Maybe they should install these here in Houston. Then we could see just what was going on when the cops feel it was necessary to shoot some unarmed kid they had on the ground in the face. (Or any of the other dozen or so unarmed shootings that never went to trial, or the current pending case where the cop shot some guy in a car claiming the guy pulled a gun on him, said gun having no prints.)
Most police shooting incidents never make it past the stacked grand jury here (where jurists are selected by the judge, rather than by random, and typically consist of white males with military or police backgrouds), so nobody would ever see your survelliance tapes.
As for the undercover cop, I heard that COPS recently perfected this brand new technique that causes certain people's faces to be blurred on TV. It's currently undergoing testing to see if it actually works, but early trials look promising, and it should be available sometime in 2050.
The drug described here (dendritic cells filled with virus) doesn't exactly seem like a good candidate for cheap mass production. You have to isolate these cells somehow, then fill them with dead virus.
Side note: Dendritic cells are not the same as dendrites which are part of nerve cells, which seems to have confused the submitter.
There *could* be a database keyed to some unique ID, with title, composer, copyright holder, release date, length, and other management information.
Even that would be faked. It would make it harder to download stuff, but people would still figure it out faster than you could update the database to reflect that Metal Lica doesn't want Sandmen with 0.12 seconds of silence added to the beginning released in 1933 to be distributed on Kazaa.
that the software can do it is not the whole point.
Of course not, the point is that its nearly impossible for the software to be able to do this. The claim in court under oath that Kazaa is capable of this is flat out perjury, and knowing these people, they probably KNEW it to be a lie.
How would you have it do this? Filename? (PFf yeah right) Hash of the file (change a byte and the file is no longer copyrighted) "Audio fingerprinting" like some companies claim to be able to do? (Best bet, yet I'd bet a small increase in playback speed raising tempo and pitch would fool it easily)
How hard would it be to setup a dynamic firewall solution like this? People would pay 5 to 10 bucks a month extra for it. Even someone like me so I don't have to use a router. I just don't trust a desktop firewall.
Too hard. Too much work. Requires too much intelligence. Even for the money.
Look at the ISPs out there now. Nearly ZERO perform any kind of egress filtering. How much do they pay for the bandwidth they're wasting when compromised computers on their network spew attacks across the internet? I suspect no amount of money would make the people running ISPs get off their asses and set up firewalls.
Actually, it sounds more like an endorsement in the opensource way than in Linux itself. "Look, we'll contribute to the community so that the community will grow a @#%# clue and learn how to write secure systems."
Given the number of errors and mistakes I see every day, there certainly is work out there, the problem is that nobody's interested in hiring people to fix the problems;)
Sure, until ATSC gets replaced by something else using different compression. Then everyone can just buy an upgrade disk to flash the new codec. (Nahh, they'd rather sell a new TV)
Or maybe Sony wants to be able to unify its manufacturing? Build the exact same TV and program the Cell with the appropriate decoders for US, JP, UK, etc. Or more likely, extract that decoder from the TV itself, with it programmable to decode broadcast HDTV, Blu-Ray HDTV, HD-DVD (hedging their bets as a hardware company, of course). A unit that could be dropped into anything and loaded with the appropriate source driver, output driver, and decoder to fit in the middle.
DSP and Custom designs are great for high-power applications, but they're far more expensive to design and deploy than a programmable design with "enough" horsepower.
Hm, you have a point. Maybe they're using the older Remote Control styled cars with a really loooooong cable from the control to the robot?
Would be interesting to make it two that could couple together, one carrying the expensive instrumentation that could then drive away before the other half tries anything that might blow it up...
Aww whats wrong, you can dish out ad hominem attacks but can't take it? If your argument adds up to roughly "neener neener you can't count from 1" or "neener neener you don't have every ballot choice memorized nationwide", then you're just blowing a whole hell of a lot of hot air.
So what is it now, we're only supposed to care about what goes on in our own county? Its ok if Florida falls off into the sea as long as we don't live there? Quite alright if the whole state becomes a monarchy and sells fiefdoms, as long as they still get to vote for the president?
