Yes, automate. The subthread was about a cop finally getting around to matching the fingerprints long available to LAPD against the FBI database.
The FBI database contains thousands of entries and is, of course, on-line (not on the Internet, but a terminal was, evidently, available to LAPD). The LAPD's database is (or should be) online too. There can only be so many different software packages for fingerprint maintainance and it is certainly within the LAPD's and/or FBI's resources to order converting "plugin" from their vendor if neccessary.
Once that is done, the software will be able to automatically check LAPD's entire archive for high-probability matches within hours. All new entries to the police department's database should also be checked immediately.
Creating such system requires one person within LAPD to have a combination of real CS degree, certain non-conformity with "established procedures" and above average persuasion power... Sadly, I doubt a government agency is capable of atracting a single such person.
Not sure about Kansas, but a Pensilvanian wrote today about average temperatures around him/her going down rather than up for the last few years. This matches my observations in the New England/New York "seaboard".
Canadians, on the other hand, do notice their ice receding and are worried about having to patrol their northern shores, which used to be unpassable just a decade ago...
So, it looks to the ignorant me, that exactly the opposite is happening -- the cold places are getting warmer, while the warm ones stay about the same or get a little colder. At least -- some of them...
And you are convinced, because you heard a man -- whose named you don't even remember -- interviewed on radio?.. So easily impressed, be sure not to tune to a radio cleric of some sort...
As for the subject at hand, I'll remain sceptical until Ice Age is adequately explained...
There was no humanity back then, but if there was, part of it would've blamed the phenomenon on the other part...
They need brainpower to automate doing it -- once and for all. Many organizations lack that, prefering to "work harder, not smarter" -- especially, government offices...
Although many advanced features are present, so are some rather annoying bugs. Some of them -- for years, since much earlier releases:-(
Sadly, the version, released with KDE-3.3, continues the poor tradition of features over bug-fixes. I understand, that adding features is usually more fun, than fixing bugs -- especially, someone else's, and a volunteer project will always be skewed towards the former, but other projects (inside KDE even) manage to impose discipline somehow...
I'm not sympathetic towards the South Koreans complaining about computer crimes -- thanks to the vast number of spam-relays in the country...
Of the 5366 IP-addresses currently blacklisted by SKeM
on my server, plenty (362 as I press "Submit", but still counting) are from South Korea. About 10 are from Chung-Ang University in Seoul (165.194/16), for example.
Not that their private sector is any better.
Mind you, these are not the IPs, that were once hijacked long ago -- SKeM automatically removes stale entries after two weeks -- these really are very recent spam sources.
what is to stop the executive branch (or DoD) from making mass secret arrests and refusing Habeus Corpus?
There is nothing now, and nothing ever was. Witness the detention of Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
We have the checks and balances, which help us recover our posture after shocks. But while regaining the steady, we will be rocking into different directions -- like all systems and structures.
Sorry to sound purish here, but it is not the lack Java, nor the lack of database functionality. It was the lack of total memory (volatile and otherwise). If you can not store the data, it does not matter, how you would organize it.
And once you can store the data on the device, being able to organize and access it in a particular way -- so that a particular programming technique works -- is only of marginal importance.
It is your CPU and bandwidth against the spammer's. A single machine would not do. You need thousands of Slashdot visitors to click on the link at (almost) the same time. For that, the proper link has to be on the front page...
If the bots become so good that the humans can't beat them, the humans will stop playing.
Behind every bot is a human (or an organization). The bots play with real money, so casino will get its piece.
There could be a danger for casinos on becoming dependent on a few big-players instead of many smaller ones, but so far the existence of star human players did not diminish the casinos' market too much. Why would a star bot be (substantially) more dangerous than a star human player?
preferential treatment must be given to foreign companies in governmental service contracts
Care to offer a link to the actual text? Not to some trade-union "interpretation", though...
Money that goes to your local community comes back into your pocket in the form of increased sales locally, and if you're an employee, increased job prospects locally. Money that goes overseas is gone, as good as if you'd burnt it.
I did not burn it -- I spent it. As in "exchanged for goods or services".
