I have to ask. Is this really such a huge deal for everyone? I don't even notice lens flares. I'll go back and look and think "oh yeah, I guess there was one in that shot." But other than, I mean, there's an entire movie to be watched. Judging its overall quality based on the presence or absence of one minor, irrelevant special effect just baffles me.
Did you know that just like Zynga (the facebook game company), Google uses professional human psychologies when building their services. They don't just track, but they go directly after the science of human behavior.
So does every other company in the world with an advertising department.
Quaint and gentlemanly? Louisiana would like a word with you.
Louisiana had the highest murder rate of any state in 2010 (11.2 murders per 100,000) which marked the 22nd consecutive year (1989–2010) that Louisiana has posted the highest per-capita murder rate of any U.S. state. Louisiana is also the only state with an average per capita murder rate (14.5 per 100,000) at least twice as high as the U.S. average (6.9 per 100,000) during that period according to Bureau of Justice Statistics from FBI Uniform Crime Reports. The Chicago Tribune reports that Louisiana is the most corrupt state in the United States.[75]
The courts at all three levels noted that the case of accidental contamination beyond the farmer's control was not under consideration but rather that Mr. Schmeiser's action of having identified, isolated and saved the Roundup-resistant seed placed the case in a different category. The appellate court also discussed a possible intermediate scenario, in which a farmer is aware of contamination of his crop by genetically modified seed, but tolerates its presence and takes no action to increase its abundance in his crop. The court held that whether such a case would constitute patent infringement remains an open question but that it was a question that did not need to be decided in the Schmeiser case.(Paragraph 57 of the Appeals Court Decision[6])
So, in Canada at least, it's still an open question then. Thanks.
If he gets any cross pollination from other farmers using monsanto seeds, he'll get sued again. And he will lose. Farmers always lose these lawsuits where their fields got cross-pollinated by patented genes.
I frequently hear this claim, and I frequently hear the other side declare that it's bullshit. Neither side actually cites a court case. Does this actually happen, or not?
So they would secretly keep running an unconstitutional database consisting only of names, ages, and faces? If they're secretly running unconstitutional stuff, I think you have more to worry about than a name and picture.
The entire point of the database would be for quick, public-access ID purposes. Misuse would be doctoring the database or starting baseless "papers please" ID checks. Both of those things are based on public acceptance - they wouldn't really work well if its existence were a secret.
You may want to find a better analogy, given that the boiling-frog one is not just wrong but exactly the opposite of what really happens.
Analogies aside, I'm going to reiterate my point that creating a database of information that the government already has is not an expansion of its power.
But it can be made into a "papers please" very easily.
Yeah, and so can photo ID. So can just plain paper, for that matter. If the US were going to turn into "papers, please" it would've done so already. Advances in technology don't mean the Bill of Rights just disappears.
Now, if a court rules that law enforcement CAN start misusing the database, then I'll be protesting right there with you. But until that time I'm not going to condemn the whole system just because the tech could conceivably create a police state.
Any concerns of Big Brother database-tampering to frame you for a crime are equally weighted with the benefits of fewer fake IDs
No they aren't. Our founding principles are that we let some guilty people go free precisely because that's preferable than to possibly imprison innocent people. People using Fake IDs are an acceptable condition of not doing 'Papers please' checks on every law abiding citizen on every street corner.
This isn't a "papers please" check on every law abiding citizen on every street corner, though. This is centralized photo ID. This is "leave your papers at home, please; we've got a copy." Nobody's checking anything when they wouldn't check your driver's license already. The potential for misconduct just...isn't there. You've got the physical documents yourself, so there's redundancy enough to provide a reasonable doubt in court should anyone actually get the bright idea to hack it and tamper. I really don't see the issue.
I was going to say this as well. Names, ages, faces, social #? This is all stuff the government already has. You tell them more on your tax return than this database would have (at least according to TFS; Wired bugs out on my work comp for some reason).
Moreover, I wouldn't believe all the "mission creep" fuss. We've had Photo IDs for how long, now? This is literally the exact same thing. It's just on a centralized database instead of a card in your wallet. Any concerns of Big Brother database-tampering to frame you for a crime are equally weighted with the benefits of fewer fake IDs.
Autodesk...understand the target user to some degree.
An Autodesk support rep called me a pirate last year when I complained that my (paid) license required I have Inventor running before I could start AutoCAD. Sure, they could probably knock up a good competitor to Photoshop, but their license model would be just as bad as Adobe's. So what'd be the point?
Translating "American" as "European" would be a heck of an error. It's more likely that whoever wrote TFS is just dumb. Putin is shaming the Europeans for bending to the whims of the US Department of Commerce. Nothing odd about it.
Is it? Searches for "glass eye" turn up nothing of the sort, and no suggested searches along those lines. "glass eye slang", even "glass eye slang camera" turn up nothing (although urbandictionary has an unsurprisingly nsfw definition). And your link is just a link to a thesaurus. Thanks, I guess?
Basic dynamics of supply and demand would dictate that if there were a domestic labor shortage, wages should have risen. Instead, researchers found, they've been flat, with many Americans holding STEM degrees unable to enter the field and a sharply higher share of foreign workers taking jobs in the information technology industry. (IT jobs make up 59 percent of the STEM workforce, according to the study.)"