I guess I'm just not supposed to care. I should grease up, grab my ankles and worship the holy dollar like everyone else, democrat and republican alike? Its not like the company I work for does business in Florida and we care about the local tax rates, the local shipping ordinances, etc. Oh wait, we do! Am I supposed to abandon the pride I have in my country and the way we do things because people like you refuse to face the fact that people have been corrupted by their power?
Not once did you have anything to say about the truth of the facts being presented. Remember that facts, when true, are unbiased. The truth is neither democratic or republican, it simply is. I guess since you had nothing intelligent to add besides your observation on how to count (which turned out to be unfounded since it turned out the original poster had pasted that from the court proceedings), I Had Been Trolled.
You sir, are a fucking idiot. And I mean that in the best possible way. Right now, the biggest obstacle to democracy in this election is the combined work of both the Republican "lose the tinfoil hats" Party, and the Democratic "it doesn't matter" Party.
Yeah well, guess what. The President wasn't the only question on those ballots. Volusia county wouldn't have changed the outcome of the presidential election if it had voted 100% Kerry. But what about state elections? County seats? Mayors? Democracy must happen at all levels!
Why don't you get over your obsession with Kerry and Bush, and look at the big picture here? Accept that the truth is that Volusia county for certain has MAJOR human-created voting problems (or are you going to tell me that a bug in the machine made the election officials "forget" to sign the forged results that Volusia has been giving out as real? BBV pulled the real signed results out of the trash. Or are you going to tell me that BBV has a forgery, that they successfully forged the signatures of ALL of the election officials and the real document was accidentally signed in invisible ink?) and other counties may have had problems either human-made or machine-made.
You assume that we'll be using that kind of return capsule to return the stuff.
There are many other ways it could come home. For instance, a reactor could be established on the moon itself, powering equipment to build large rockets to ship the stuff home. Or rather than trying to get metals smelted from moonrock, parts of such a rocket could be shipped to the moon over the course of the year, at the end of which, the rocket brings home the next year's supply. Or we could simply say "screw Earth" and move, and not ship the stuff anywhere.
Yet another alternative would be to redesign current rockets to not discard spent stages or fuel tanks, and design them to survive re-entry with those tanks intact and full.
So there are ways to get the stuff home, that may or may not be solved by the time we have efficient H3 reactors.
Oh right, because citizens who park in legal parking spots and expect not to be ticketed are so perfect. Man, the nerve of them to expect the police to know how to do their jobs, and to do them correctly.
It's easy to get charges dropped with zero money and about an hour or two of your time
Just because your time is worthless doesn't mean we should have to waste our time when we're right in the first place.
I guess law abiding citizens who expect not to be harassed are yet another group of tin-foil hatters who think the government is "out to get them" or "out of control" just because they have to take some time out of their day to clean up after the mess the government made.
If the package maintainer designed the package to be relocatable, then its pretty easy, assuming the program itself is relocatable, and almost NONE are.
When the package was built, at some point it probably gave a --prefix option to configure (or let it use the default) and from that point on, the directories became hardcoded in the executable. The configfile is at "/somepath/foo.conf". The logs are at "/somepath/logs/" and so on.
If you don't like where the package manager decided it should go, grab a source package and edit the compile script to make it compile with the paths you want, then rebuild the package. Gets you all the flexibility of building it yourself plus package management.
Its easy to pull out the "ooh look, we're a big country" card and play it, but it completely ignores the reality of the situation. In Tokyo, you can get 100Mbps to your apartment for about as much as I pay for 1.5M/256K DSL. Is anyone even offering 100Mbps for $150/mo in New York, NY? 10Mbps?
So yeah, our coverage is shitty because of our rural areas (which is really a lie too, another post mentioned that someplace in Iowa formed a co-op and brought broadband to their homes in the middle of nowhere.) but the service provided at any given cost is shitty across the country too, and your "too big" card has no play here.
As long as companies and government worship the holy dollar its not going to get fixed, and companies will continue to petition state governments to hassle co-op developments, even in areas their sorry brand of broadband will never reach.
The amusing part is the difference between their AMD option and the Intel option. AMD Opteron*2 gets you 2 16x and 3 64 bit PCI slots, 4x sata, 2x gige, 8 dimms. Intel Xeon*2 gets you 2 16x and 3 32 bit PCI slots, 2x sata, 4 dimms and lots of USB and a firewire port.