None of those are democracies- they're puppet governments
Exactly, what we have here ourselves... There is just no room for you in this world, is there. May I suggest a nice lamp-post with a view?
Aren't the alternatives to BIG MEDIA outlawed by the Bush Administration, with the Ministry of Truth being formed as we speak from the Faux News executives?
Well, my original suspicion was absolutely correct. You do belong on a lamp-post.
water supplies all over the world, even already privatized ones, need to be sold to foreign companies.
They don't need to be. All, WTO requires, is for there to be no laws preventing such sales.
When GATS is complete, your money you pay for water will be going someplace else.
As long as it leaves my pocket anyway, why do I care, where it goes?
You support the Bankers having control over ideas that they never had themselves - that's imperialism.
Yada-yada... Look up the definition.
Depends on what you're organizing them for
I am not organizing anyone.
we've yet to succeed at planting a democracy ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET.
Ooops... Your rage is taking the better of you -- gotta cut down on breaking windows. "ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET"? Phillippines? Germany? Japan? South Korea? Taiwan? These are direct "recipients" of democracy from us. There are countless others, who were helped less directly (like the former Soviet block -- almost entirely).
And my point is that if the end is evil, the means don't matter. The end is not justified by the means, no matter how much you want it to be.
What's evil? Selling an idea? Buying an idea? What's your problem?
But don't even attempt to pretend that the current market is anything more than a Lenin-esque atempt to steal money from the poor and give it to the rich.
I don't see, how "the current market" is stealing anything from anyone. Lenin-esque or not. May be, the little piece of the sky right above you fell down, but I don't see it.
how is having a multinational corporation charging people for water and stealing their land to put their farmers out of business
You are changing the subject and I will not bite. Here is some reading for you, though. And here is some more.
Just as you overvalue the use of finances as a tax on human labor and ideas -- how very Imperialist of you.
Your last sentence makes no sense to me. I "overvalue the use of finances as a tax"? Sorry, that's gibberish. But you seem to dislike Imperialism, so I'll defend it a little.
Capitalism (Imperialism? Nyah, its globalisation now) survives and prospers. The most efficient way to organize millions and billions of people currently known.
Yes. The peanuts spent on it is what the defense needed -- much like the highways system, as originally envisioned. Modern Internet is built by private enterprises.
Every city, every state voted as a community to build roads.
... with the federal government money... Every lawmaker adds this pork to legislation they sponsor and to their campaign promises: "I will fight in Washington for more money for our roads!"
I'm not talking about user-friendly. I'm talking about energy-efficient.
Do you realize, how much energy is spent on road building and maintaining? On detours? On bridges and tunnels? A trip from Brooklyn to midtown Manhattan can take from 25 minutes at night to 65 minutes during a day (without major traffic jams). Flying directly across the river would take 10-15 minutes. With today's 'copters running through 20-30 gallons per hour, that's 5-7 gallons -- more than a car trip itself, but less than the car trip, plus the road building. Not to mention the time saved.
The link, I gave above, shows the private R&D of just one little company, which in 1964 already had a decent home-made machine. If the market was not killed by the government-driven investment into cars and roads (complete with bailing out the struggling car-makers), we'd have my dream device long ago...
A helicopter would need the engine running to stay in the air. [...] any engine failure would be a life or death situation.
Not necessarily, actually. Even in todays helicopters engine failure does not always lead to "hard landing". We will have the personal flying apparata some day, and people flying them will wonder, how we ever drove on the ground -- with all the cost of the roadways, and the high fatalities of car-to-car and car-to-pedestrian collisions.
I'm not sure, how exactly the safety problems will be addressed in the future, but I can foresee the emergency chutes for the whole cabin, catapult seats (you can catapult even from a plane on the ground now), and compressed helium to instantly inflate a big balloon and slow down the fall. All of these technologies are too bulky and pricey today, but so were the airbags and radars just a few years ago (radars are now available in cars with the "adaptive cruise control").
We did not splurge on the Internet. Nope... For once, something was done (mostly) right -- with little money and little government intrusion.
There's reasons why most of our shipping is by land, not air; because it's a lot cheaper to load it on a train or truck than a plane.
