We is society. And we don't have to guess what venues have the largest number of potential terrorist targets. You target your spending at the weakest points where the largest number of targets can be killed. Things like large office buildings, the public transportation system, sports venues, restaurants. The israelis have been working on this stuff for years against a seriously devoted enemy with a ground access border. Their problem is easily ten times as difficult as ours, and they have had great success in reducing the problem, using techniques just like this.
Professional development for kids in china pretty much means learning to glue shoes faster. I'm sure at the end of their life they'll look back with regret and say: I wish I'd glued more shoes instead of playing all those games!
Which is a short way to say: some times there's nothing better than games available to you in life.
I'm surprised the mushrooms didn't work for you, I suspect maybe you didn't get the right kind. Also, the coins from the ceiling strategy is likely to work eventually, as a lot of people have hidden money in their ceilings or attics over the years. You can definitely get into the sewer system through your drains, if you have a wide enough drain. Try the drain in a pool. Sorry about your turtle, it worked for me!
Re:You don't have the right to not be offended
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Jack Thompson vs Amazon?
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I think you misunderstand his motives and underestimate his strategy. He loves the attention. And by reacting with a caustic war of words convinces the media and slashdot to post more and more links to his content, drawing ever more attention to his cause.
I don't understand. I've never had a problem drying cats in the microwave.
My favorite recipe for dried cat: 1 40 oz cat. 1/2 oz orange peel. 1/4 cup mustard.
Shave the cat if not purchased pre-shaved or hairless. Wash cat in disenfectant soap and warm water (warning, many cats do not like water and may become agitated).
Coat cat liberally in mustard, then garnish with orange peel. Dry on low power in microwave for about 50 minutes at 300 watt power (check your microwave manual, microwave power will vary). Dry for additional 10 minutes if cat is still moist or squishy to the touch.
A lot of sites try to be slashdot and come and go. Anyone remember when kuroshin people were in here years back trying to convince everyone that kuroshin was going to be the end of slashdot? Slashdot persists for a reason.
Are you sure they're infinite? You can only add so much random material before the book will fall outside the set of books 'on' group theory. Sure, it's a large set of books, but infinite? I don't think so.
In fairness to slashdot, I've only seen duplicate articles on the frontpage at the same time maybe 5 times at most. Usually the dupes are at least a day apart.
Actually, I see no reason why we shouldn't apply this to any public forum we feel is a target, and in which it can be more effective than existing security precautions. Certainly a large restaurant which wanted to make its patrons feel safer should legally be allowed to use such a system, and be allowed to refuse service to someone who won't comply. And for large sports venues, probably one of the better targets for terror in this country, I think this would be quite economical, perhaps even more so than on planes. Buses unfortunately probably can't afford to carry such a system around with them, otherwise it would be a good idea there as well. Certainly long haul bus services out of terminals could do this if they wanted to, but that's probably not as much of a terror target.
2250 people per week gives a team of 5 screeners over 5 minutes to search through each of those people's bags. As the false positive rate gets lower that improves rapidly. The 1 in 10 false positive rate may be a bit high, but I was exaggerating for effect: just to show that even at such a ridiculously high rate, the system could still be useful. Yes, human nature will be to profile and act differently with the 'less suspicious' individuals. That's where specific job requirements come in handy, followed up with firing people who don't do the searches and post interviews properly. Now granted, the government firing people is pretty much out of the question, so getting the false positive rate below one in ten will be necessary in reality to keep the system effective.
No, your comment doesn't address mine at all. Your claim is that it's not ok to have false positives, because it will have a financial or legal impact on legally acting citizens. Mine is that it's ok to have high false positives specifically because it has no such impact. You and your baggage are already subject to search. If this machine helps target the false positive searches even slightly better than the current system (random or profiling) then that is an improvement.
I'm slightly fuzzy, how does the free market and extra guns on the plane stop the explosives in the bag going off? Are you anticipating that the very same terrorists who can work their way around the lie detector won't figure out not to make their bombs rely on manual detonation once they get them on the plane?
The price difference is exorbitant. If you pay for a private flight, you'll experience very little tyranny. But it does cost about 10 to 100 times the usual ticket price.
I hardly care how high the false positive rate is, as long as the false negative rate is sufficiently low.
Let them falsely pull out 10 people on a hundred person flight for an extensive search. Great. Just as long as they don't miss the one guy on one flight in ten thousand with the bomb in his backpack.