Is it just me, or are we reaching some kind of upper limit on features? It appears you just can't get it all on one motherboard anymore.
Well, while you're mistrusting things, take a look at Volusia county's report on BlackBoxVoting. Seems that scoring negative votes for Gore last time wasn't enough for them, so this time they try to provide faked unsigned voter rolls and polling records that don't match the signed ones that BBV pulled out of the trash. Oops!
So tell you what, it could mean that the Democrats cheated the last two elections, or it could mean that the rest of the counties got bold from Volusia "it was just a fluke and its counted correctly now" County getting away with it last time without jail time.
Or, an alternate version: the Democrats conceded even though Bush stole the election so that Hillary (and Bill) could run in 2008.
Hillary could have run now. It's not like nobody ever dropped out of their current office to accept the presidency. She probably would have lost too.
The journalists all said they'd kill for a juicy election fraud story, but there was none to be found...not even one that might exist but have no "proof".
After twice calling elections wrong and getting letters from apparently reliable sources that turn out to be bogus, they're not going to jump on anything election related without proof written in stone and signed by God Himself.
Personally I believe that Bush did in fact win. But that does NOT explain away inconsistencies. Republicans are happy to claim that the Catholic Hispanics in Florida voted for them on abortion issues as if the Hispanics found religion just this summer and suddenly decided abortion was important. District-by-district poll/registration vs. count "statistical discrepancies" ONLY in paperless districts.
It does not explain away the Guilty-as-Sin behavior of the County of Volusia (nor the signed polling tapes that reflected different answers than the unsigned copy they were providing others). Hey, neat, thats the same county that gave Gore -16022 votes in 2000. What are the chances?
In a "paper trail" situation, the receipt is the ballot! The only purpose of the machine is to give the people who can't punch a hole properly a chance to have their vote count, and maybe you can plug all the machines in at the end and get a quick count, but in the end if something smells fishy, you pull those paper ballots out.
If the machine recorded a vote for A and printed out a vote for B, then this would be caught either when A wins by an unexpected landslide, or by chance by random sampling.
If you're able to find work with someone who's willing to sponsor your security clearance process
And theres the BIG IF. I found a lot of jobs where the HR would have been happy to have me, but they needed someone who could get to work right away and not sit around for 6 months pushing unimportant papers around.
Since you can't get a clearance by yourself (why not?), you're pretty much at the mercy of the BIG IF. And trust me, if anyone shows up with the needed clearance, unless you're super wonder dog AND the other guy's brain turned to jelly in a freak accident, you're not getting the job.
Have you considered that the companies lie and get away with it?
The general practice is to lay off, say, "Senior Developer III" who made $80k/yr, and got the job by having 8 years experience with C. Then you close the position. You list a new position in your paper: "Junior Tech I", 8 years experience with C required, starting salary $35k. No takers? "See," you say to the Labor Dept. "We need immigrants to fill this job." So the Labor people look to see what you're paying other "Junior Tech I" people, and you don't have any others, you just made the position. So they look on their little charts to see how much they should make. "Hm, Tech, thats $50k starting. Junior -$10K. Entry Level I position, -$5K sounds about right".
And this is how the company gets the Senior Developer III for $35K.
If you don't believe it, see any of the other responses in this thread with cites for how Intel abuses it across the board, as well as other companies that have been caught abusing it.
Once again: H1-B workers, by law can't be paid less than a US worker in a similar job: the wage level is certified, and if neccesary raised, by the local state department of labor.
It's not just pay, silly.
Lets say your productivity is starting to slump and you might not make your 4Q projection. If you tried to pull an EA and force your American employees to work days and nights for a week, most of them would walk away from you because they're not making video games.
But the alternative for an H1B is what, to go back home?
It'd be interesting to compare non-cash benefits for H1B employees and their US counterparts as well. Do they get as much insurance? Vacation time? (Do they take the vacation time they're given?) Stock options, for the people who still believe such things have value?
So I really don't think that online searching is "doomed".
