Substitute storage array and you might be right. From what I've read, it almost certainly wasn't a trivial amount of data as it included treatment plans, history, etc.. Since it was for a former employee, you have to wonder why they couldn't either just ask for a report to be printed, or something else. It is very hard to believe that this isn't a massive over-reach.
I don't know about that. Right now all we have is the plaintiff's word for it that proper protocols weren't followed. They admit there was a warrant.
Let's get some facts before we jump to conclusions. If we have a story everytime someone cries foul, there won't be enough bandwidth for anything else.
Now if someone gets convicted, or slapped with a zillion dollar fine, then we'll have a story.
I've long noticed that ants seem to have a predilection for electricity. They crawl all over electrical conduits, enter homes at electrical outlets, etc.
News flash: Star Trek was never as good as you remember. It was never about "ideas," it was never "sci fi" in the narrow definition presented above, it was never NOT a caricature, and the reason it was never "cool" is because it was a plodding, meandering mess with shitty dialogue and poor production values.
Not that I disagree with you, but since there is a very widespread ideal notion of what Star Trek was, it seems like someone would have the vision to try to make that ideal real.
But no, let's just take some generic Hollywood pablum, stick some names from a popular franchise on it so it will sell, and leave the thinking for someone else.
Yeah, I thought the first one was a mildly entertaining adventure movie, but not Star Trek.
I'll only go see this one if I decide to shell out $20 for an evening of mild entertainment. More likely I'll stay home and watch the Harry Potter movies.
You're trying to claim that the original StarTrek wasn't a chauvinistic, womanising series in which Uhura was portrayed as an independant woman?
If you're concerned with chauvinism, you should have noticed that ToS was a parable about an international crew under the benevolent command of an American captain, who occasionally had to yank the Russian's chain to keep him under control.
Not to mention that we have no clear definition for bare intelligence as it stands. And this braggart thinks we can just hook up enough xboxes and away we go? Hah! Neuroscience isn't following his lead because he's uneducated.
Actually he's one of the world's leading computational neuroscientists, and he's not proposing to just hook a lot of computers together.
He's proposing to simulate the brain from the neuron level up. And he just won a billion-euro award to pursue that.
I don't doubt for a second that this was an American agent. But I would think in every situation there is a reason everything happens when it did. Why did the Russians nab him now. Why not keep him under surveillance let him reveal traitors to the FSB as they get recruited? They obviously were not all that serious or they wouldn't have promptly turned him back over to the US. So what is up?
When the article says "The incident comes amid a new chill in Russian-U.S. relations sparked by the Syrian crisis and concern in Washington over what it sees as President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on human rights.", it should probably say that it comes because of the chill.
The entire field of Psychiatry was created by the pharmaceutical industry with the express purpose of selling more drugs.
Actually, psychiatry was created by people who wanted to explain everything as the consequence of feeling guilty about jacking off. The pharmaceuticals came along later.
And pace the whiners, drugs *do* help a lot of people. It's hit-and-miss, and not much more scientific than "let's try this and see if it works", but at least that's an approach based on evidence rather than theories about wanking off.
Also, we've made a *lot* of progress in finding effective drugs over the past decades. If you think our methods are sloppy now, turn back the clock 30, 40, or 50 years, and see how well we were treating mental problems then.
Hopefully someday we'll actually understand mental/brain disorders and know how (and whether) to treat them. But we're not there yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Usually we don't discuss these things until they appear on the Bad Astronomy blog.
As a practical matter, it's criminal when a court says it is. Meanwhile we've just got another story on the internet.
Substitute storage array and you might be right. From what I've read, it almost certainly wasn't a trivial amount of data as it included treatment plans, history, etc.. Since it was for a former employee, you have to wonder why they couldn't either just ask for a report to be printed, or something else. It is very hard to believe that this isn't a massive over-reach.
I don't know about that. Right now all we have is the plaintiff's word for it that proper protocols weren't followed. They admit there was a warrant.
Let's get some facts before we jump to conclusions. If we have a story everytime someone cries foul, there won't be enough bandwidth for anything else.
Now if someone gets convicted, or slapped with a zillion dollar fine, then we'll have a story.
