detecting (from memory) dark skinned people - which resulted in all sorts of hijinks for the African American employees
I can change my password anytime if I think somebody copied it. I cannot change my fingerprint or retina. There is no way I'm giving random webshops or google my biometric data.
Given that your current password is not stored in plain text (hard to keep a straight face when typing that), I'd assume that your retinal password would not be stored as a plain image file as well.
Instead I can imagine that a hash of your retinal image is stored as your password, and that you can update your retinal password by rescanning your eyes and generating a new hash, which you can authoritatively tell the server is now your new password. Thus when the server is hacked and your retinal password compromised, you can generate a new one.
Note that I am not a security researcher and have no idea if what I just said is pure BS or not. However I would hope that people who ARE security researchers have already thought about these aspects.
This is roughly the equivalent of blocking Windows Vista. Vista was released in 2007 (January) as was Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 2007 (October)
And my desktop Mac is stuck on Snow Leopard because Apple decided that my hardware can't run any OS-X later than that, regardless of the CPU being capable of doing it.
Yes I have a FB account (for various reasons) but when ever I get the chance I always flag ads as being sexually explicit with the hope that it wastes more FB resources than they gain from me. Yeah, it may not actually do anything, but it keeps me happy.
(Likewise I also report unsolicited emails from major companies as spam)
And from TFA the target is 100kg Try lifting *that* more than a few times and see how you go.
I feel sorry for you that the amazing super-strength exoskeleton capable of lifting 1000 kg, and able to run all day didn't just spring into existence at the snap of your fingers. It really must be tough living in that fantasy world where research and development don't take time and resources.
Combine the two, and you have fully autonomous highway driving under regular conditions. You just have to fool the sensor, and sensors are easy to fool.
Yeah, but I'd be worried that the cruise control would punt the car into a corner at a rate at which the lane centering couldn't compensate. You really need a bit more smarts for simple autonomous driving scenarios.
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long story short, its apples and oranges, not parallel case
Except that in VA you are only allowed to shoot if you life is threatened, and not for the sake of protecting property. In no way did his daughter threaten his life.
So it is a parallel case. The deputy did something that was against the law, for which if anyone else had done it they would have been in jail faster than a speeding bullet.
While a death did not occur in this case in SW VA, a deputy shot his own daughter who was sneaking back home in through the garage at 3:30AM,
Deputy hear's noises in garage at 3:30AM .. check .. check .. check .. check .. WTF?!??!?!
Deputy draws gun
Deputy has no idea who was in garage
Deputy blindly shoots said person
Deputy not charged with anything
Loudoun deputy won’t face charges in accidental shooting of teen daughter
I want to know HTF this was classed as "Accidental". Talk about different rules for different people.
vi. Because emacs is for the devil.
This year I delved into a Debian system, the first time I had really used a linux system in decades. What scared me was that when I needed to edit something my muscle memory took over and before I knew it I was happily editing away in vi.
I haven't used vi since well before the turn of the century.
Anyone who thinks they can affect the whole world this much is a moron or shill for some environmental group.
So how do you account for:
The hole in the ozone layer and the successful global response to fix it
Acid rain destroying forests and the successful global response to fix it?
Were they also not man made problems that affected the world as a whole?
Possibility 4) Hardlinking to a specific iPod makes it harder to hack the prosthetic arm from.
Bricking a device because a external independent device which is well known to be fragile and/or a target of theft has died/lost/stolen is a pretty bad design.
And if the external device is not independent, but is in fact required part of the bricked devices operation - then that is also bad design
at least for the newer devices, all you need to do is enter the "serial number" of the hand into the app and it can control it.
Gawd .. whats worse: Bad security or No security?
I'm shocked.
Who knew that a system that lets you receive a phone call anywhere in the world can be used to tell where in the world you actually are??????
This is an aside to TFS, and more of a rant.
At my local library they have folded the Sci-Fi section in with the general fiction books. Which means I can no longer browse just Sci-Fi books. I am not sure why they did it, but what irks me a bit is that the Mystery section still remain separate.
If a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, peeping tom laws already say you cannot look or take photos.
Tell that to the paparazzi. There is a whole industry devoted to finding public locations where you can spy on celebs, and then using the longest telephoto lens needed to get the shot.
From TFA
Two City Council members today will unveil a draft ordinance that would make it a crime to use a drone to film, audiotape or photograph people on their private property without their consent.
Which basically goes against well established photography law that basically says if you can see it from a public location then its fair game.
OTOH I'm not sure how you can reasonably legislate pics taken from drones. Do you now define a private location to include the airspace above it? But what if I am in public airspace, yet high enough to see over a wall?
Honestly, just substitute "bus" for any other mode of transportation. Go out on a limb and consider the greater possibilities.
There will always be something/someone that this will not affect, great. Maybe you living in a nuclear bunker with a sophisticated air and water filtration system, good for you.