Its not really "doomed", but last I heard, the odds were stacked against you. At the end of the "boom" times, most Monster job ads supposedly got around 100 resumes each.
Perhaps knowing what that number is now is of greater interest to everyone than "I joined the army" or "You suck if you don't have a job".
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Maybe they should install these here in Houston. Then we could see just what was going on when the cops feel it was necessary to shoot some unarmed kid they had on the ground in the face. (Or any of the other dozen or so unarmed shootings that never went to trial, or the current pending case where the cop shot some guy in a car claiming the guy pulled a gun on him, said gun having no prints.)
Most police shooting incidents never make it past the stacked grand jury here (where jurists are selected by the judge, rather than by random, and typically consist of white males with military or police backgrouds), so nobody would ever see your survelliance tapes.
As for the undercover cop, I heard that COPS recently perfected this brand new technique that causes certain people's faces to be blurred on TV. It's currently undergoing testing to see if it actually works, but early trials look promising, and it should be available sometime in 2050.
The drug described here (dendritic cells filled with virus) doesn't exactly seem like a good candidate for cheap mass production. You have to isolate these cells somehow, then fill them with dead virus.
Side note: Dendritic cells are not the same as dendrites which are part of nerve cells, which seems to have confused the submitter.
There *could* be a database keyed to some unique ID, with title, composer, copyright holder, release date, length, and other management information.
Even that would be faked. It would make it harder to download stuff, but people would still figure it out faster than you could update the database to reflect that Metal Lica doesn't want Sandmen with 0.12 seconds of silence added to the beginning released in 1933 to be distributed on Kazaa.
that the software can do it is not the whole point.
Of course not, the point is that its nearly impossible for the software to be able to do this. The claim in court under oath that Kazaa is capable of this is flat out perjury, and knowing these people, they probably KNEW it to be a lie.
How would you have it do this? Filename? (PFf yeah right) Hash of the file (change a byte and the file is no longer copyrighted) "Audio fingerprinting" like some companies claim to be able to do? (Best bet, yet I'd bet a small increase in playback speed raising tempo and pitch would fool it easily)
How hard would it be to setup a dynamic firewall solution like this? People would pay 5 to 10 bucks a month extra for it. Even someone like me so I don't have to use a router. I just don't trust a desktop firewall.
Too hard. Too much work. Requires too much intelligence. Even for the money.
Look at the ISPs out there now. Nearly ZERO perform any kind of egress filtering. How much do they pay for the bandwidth they're wasting when compromised computers on their network spew attacks across the internet? I suspect no amount of money would make the people running ISPs get off their asses and set up firewalls.
Actually, it sounds more like an endorsement in the opensource way than in Linux itself. "Look, we'll contribute to the community so that the community will grow a @#%# clue and learn how to write secure systems."
Given the number of errors and mistakes I see every day, there certainly is work out there, the problem is that nobody's interested in hiring people to fix the problems ;)
Sure, until ATSC gets replaced by something else using different compression. Then everyone can just buy an upgrade disk to flash the new codec. (Nahh, they'd rather sell a new TV)
Or maybe Sony wants to be able to unify its manufacturing? Build the exact same TV and program the Cell with the appropriate decoders for US, JP, UK, etc. Or more likely, extract that decoder from the TV itself, with it programmable to decode broadcast HDTV, Blu-Ray HDTV, HD-DVD (hedging their bets as a hardware company, of course). A unit that could be dropped into anything and loaded with the appropriate source driver, output driver, and decoder to fit in the middle.
DSP and Custom designs are great for high-power applications, but they're far more expensive to design and deploy than a programmable design with "enough" horsepower.
Hm, you have a point. Maybe they're using the older Remote Control styled cars with a really loooooong cable from the control to the robot?
Would be interesting to make it two that could couple together, one carrying the expensive instrumentation that could then drive away before the other half tries anything that might blow it up...
Aww whats wrong, you can dish out ad hominem attacks but can't take it? If your argument adds up to roughly "neener neener you can't count from 1" or "neener neener you don't have every ballot choice memorized nationwide", then you're just blowing a whole hell of a lot of hot air.
