Unfortunately this is not supported in the US - all premium rate numbers are in the 900 area code, and I expect telemarketers generally avoid calling these.
The EU practice of allowing these on any calling block would allow this in the US. I'm not sure the additional annoyance would be worth it.
Your enemies are going to have brilliant people working for them.
If you restrict your workforce to people who are merely smart you are going to lose. You might even lose if the enemy has merely smart people.
Then there is the Jobs thing. A people hire A people. B people hire C people. So if you have merely smart people they are going to be hiring average people.
Then you are really fucked. We all know how dumb an average person is.
Well, there is another factor here. Sharing nutter ideas.
So this is not just a bunch of people gathering in one place. It's a bunch of gullible people gathering in one place and sharing nutter ideas like they are being ruled by a magic sky daddy and that vaccines are the cause of autism.
It seems to me that self-driving cars would be a big deal for elderly people who are don't want to give up driving despite really being incapable of driving safely.
Are people on Slashdot really this ignorant of US Law?
The President is Commander In Chief. He has broad powers including the ability to deploy troops where he pleases.
There are some limits laid out in the War Powers Resolution. Which no President accepts as Constitutional. These limits do not require a vote in Congress before deployment.
The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30 day withdrawal period, without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war.
So he's got 48 hours to notify, and 90 days before he supposedly needs authorization.
All US Presidents since 1973 have stated they consider this unconstitutional. The following have ignored it:
Reagan Clinton W Obama
There is apparently no way for Congress to enforce it except impeachment.
Sorry, but if you how up for an airplane ride with and name that could be Middle Eastern and the security gear at the airport detects explosives residue I would think that being detained for questioning would be reasonable.
So he missed his flight. It's not the worst thing that can happen, by a long shot.
Since in the grand scheme of things real terrorist events are quite rare I'd think that the percentage of these warnings that are false positives must be very high.
It doesn't matter if you trust the maker of the machine or not. The maker can't do anything about the fact that nitroglycerine is both a widely used medication and a component of many explosives.
The only thing you can do in a case like this is to have a careful process for handling the test result. It's very tricky, especially if the people you have to implement the process are not very bright. It just isn't going to work all that well.
In this case I feel badly for Mr. Mukerjee. But is it a dire warning of America becoming a police state? I just don't see it IN THIS CASE. I'm much more upset about journalists and people like Moxie Marlinspike being singled out for their beliefs when travelling than this person getting handled in an insensitive manner because of his name, appearance and a false positive from a chemical sniffer.
Is it a problem with the TSA? Yes, but we have known that the airport security people we have can be overzealous and insensitive. That's a bit different from the worries about a general erosion of civil liberties and we should not conflate the two. Even if it does make a story that will outrage many.
If somebody tested positive for explosives residue going through airport security I'd be suspicious too.
The problem here is the level of expertise of the people responding to this situation. It's like these people are DMV rejects. They do not have the training or even basic knowledge needed to deal with this situation AT ALL.
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Mythbusters didn't use actual JATO units, and I wouldn't really consider running off the end of a ramp and pancaking 'flying'.
Now we are going to have a whole bunch of cults thinking the Garden of Eden is on Mars.
I didn't need that.
Unfortunately this is not supported in the US - all premium rate numbers are in the 900 area code, and I expect telemarketers generally avoid calling these.
The EU practice of allowing these on any calling block would allow this in the US. I'm not sure the additional annoyance would be worth it.
Bzzzzrrrtt. The JATO rocket car is an urban legend.
Your enemies are going to have brilliant people working for them.
If you restrict your workforce to people who are merely smart you are going to lose. You might even lose if the enemy has merely smart people.
Then there is the Jobs thing. A people hire A people. B people hire C people. So if you have merely smart people they are going to be hiring average people.
Then you are really fucked. We all know how dumb an average person is.
Transcendental experience?
Do you hallucinate much?
Cross out fusion generator and add in any of many alternatives.
My favorite would be flying car.
Well, there is another factor here. Sharing nutter ideas.