Shipping is best done by railroad. I was talking about individual transportation. Yes, the modern flying apparata are not too user-friendly. That's my point. If the money, that went and keeps going to building and maintaining roads was, instead, going into R&D of alternative transport, my dream could've been true by now -- safe, affordable, and easy to use personal (or family) flying device.
A helicopter that stops working falls several stories.
A good helicopter would not stop working, just like modern brakes do not stop braking (without countless prior warnings). Yes, there are technical hurdles to overcome, of course, but all these problems are solveable with todays science and technology. However, because the helicopter market is nowhere near the size of the car market, the progress is much slower there. Compare the cars of today with the cars of the seventies. Now, compare the helicopters...
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The FBI database contains thousands of entries and is, of course, on-line (not on the Internet, but a terminal was, evidently, available to LAPD). The LAPD's database is (or should be) online too. There can only be so many different software packages for fingerprint maintainance and it is certainly within the LAPD's and/or FBI's resources to order converting "plugin" from their vendor if neccessary.
Once that is done, the software will be able to automatically check LAPD's entire archive for high-probability matches within hours. All new entries to the police department's database should also be checked immediately.
Creating such system requires one person within LAPD to have a combination of real CS degree, certain non-conformity with "established procedures" and above average persuasion power... Sadly, I doubt a government agency is capable of atracting a single such person.
How is this for an "excuse"? I do use various "+token" strings, but the basic address still works as it did in 8 years ago...
Canadians, on the other hand, do notice their ice receding and are worried about having to patrol their northern shores, which used to be unpassable just a decade ago...
So, it looks to the ignorant me, that exactly the opposite is happening -- the cold places are getting warmer, while the warm ones stay about the same or get a little colder. At least -- some of them...
Search for @aldan.algebra.com to find, what I found annoying enough to make a proper bug report.
Why are you so conservative? There are dinosaur remains in Antarctica -- the Earth used to be much hotter...
I don't think, I would mind it getting warmer -- it is not going to happen overnight anyway -- the humans will adjust.
As for the subject at hand, I'll remain sceptical until Ice Age is adequately explained...
There was no humanity back then, but if there was, part of it would've blamed the phenomenon on the other part...
They need brainpower to automate doing it -- once and for all. Many organizations lack that, prefering to "work harder, not smarter" -- especially, government offices...
Sadly, the version, released with KDE-3.3, continues the poor tradition of features over bug-fixes. I understand, that adding features is usually more fun, than fixing bugs -- especially, someone else's, and a volunteer project will always be skewed towards the former, but other projects (inside KDE even) manage to impose discipline somehow...
An entirely meaningless statement. Yes, all government's money is people's money. So what?
I'm deeply hurt now, because my sense of entitlement promised me more, not less.
I'm not sympathetic towards the South Koreans complaining about computer crimes -- thanks to the vast number of spam-relays in the country...
Of the 5366 IP-addresses currently blacklisted by SKeM on my server, plenty (362 as I press "Submit", but still counting) are from South Korea. About 10 are from Chung-Ang University in Seoul (165.194/16), for example.
Not that their private sector is any better.
Mind you, these are not the IPs, that were once hijacked long ago -- SKeM automatically removes stale entries after two weeks -- these really are very recent spam sources.
There is nothing now, and nothing ever was. Witness the detention of Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
We have the checks and balances, which help us recover our posture after shocks. But while regaining the steady, we will be rocking into different directions -- like all systems and structures.
And once you can store the data on the device, being able to organize and access it in a particular way -- so that a particular programming technique works -- is only of marginal importance.
(I'd use fetch, but that's unimportant.)
It is your CPU and bandwidth against the spammer's. A single machine would not do. You need thousands of Slashdot visitors to click on the link at (almost) the same time. For that, the proper link has to be on the front page...
Register may have some silly users, but all visitors of this site are, of course, cool and don't use IE, do they?
Behind every bot is a human (or an organization). The bots play with real money, so casino will get its piece.
There could be a danger for casinos on becoming dependent on a few big-players instead of many smaller ones, but so far the existence of star human players did not diminish the casinos' market too much. Why would a star bot be (substantially) more dangerous than a star human player?