So what is it now, we're only supposed to care about what goes on in our own county? Its ok if Florida falls off into the sea as long as we don't live there? Quite alright if the whole state becomes a monarchy and sells fiefdoms, as long as they still get to vote for the president?
I guess I'm just not supposed to care. I should grease up, grab my ankles and worship the holy dollar like everyone else, democrat and republican alike? Its not like the company I work for does business in Florida and we care about the local tax rates, the local shipping ordinances, etc. Oh wait, we do! Am I supposed to abandon the pride I have in my country and the way we do things because people like you refuse to face the fact that people have been corrupted by their power?
Not once did you have anything to say about the truth of the facts being presented. Remember that facts, when true, are unbiased. The truth is neither democratic or republican, it simply is. I guess since you had nothing intelligent to add besides your observation on how to count (which turned out to be unfounded since it turned out the original poster had pasted that from the court proceedings), I Had Been Trolled.
You sir, are a fucking idiot. And I mean that in the best possible way. Right now, the biggest obstacle to democracy in this election is the combined work of both the Republican "lose the tinfoil hats" Party, and the Democratic "it doesn't matter" Party.
Yeah well, guess what. The President wasn't the only question on those ballots. Volusia county wouldn't have changed the outcome of the presidential election if it had voted 100% Kerry. But what about state elections? County seats? Mayors? Democracy must happen at all levels!
Why don't you get over your obsession with Kerry and Bush, and look at the big picture here? Accept that the truth is that Volusia county for certain has MAJOR human-created voting problems (or are you going to tell me that a bug in the machine made the election officials "forget" to sign the forged results that Volusia has been giving out as real? BBV pulled the real signed results out of the trash. Or are you going to tell me that BBV has a forgery, that they successfully forged the signatures of ALL of the election officials and the real document was accidentally signed in invisible ink?) and other counties may have had problems either human-made or machine-made.
You assume that we'll be using that kind of return capsule to return the stuff.
There are many other ways it could come home. For instance, a reactor could be established on the moon itself, powering equipment to build large rockets to ship the stuff home. Or rather than trying to get metals smelted from moonrock, parts of such a rocket could be shipped to the moon over the course of the year, at the end of which, the rocket brings home the next year's supply. Or we could simply say "screw Earth" and move, and not ship the stuff anywhere.
Yet another alternative would be to redesign current rockets to not discard spent stages or fuel tanks, and design them to survive re-entry with those tanks intact and full.
So there are ways to get the stuff home, that may or may not be solved by the time we have efficient H3 reactors.
More to the point, is there a market for another Beginning Perl 5 book now?
The End Is Nigh.
Oh right, because citizens who park in legal parking spots and expect not to be ticketed are so perfect. Man, the nerve of them to expect the police to know how to do their jobs, and to do them correctly.
Whatever, coward.
It's easy to get charges dropped with zero money and about an hour or two of your time
Just because your time is worthless doesn't mean we should have to waste our time when we're right in the first place.
I guess law abiding citizens who expect not to be harassed are yet another group of tin-foil hatters who think the government is "out to get them" or "out of control" just because they have to take some time out of their day to clean up after the mess the government made.
If the package maintainer designed the package to be relocatable, then its pretty easy, assuming the program itself is relocatable, and almost NONE are.
When the package was built, at some point it probably gave a --prefix option to configure (or let it use the default) and from that point on, the directories became hardcoded in the executable. The configfile is at "/somepath/foo.conf". The logs are at "/somepath/logs/" and so on.
If you don't like where the package manager decided it should go, grab a source package and edit the compile script to make it compile with the paths you want, then rebuild the package. Gets you all the flexibility of building it yourself plus package management.
Its easy to pull out the "ooh look, we're a big country" card and play it, but it completely ignores the reality of the situation. In Tokyo, you can get 100Mbps to your apartment for about as much as I pay for 1.5M/256K DSL. Is anyone even offering 100Mbps for $150/mo in New York, NY? 10Mbps?
So yeah, our coverage is shitty because of our rural areas (which is really a lie too, another post mentioned that someplace in Iowa formed a co-op and brought broadband to their homes in the middle of nowhere.) but the service provided at any given cost is shitty across the country too, and your "too big" card has no play here.