So this is not just a bunch of people gathering in one place. It's a bunch of gullible people gathering in one place and sharing nutter ideas like they are being ruled by a magic sky daddy and that vaccines are the cause of autism.
It seems to me that self-driving cars would be a big deal for elderly people who are don't want to give up driving despite really being incapable of driving safely.
Are people on Slashdot really this ignorant of US Law?
The President is Commander In Chief. He has broad powers including the ability to deploy troops where he pleases.
There are some limits laid out in the War Powers Resolution. Which no President accepts as Constitutional. These limits do not require a vote in Congress before deployment.
Umm both Reagan and W violated the War Powers Act.
It was passed in the first place because of Nixon, whose veto was overridden by Congress.
The idea this is a Democrat thing is poppycock.
Nope.
The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30 day withdrawal period, without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war.
So he's got 48 hours to notify, and 90 days before he supposedly needs authorization.
All US Presidents since 1973 have stated they consider this unconstitutional. The following have ignored it:
Reagan
Clinton
W
Obama
There is apparently no way for Congress to enforce it except impeachment.
Only in the US does Obama get called leftist. He is either centrist or moderate rightist.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-conservative-obama/
Compare his policies to Ronald Reagan and you will find very little difference. For example both ran huge deficits in order to stimulate job growth.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/11/20/channeling-the-gipper.html
The fact of the matter is that the right wing of American politics has become really extreme over the past 10 years.
Taking pictures in a SCIF?
Ruh-Roh.
Weed?
I don't think that's what this guy is taking.
Logging everything like you describe is very expensive plus has it's own security problems.
The thing to do is to supervise these clowns so it doesn't happen in the first place.
Administrative action is probably revocation of security clearance. That's worse than firing for these guys because it's end of career.
There is an amazing documentary of this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264578/
Who knew what can be endured?
Sorry, but if you how up for an airplane ride with and name that could be Middle Eastern and the security gear at the airport detects explosives residue I would think that being detained for questioning would be reasonable.
So he missed his flight. It's not the worst thing that can happen, by a long shot.
I think the outrage here is misplaced.
Nonsense. Different sects within their own belief system blow each other up all the time.
Blowing things up IS WHAT THEY DO. They are trained from birth that blowing something up and taking yourself with it is the way to heaven.
All you have to do is have a SLIGHTLY different system of beliefs and they will blow you up.
What places have the MOST bombings? Places like India and Pakistan.
Look at this item - just came out on BBC 5 minutes ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23811328
Lebanon, two muslim groups exchanging bombings.
Explosives residue maybe?
Since in the grand scheme of things real terrorist events are quite rare I'd think that the percentage of these warnings that are false positives must be very high.
It doesn't matter if you trust the maker of the machine or not. The maker can't do anything about the fact that nitroglycerine is both a widely used medication and a component of many explosives.
The only thing you can do in a case like this is to have a careful process for handling the test result. It's very tricky, especially if the people you have to implement the process are not very bright. It just isn't going to work all that well.
In this case I feel badly for Mr. Mukerjee. But is it a dire warning of America becoming a police state? I just don't see it IN THIS CASE. I'm much more upset about journalists and people like Moxie Marlinspike being singled out for their beliefs when travelling than this person getting handled in an insensitive manner because of his name, appearance and a false positive from a chemical sniffer.
Is it a problem with the TSA? Yes, but we have known that the airport security people we have can be overzealous and insensitive. That's a bit different from the worries about a general erosion of civil liberties and we should not conflate the two. Even if it does make a story that will outrage many.
If somebody tested positive for explosives residue going through airport security I'd be suspicious too.
The problem here is the level of expertise of the people responding to this situation. It's like these people are DMV rejects. They do not have the training or even basic knowledge needed to deal with this situation AT ALL.
It's not that hard to do if you just buy it when the price is low.
Too many individual investors wait until the market is near all time highs before buying.
No. it's not top down thinking. It's an example of an alternative technology that might be work.
A posting on slashdot is hardly a command decision.
Now perhaps if Congress passed a law stating something like this THEN your criticism would be appropriate.