Wages will only rise if the labor supply decreases. The labor supply won't decrease if you import foreign workers.
In other words, your car will stop if you run out of gas. The car is still moving, so you must not be out of gas. Please kindly ignore the fact that you're rolling down a mountain.
Dice employees too scared to post their own shill stories now?
If I wanted a shill story I sure as hell wouldn't get Bennett Haselton to write it. Half of Slashdot hates him, and most of the rest refuse to read his walls of text. And here, his main point in a nutshell (once you get through the rambling, which he does at great length) seems to be that Quirky is a Ponzi scheme that sells useless products. His proposed solution to them is "stop being a Ponzi scheme and start selling not-useless products."
Personally, and apparently like most of the other commenters here, I had never heard of Quirky before this. I'm certainly not going to go there now. Thanks, I guess, Mr. Haselton?
I had H1N1 as well. Not a walk in the park by any means - I was bedridden, fevered and delirious, for pretty much an entire week. I also developed a secondary infection, a weak form of pneumonia ("walking pneumonia") that had me hacking for over a month afterwards. A good two-thirds of everyone I worked with went down for a week as well. And these were people in their twenties - not infants or the elderly, like most flus.
I don't know the stats on mortality rate or anything, but IMO an epidemic that knocks out a good fraction of the workforce for a week at a time, regardless of the actual number of deaths, deserves significant media coverage. Not "sky is falling" coverage, but definitely a close look.
Some security experts were surprised by the alleged link to al Qaeda factions in Iran, whose Shiite rulers have a generally hostile attitude toward the Sunni militant movement. Reuters explained:
Iran did host some senior al Qaeda figures under a form of house arrest in the years following the September 11 attacks, but there has been little to no evidence to date of joint attempts to execute violence against the West.
However, a U.S. government source said Iran is home to a little-known network of alleged al Qaeda fixers and "facilitators" based in the Iranian city of Zahedan, very close to Iran's borders with both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The source said the operatives serve as go-betweens, travel agents and financial intermediaries for al Qaeda operatives and cells operating in Pakistan and moving through the area.
They do not operate under the protection of the Iranian government, which periodically launches crackdowns on the al Qaeda elements, though at other times appears to turn a blind eye to them.
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I have to ask. Is this really such a huge deal for everyone? I don't even notice lens flares. I'll go back and look and think "oh yeah, I guess there was one in that shot." But other than, I mean, there's an entire movie to be watched. Judging its overall quality based on the presence or absence of one minor, irrelevant special effect just baffles me.
Did you know that just like Zynga (the facebook game company), Google uses professional human psychologies when building their services. They don't just track, but they go directly after the science of human behavior.
So does every other company in the world with an advertising department.
It's more than just filing and paperwork. If you represent yourself, you cannot testify for your defense (iirc).
Quaint and gentlemanly? Louisiana would like a word with you.
Louisiana had the highest murder rate of any state in 2010 (11.2 murders per 100,000) which marked the 22nd consecutive year (1989–2010) that Louisiana has posted the highest per-capita murder rate of any U.S. state. Louisiana is also the only state with an average per capita murder rate (14.5 per 100,000) at least twice as high as the U.S. average (6.9 per 100,000) during that period according to Bureau of Justice Statistics from FBI Uniform Crime Reports. The Chicago Tribune reports that Louisiana is the most corrupt state in the United States.[75]
The courts at all three levels noted that the case of accidental contamination beyond the farmer's control was not under consideration but rather that Mr. Schmeiser's action of having identified, isolated and saved the Roundup-resistant seed placed the case in a different category. The appellate court also discussed a possible intermediate scenario, in which a farmer is aware of contamination of his crop by genetically modified seed, but tolerates its presence and takes no action to increase its abundance in his crop. The court held that whether such a case would constitute patent infringement remains an open question but that it was a question that did not need to be decided in the Schmeiser case.(Paragraph 57 of the Appeals Court Decision[6])
So, in Canada at least, it's still an open question then. Thanks.
If he gets any cross pollination from other farmers using monsanto seeds, he'll get sued again. And he will lose. Farmers always lose these lawsuits where their fields got cross-pollinated by patented genes.
I frequently hear this claim, and I frequently hear the other side declare that it's bullshit. Neither side actually cites a court case. Does this actually happen, or not?
The entire point of the database would be for quick, public-access ID purposes. Misuse would be doctoring the database or starting baseless "papers please" ID checks. Both of those things are based on public acceptance - they wouldn't really work well if its existence were a secret.
You may want to find a better analogy, given that the boiling-frog one is not just wrong but exactly the opposite of what really happens.
Analogies aside, I'm going to reiterate my point that creating a database of information that the government already has is not an expansion of its power.
Palin.
But it can be made into a "papers please" very easily.
Yeah, and so can photo ID. So can just plain paper, for that matter. If the US were going to turn into "papers, please" it would've done so already. Advances in technology don't mean the Bill of Rights just disappears.