Yeah I found that interesting too. When I did work where portability was a serious concern we always used typedefs. We had a standard header that would define types such as s16, u32, s8
etc. The first job of porting was to port that header and guarantee that the data types on the target platform were at least as many bits as advertised, and matched the (s)igned or (u)nsigned property.
Basically you were forbidden to use any native types in the remainder of the app. That system worked pretty well, we were able to do ports with trivial effort to 4 different architectures.
Describing the D2 item drops as coming from a preset list is somewhat disingenous or inaccurate. The non-unique items have randomly generated properties. Technically you could make a list of them, but since the random seed is 64 bit, that would be one hell of a list.
Diablo II also provides you with 7 character classes, with at least 3 major variants for each, giving you at least 21 interesting paths to play (realistically the number is much higher, as various cross combinations come into play). Playing each to level 90 will eat up plenty of your time.
Having worked over 3000h on both Diablo II and a MUD, I will vote for Diablo II having the better addictive design, particularly in the context of delivering that addiction to a large number of players.
The laws of nature are what defines what happens. We may not have them all correctly understood yet, but that is the whole point of science. The fatima event, if it happened, occurred within nature, therefore it obeyed natural law. Does it require science to adopt a new understanding of natural law? Perhaps.
As to the Fatima event specifically, I could find very little documentation that anything happened, and about an equal amount of counter documentation that nothing happened. Lacking any video documentation of the event, I'm personally mistrustful of the witnesses. You'll find an equal number of bigfoot non believers who have seen bigfoot.
They weren't unnatural. Either they happened in the universe (natural) or they didn't. So either they actually happened and were natural, or they didn't actually happen.
Perhaps it is more of an indicator for parents. Watch them start brushing, then check them again later for pink mouth to make sure they did a good job.
Re:Criminal charges against Microsoft too.
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Bad Day To Be Sony
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Only if the copyright holder objects. Do you expect sony to object given the publicity in this case?
There will be no DMCA challenge of the titans based on this incident, unfortunately.
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We is society. And we don't have to guess what venues have the largest number of potential terrorist targets. You target your spending at the weakest points where the largest number of targets can be killed. Things like large office buildings, the public transportation system, sports venues, restaurants. The israelis have been working on this stuff for years against a seriously devoted enemy with a ground access border. Their problem is easily ten times as difficult as ours, and they have had great success in reducing the problem, using techniques just like this.
I assume you mean kitten huffing?
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Kitten_Huffing
Professional development for kids in china pretty much means learning to glue shoes faster. I'm sure at the end of their life they'll look back with regret and say: I wish I'd glued more shoes instead of playing all those games!
Which is a short way to say: some times there's nothing better than games available to you in life.
I'm surprised the mushrooms didn't work for you, I suspect maybe you didn't get the right kind.
Also, the coins from the ceiling strategy is likely to work eventually, as a lot of people have hidden money in their ceilings or attics over the years.
You can definitely get into the sewer system through your drains, if you have a wide enough drain. Try the drain in a pool.
Sorry about your turtle, it worked for me!
I think you misunderstand his motives and underestimate his strategy. He loves the attention. And by reacting with a caustic war of words convinces the media and slashdot to post more and more links to his content, drawing ever more attention to his cause.
I don't understand. I've never had a problem drying cats in the microwave.
My favorite recipe for dried cat:
1 40 oz cat.
1/2 oz orange peel.
1/4 cup mustard.
Shave the cat if not purchased pre-shaved or hairless. Wash cat in disenfectant soap and warm water (warning, many cats do not like water and may become agitated).
Coat cat liberally in mustard, then garnish with orange peel. Dry on low power in microwave for about 50 minutes at 300 watt power (check your microwave manual, microwave power will vary). Dry for additional 10 minutes if cat is still moist or squishy to the touch.
Dice and serve in a bowl or party tray.
A lot of sites try to be slashdot and come and go. Anyone remember when kuroshin people were in here years back trying to convince everyone that kuroshin was going to be the end of slashdot? Slashdot persists for a reason.
Are you sure they're infinite? You can only add so much random material before the book will fall outside the set of books 'on' group theory. Sure, it's a large set of books, but infinite? I don't think so.
In fairness to slashdot, I've only seen duplicate articles on the frontpage at the same time maybe 5 times at most. Usually the dupes are at least a day apart.