What about the people at risk?
Apparently Facebook's expertise is needed here as well
It's everyone's problem when some person in Liberia, is now scared for his life and flees without knowing he is carrying the virus. In 48 hours he might be sitting next to you on a bus!
Ha! Ain't going to happen.
I live in a suburb in the US with ZERO public transportation options. Not only that I won't pass them on the street either as there are no frickin' sidewalks as well.
a breakthrough from studying transparent zebra fish? I'll believe it when I see it.
I see what you did there.
No, you didn't see it
This, along with the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, etc., etc., are nothing more than big business. When players are bought and sold, the "team" with the most money normally wins. I'm very much in favor of seeing elite competition, but all of the chest thumping by teams like this is meaningless.
I have a saying "Sport is something you do, entertainment is something you watch"
But what is even more criminal is all these teams that have all that money to spend on their players, still force cities to build them stadiums and training facilities, or they threaten to walk. That is is a racket, plain and simple.
And I still have to turn it off after a couple minutes because it's putting me to sleep.
So right there bro. That's why I'm drawn to the NFL. That is just so exciting to watch in comparison. The anticipation of spotting the 15 minutes totality of the ball actually in play over a three hour game is so addictive. That really keeps me on the edge of my seat every time. Its like an extended "Where's Wally?" game right there on my TV. /sarcasm
Haters going to hate no matter what.
You don't like the sport, then turn it off. No one is forcing you to watch it, and no-one is saying that you have to like it.
My local library doesn't just have books.
It has:
Books (well yeah)
Magazines
Newspapers
Audio Books
DVDs
Meeting Rooms
Events
Internet Access
Printers
Photocopiers
In general it is trying to position itself as a local community resource
Somehow I can't see all of that being replaced by a Kindle, and thats without even going into what limited selection of titles the Kindle will have.
I've just started reading Robogenisis, the sequel to Robopocalypse. And you pull this shit on me?
This system is very different. The Kinect has a deep field of view, but all the demos show this working in a very short range. I haven't yet read the paper, but I'm wondering if that's the point of the IR.
From watching the video my understanding is that they illuminate the subject with a fixed IR source and map the drop off of the reflected IR in 2D space and then interpret that drop off as a depth map of the object they are looking at. Which looks surpassingly accurate for the sort of use cases they demonstrate. They also point out that this technique is not a general purpose 3D system.
At the very end of the video it describes how the system is tuned to skin albedo. The only problem with this is that various races around the world have different albedos - which does have a real world effect in photography when trying to expose correctly for skin. In the video they mentioned training the system on the user, but all users shown in the video were white - so I can't say how well it would work for non-whites. But in general I am impressed with what they have done.
Back in 2009, in Better Off Ted episode 4 "Racial Sensitivity", they developed a security system that had issues with skin albedo and not detecting (from memory) dark skinned people - which resulted in all sorts of hijinks for the African American employees
I can change my password anytime if I think somebody copied it. I cannot change my fingerprint or retina. There is no way I'm giving random webshops or google my biometric data.
Given that your current password is not stored in plain text (hard to keep a straight face when typing that), I'd assume that your retinal password would not be stored as a plain image file as well.
Instead I can imagine that a hash of your retinal image is stored as your password, and that you can update your retinal password by rescanning your eyes and generating a new hash, which you can authoritatively tell the server is now your new password. Thus when the server is hacked and your retinal password compromised, you can generate a new one.
Note that I am not a security researcher and have no idea if what I just said is pure BS or not. However I would hope that people who ARE security researchers have already thought about these aspects.
This is roughly the equivalent of blocking Windows Vista. Vista was released in 2007 (January) as was Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 2007 (October)
And my desktop Mac is stuck on Snow Leopard because Apple decided that my hardware can't run any OS-X later than that, regardless of the CPU being capable of doing it.
Seinfeld was in the $600,000 to $1,000,000 range (depending on the actor) back in the late 90's
Yes I have a FB account (for various reasons) but when ever I get the chance I always flag ads as being sexually explicit with the hope that it wastes more FB resources than they gain from me. Yeah, it may not actually do anything, but it keeps me happy.
(Likewise I also report unsolicited emails from major companies as spam)
would consider lifting 30Kg to be superhuman.
And from TFA the target is 100kg Try lifting *that* more than a few times and see how you go.
I feel sorry for you that the amazing super-strength exoskeleton capable of lifting 1000 kg, and able to run all day didn't just spring into existence at the snap of your fingers. It really must be tough living in that fantasy world where research and development don't take time and resources.
Combine the two, and you have fully autonomous highway driving under regular conditions. You just have to fool the sensor, and sensors are easy to fool.
Yeah, but I'd be worried that the cruise control would punt the car into a corner at a rate at which the lane centering couldn't compensate. You really need a bit more smarts for simple autonomous driving scenarios.