Now, if a court rules that law enforcement CAN start misusing the database, then I'll be protesting right there with you. But until that time I'm not going to condemn the whole system just because the tech could conceivably create a police state.
Any concerns of Big Brother database-tampering to frame you for a crime are equally weighted with the benefits of fewer fake IDs
No they aren't. Our founding principles are that we let some guilty people go free precisely because that's preferable than to possibly imprison innocent people. People using Fake IDs are an acceptable condition of not doing 'Papers please' checks on every law abiding citizen on every street corner.
This isn't a "papers please" check on every law abiding citizen on every street corner, though. This is centralized photo ID. This is "leave your papers at home, please; we've got a copy." Nobody's checking anything when they wouldn't check your driver's license already. The potential for misconduct just...isn't there. You've got the physical documents yourself, so there's redundancy enough to provide a reasonable doubt in court should anyone actually get the bright idea to hack it and tamper. I really don't see the issue.
Moreover, I wouldn't believe all the "mission creep" fuss. We've had Photo IDs for how long, now? This is literally the exact same thing. It's just on a centralized database instead of a card in your wallet. Any concerns of Big Brother database-tampering to frame you for a crime are equally weighted with the benefits of fewer fake IDs.
Autodesk...understand the target user to some degree.
An Autodesk support rep called me a pirate last year when I complained that my (paid) license required I have Inventor running before I could start AutoCAD. Sure, they could probably knock up a good competitor to Photoshop, but their license model would be just as bad as Adobe's. So what'd be the point?
Translating "American" as "European" would be a heck of an error. It's more likely that whoever wrote TFS is just dumb. Putin is shaming the Europeans for bending to the whims of the US Department of Commerce. Nothing odd about it.
Video Poker is very different from the game your friends play. There are no other individuals to play against, only a computer screen.
Who gives a fuck what some luser thinks?
I do, and you should too.
Precisely. If there is any chance at all that my gun will simply refuse to fire when I pull the trigger, I don't want anything to do with it.
Do you remove the safety from your gun as well? After all, a defective safety can mean that your gun will refuse to fire when you pull the trigger.
Is it? Searches for "glass eye" turn up nothing of the sort, and no suggested searches along those lines. "glass eye slang", even "glass eye slang camera" turn up nothing (although urbandictionary has an unsurprisingly nsfw definition). And your link is just a link to a thesaurus. Thanks, I guess?
That just may soften up Americans to the idea of the all-seeing glass eye.
How can a glass eye (blind by definition) be all-seeing? Don't mix metaphors if you don't know what they mean!
Basic dynamics of supply and demand would dictate that if there were a domestic labor shortage, wages should have risen. Instead, researchers found, they've been flat, with many Americans holding STEM degrees unable to enter the field and a sharply higher share of foreign workers taking jobs in the information technology industry. (IT jobs make up 59 percent of the STEM workforce, according to the study.)"
Wages will only rise if the labor supply decreases. The labor supply won't decrease if you import foreign workers.
In other words, your car will stop if you run out of gas. The car is still moving, so you must not be out of gas. Please kindly ignore the fact that you're rolling down a mountain.
Dice employees too scared to post their own shill stories now?
If I wanted a shill story I sure as hell wouldn't get Bennett Haselton to write it. Half of Slashdot hates him, and most of the rest refuse to read his walls of text. And here, his main point in a nutshell (once you get through the rambling, which he does at great length) seems to be that Quirky is a Ponzi scheme that sells useless products. His proposed solution to them is "stop being a Ponzi scheme and start selling not-useless products."
Personally, and apparently like most of the other commenters here, I had never heard of Quirky before this. I'm certainly not going to go there now. Thanks, I guess, Mr. Haselton?
I had H1N1 as well. Not a walk in the park by any means - I was bedridden, fevered and delirious, for pretty much an entire week. I also developed a secondary infection, a weak form of pneumonia ("walking pneumonia") that had me hacking for over a month afterwards. A good two-thirds of everyone I worked with went down for a week as well. And these were people in their twenties - not infants or the elderly, like most flus.
I don't know the stats on mortality rate or anything, but IMO an epidemic that knocks out a good fraction of the workforce for a week at a time, regardless of the actual number of deaths, deserves significant media coverage. Not "sky is falling" coverage, but definitely a close look.
Some security experts were surprised by the alleged link to al Qaeda factions in Iran, whose Shiite rulers have a generally hostile attitude toward the Sunni militant movement. Reuters explained: Iran did host some senior al Qaeda figures under a form of house arrest in the years following the September 11 attacks, but there has been little to no evidence to date of joint attempts to execute violence against the West. However, a U.S. government source said Iran is home to a little-known network of alleged al Qaeda fixers and "facilitators" based in the Iranian city of Zahedan, very close to Iran's borders with both Pakistan and Afghanistan. The source said the operatives serve as go-betweens, travel agents and financial intermediaries for al Qaeda operatives and cells operating in Pakistan and moving through the area. They do not operate under the protection of the Iranian government, which periodically launches crackdowns on the al Qaeda elements, though at other times appears to turn a blind eye to them.
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Police gave little detail about the alleged plotters, but said a tip from the Muslim community had helped their year-long investigation.
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