Buy them from target or walmart, I see them on sale there for $20 all the time.
And for a low low price of $2000 per week no less. Inquire now!
If you haven't been to the tenderloin district lately, it's still the plague years.
Actually, I see no reason why we shouldn't apply this to any public forum we feel is a target, and in which it can be more effective than existing security precautions. Certainly a large restaurant which wanted to make its patrons feel safer should legally be allowed to use such a system, and be allowed to refuse service to someone who won't comply. And for large sports venues, probably one of the better targets for terror in this country, I think this would be quite economical, perhaps even more so than on planes. Buses unfortunately probably can't afford to carry such a system around with them, otherwise it would be a good idea there as well. Certainly long haul bus services out of terminals could do this if they wanted to, but that's probably not as much of a terror target.
2250 people per week gives a team of 5 screeners over 5 minutes to search through each of those people's bags. As the false positive rate gets lower that improves rapidly. The 1 in 10 false positive rate may be a bit high, but I was exaggerating for effect: just to show that even at such a ridiculously high rate, the system could still be useful. Yes, human nature will be to profile and act differently with the 'less suspicious' individuals. That's where specific job requirements come in handy, followed up with firing people who don't do the searches and post interviews properly. Now granted, the government firing people is pretty much out of the question, so getting the false positive rate below one in ten will be necessary in reality to keep the system effective.
No, your comment doesn't address mine at all. Your claim is that it's not ok to have false positives, because it will have a financial or legal impact on legally acting citizens. Mine is that it's ok to have high false positives specifically because it has no such impact. You and your baggage are already subject to search. If this machine helps target the false positive searches even slightly better than the current system (random or profiling) then that is an improvement.
I'm slightly fuzzy, how does the free market and extra guns on the plane stop the explosives in the bag going off? Are you anticipating that the very same terrorists who can work their way around the lie detector won't figure out not to make their bombs rely on manual detonation once they get them on the plane?
The price difference is exorbitant. If you pay for a private flight, you'll experience very little tyranny. But it does cost about 10 to 100 times the usual ticket price.
I hardly care how high the false positive rate is, as long as the false negative rate is sufficiently low.
Let them falsely pull out 10 people on a hundred person flight for an extensive search. Great. Just as long as they don't miss the one guy on one flight in ten thousand with the bomb in his backpack.
Yeah I found that interesting too. When I did work where portability was a serious concern we always used typedefs. We had a standard header that would define types such as
s16, u32, s8
etc. The first job of porting was to port that header and guarantee that the data types on the target platform were at least as many bits as advertised, and matched the (s)igned or (u)nsigned property.
Basically you were forbidden to use any native types in the remainder of the app. That system worked pretty well, we were able to do ports with trivial effort to 4 different architectures.
Describing the D2 item drops as coming from a preset list is somewhat disingenous or inaccurate. The non-unique items have randomly generated properties. Technically you could make a list of them, but since the random seed is 64 bit, that would be one hell of a list.
Diablo II also provides you with 7 character classes, with at least 3 major variants for each, giving you at least 21 interesting paths to play (realistically the number is much higher, as various cross combinations come into play). Playing each to level 90 will eat up plenty of your time.
Having worked over 3000h on both Diablo II and a MUD, I will vote for Diablo II having the better addictive design, particularly in the context of delivering that addiction to a large number of players.
Well, BG is just frustrated with all the hoops he has to jump through now to read his 5GB of mail each day.
The laws of nature are what defines what happens. We may not have them all correctly understood yet, but that is the whole point of science. The fatima event, if it happened, occurred within nature, therefore it obeyed natural law. Does it require science to adopt a new understanding of natural law? Perhaps.
As to the Fatima event specifically, I could find very little documentation that anything happened, and about an equal amount of counter documentation that nothing happened. Lacking any video documentation of the event, I'm personally mistrustful of the witnesses. You'll find an equal number of bigfoot non believers who have seen bigfoot.
They weren't unnatural. Either they happened in the universe (natural) or they didn't. So either they actually happened and were natural, or they didn't actually happen.
My bet is on didn't happen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Fatima
Perhaps it is more of an indicator for parents. Watch them start brushing, then check them again later for pink mouth to make sure they did a good job.
Only if the copyright holder objects. Do you expect sony to object given the publicity in this case?
There will be no DMCA challenge of the titans based on this incident, unfortunately.