They seized 60 million records of 10 million people because of 1 possible tax cheat?
Maybe they confiscated the disk drive.
Let us know when you have the other side of the story.
You forgot to mention the girls.
What most people want is a place where they can have everything and do anything, and not suffer any negative consequences.
Some idealists apparently aren't aware that Utopia means "nowhere".
LoL
Bell will likely owe some law firm some bucks.
Assuming it works like it does in the USA.
I've long noticed that ants seem to have a predilection for electricity. They crawl all over electrical conduits, enter homes at electrical outlets, etc.
News flash: Star Trek was never as good as you remember. It was never about "ideas," it was never "sci fi" in the narrow definition presented above, it was never NOT a caricature, and the reason it was never "cool" is because it was a plodding, meandering mess with shitty dialogue and poor production values.
Not that I disagree with you, but since there is a very widespread ideal notion of what Star Trek was, it seems like someone would have the vision to try to make that ideal real.
But no, let's just take some generic Hollywood pablum, stick some names from a popular franchise on it so it will sell, and leave the thinking for someone else.
Dear Moderators,
"Troll" does not mean "I disagree with the expressed opinion". Consider posting an intelligent reply instead.
Yeah, I thought the first one was a mildly entertaining adventure movie, but not Star Trek.
I'll only go see this one if I decide to shell out $20 for an evening of mild entertainment. More likely I'll stay home and watch the Harry Potter movies.
You're trying to claim that the original StarTrek wasn't a chauvinistic, womanising series in which Uhura was portrayed as an independant woman?
If you're concerned with chauvinism, you should have noticed that ToS was a parable about an international crew under the benevolent command of an American captain, who occasionally had to yank the Russian's chain to keep him under control.
Will it pretend to ignore you while hitting on a co-ed at the end of the bar?
pretend?
I thought the last story said we had 30 years before this happens.
The question that actually needs to be asked is, will the people who own the robots let the rest of us have any food?
It's acceptable to grammar nazi myself, isn't it? :-)
lazy fare.
Not to mention that we have no clear definition for bare intelligence as it stands. And this braggart thinks we can just hook up enough xboxes and away we go? Hah! Neuroscience isn't following his lead because he's uneducated.
Actually he's one of the world's leading computational neuroscientists, and he's not proposing to just hook a lot of computers together.
He's proposing to simulate the brain from the neuron level up. And he just won a billion-euro award to pursue that.
If it's on the internet, maybe it will post to Slashdot as an A/C.
Except that this isn't unusual and won't have any long-reaching consequences.
A better explanation is that the GP hasn't noticed that Slashdot posts slow down around this time of day (GMT).
I don't doubt for a second that this was an American agent. But I would think in every situation there is a reason everything happens when it did. Why did the Russians nab him now. Why not keep him under surveillance let him reveal traitors to the FSB as they get recruited? They obviously were not all that serious or they wouldn't have promptly turned him back over to the US. So what is up?
When the article says "The incident comes amid a new chill in Russian-U.S. relations sparked by the Syrian crisis and concern in Washington over what it sees as President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on human rights.", it should probably say that it comes because of the chill.
See also, 'game'.
The entire field of Psychiatry was created by the pharmaceutical industry with the express purpose of selling more drugs.
Actually, psychiatry was created by people who wanted to explain everything as the consequence of feeling guilty about jacking off. The pharmaceuticals came along later.
And pace the whiners, drugs *do* help a lot of people. It's hit-and-miss, and not much more scientific than "let's try this and see if it works", but at least that's an approach based on evidence rather than theories about wanking off.
Also, we've made a *lot* of progress in finding effective drugs over the past decades. If you think our methods are sloppy now, turn back the clock 30, 40, or 50 years, and see how well we were treating mental problems then.
Hopefully someday we'll actually understand mental/brain disorders and know how (and whether) to treat them. But we're not there yet.
Derp slashdot, just derp.
Is derp a verb now?
And is slashdot the direct object, or are you telling slashdot to derp?
If you wanted actual security, you'd use a real program to do it instead of an app.
If you wanted actual security, you wouldn't have it on a computer.