For accessing their software over the Internet with only a web-browser... A very nifty little device by RSA, I might add.
That's how I feel too, but Mr. Badnarik himself advised us against voting for the lesser evil...
Care to offer a link to the actual text? Not to some trade-union "interpretation", though...
I did not burn it -- I spent it. As in "exchanged for goods or services".
Exactly, what we have here ourselves... There is just no room for you in this world, is there. May I suggest a nice lamp-post with a view?
Khm, US or Multinational?
Nice trolls, anyway. Thanks for playing.
I liked the first book more than the second...
Aren't the alternatives to BIG MEDIA outlawed by the Bush Administration, with the Ministry of Truth being formed as we speak from the Faux News executives?
They don't need to be. All, WTO requires, is for there to be no laws preventing such sales.
As long as it leaves my pocket anyway, why do I care, where it goes?
Yada-yada... Look up the definition.
I am not organizing anyone.
Ooops... Your rage is taking the better of you -- gotta cut down on breaking windows. "ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET"? Phillippines? Germany? Japan? South Korea? Taiwan? These are direct "recipients" of democracy from us. There are countless others, who were helped less directly (like the former Soviet block -- almost entirely).
What's evil? Selling an idea? Buying an idea? What's your problem?
I don't see, how "the current market" is stealing anything from anyone. Lenin-esque or not. May be, the little piece of the sky right above you fell down, but I don't see it.
You are changing the subject and I will not bite. Here is some reading for you, though. And here is some more.
Your last sentence makes no sense to me. I "overvalue the use of finances as a tax"? Sorry, that's gibberish. But you seem to dislike Imperialism, so I'll defend it a little.
Capitalism (Imperialism? Nyah, its globalisation now) survives and prospers. The most efficient way to organize millions and billions of people currently known.
Yes. The peanuts spent on it is what the defense needed -- much like the highways system, as originally envisioned. Modern Internet is built by private enterprises.
... with the federal government money... Every lawmaker adds this pork to legislation they sponsor and to their campaign promises: "I will fight in Washington for more money for our roads!"
Do you realize, how much energy is spent on road building and maintaining? On detours? On bridges and tunnels? A trip from Brooklyn to midtown Manhattan can take from 25 minutes at night to 65 minutes during a day (without major traffic jams). Flying directly across the river would take 10-15 minutes. With today's 'copters running through 20-30 gallons per hour, that's 5-7 gallons -- more than a car trip itself, but less than the car trip, plus the road building. Not to mention the time saved.
The link, I gave above, shows the private R&D of just one little company, which in 1964 already had a decent home-made machine. If the market was not killed by the government-driven investment into cars and roads (complete with bailing out the struggling car-makers), we'd have my dream device long ago...
Not necessarily, actually. Even in todays helicopters engine failure does not always lead to "hard landing". We will have the personal flying apparata some day, and people flying them will wonder, how we ever drove on the ground -- with all the cost of the roadways, and the high fatalities of car-to-car and car-to-pedestrian collisions.
I'm not sure, how exactly the safety problems will be addressed in the future, but I can foresee the emergency chutes for the whole cabin, catapult seats (you can catapult even from a plane on the ground now), and compressed helium to instantly inflate a big balloon and slow down the fall. All of these technologies are too bulky and pricey today, but so were the airbags and radars just a few years ago (radars are now available in cars with the "adaptive cruise control").
We did not splurge on the Internet. Nope... For once, something was done (mostly) right -- with little money and little government intrusion.
Shipping is best done by railroad. I was talking about individual transportation. Yes, the modern flying apparata are not too user-friendly. That's my point. If the money, that went and keeps going to building and maintaining roads was, instead, going into R&D of alternative transport, my dream could've been true by now -- safe, affordable, and easy to use personal (or family) flying device.
A good helicopter would not stop working, just like modern brakes do not stop braking (without countless prior warnings). Yes, there are technical hurdles to overcome, of course, but all these problems are solveable with todays science and technology. However, because the helicopter market is nowhere near the size of the car market, the progress is much slower there. Compare the cars of today with the cars of the seventies. Now, compare the helicopters...