As long as companies and government worship the holy dollar its not going to get fixed, and companies will continue to petition state governments to hassle co-op developments, even in areas their sorry brand of broadband will never reach.
The amusing part is the difference between their AMD option and the Intel option. AMD Opteron*2 gets you 2 16x and 3 64 bit PCI slots, 4x sata, 2x gige, 8 dimms. Intel Xeon*2 gets you 2 16x and 3 32 bit PCI slots, 2x sata, 4 dimms and lots of USB and a firewire port.
Is it just me, or are we reaching some kind of upper limit on features? It appears you just can't get it all on one motherboard anymore.
Well, while you're mistrusting things, take a look at Volusia county's report on BlackBoxVoting. Seems that scoring negative votes for Gore last time wasn't enough for them, so this time they try to provide faked unsigned voter rolls and polling records that don't match the signed ones that BBV pulled out of the trash. Oops!
So tell you what, it could mean that the Democrats cheated the last two elections, or it could mean that the rest of the counties got bold from Volusia "it was just a fluke and its counted correctly now" County getting away with it last time without jail time.
Or, an alternate version: the Democrats conceded even though Bush stole the election so that Hillary (and Bill) could run in 2008.
Hillary could have run now. It's not like nobody ever dropped out of their current office to accept the presidency. She probably would have lost too.
The journalists all said they'd kill for a juicy election fraud story, but there was none to be found...not even one that might exist but have no "proof".
After twice calling elections wrong and getting letters from apparently reliable sources that turn out to be bogus, they're not going to jump on anything election related without proof written in stone and signed by God Himself.
Personally I believe that Bush did in fact win. But that does NOT explain away inconsistencies. Republicans are happy to claim that the Catholic Hispanics in Florida voted for them on abortion issues as if the Hispanics found religion just this summer and suddenly decided abortion was important. District-by-district poll/registration vs. count "statistical discrepancies" ONLY in paperless districts.
It does not explain away the Guilty-as-Sin behavior of the County of Volusia (nor the signed polling tapes that reflected different answers than the unsigned copy they were providing others). Hey, neat, thats the same county that gave Gore -16022 votes in 2000. What are the chances?
YOU DONT LEAVE WITH THE RECEIPT.
In a "paper trail" situation, the receipt is the ballot! The only purpose of the machine is to give the people who can't punch a hole properly a chance to have their vote count, and maybe you can plug all the machines in at the end and get a quick count, but in the end if something smells fishy, you pull those paper ballots out.
If the machine recorded a vote for A and printed out a vote for B, then this would be caught either when A wins by an unexpected landslide, or by chance by random sampling.
If you're able to find work with someone who's willing to sponsor your security clearance process
And theres the BIG IF. I found a lot of jobs where the HR would have been happy to have me, but they needed someone who could get to work right away and not sit around for 6 months pushing unimportant papers around.
Since you can't get a clearance by yourself (why not?), you're pretty much at the mercy of the BIG IF. And trust me, if anyone shows up with the needed clearance, unless you're super wonder dog AND the other guy's brain turned to jelly in a freak accident, you're not getting the job.
Have you considered that the companies lie and get away with it?
The general practice is to lay off, say, "Senior Developer III" who made $80k/yr, and got the job by having 8 years experience with C. Then you close the position. You list a new position in your paper: "Junior Tech I", 8 years experience with C required, starting salary $35k. No takers? "See," you say to the Labor Dept. "We need immigrants to fill this job." So the Labor people look to see what you're paying other "Junior Tech I" people, and you don't have any others, you just made the position. So they look on their little charts to see how much they should make. "Hm, Tech, thats $50k starting. Junior -$10K. Entry Level I position, -$5K sounds about right".
And this is how the company gets the Senior Developer III for $35K.
If you don't believe it, see any of the other responses in this thread with cites for how Intel abuses it across the board, as well as other companies that have been caught abusing it.
Once again: H1-B workers, by law can't be paid less than a US worker in a similar job: the wage level is certified, and if neccesary raised, by the local state department of labor.
It's not just pay, silly.
Lets say your productivity is starting to slump and you might not make your 4Q projection. If you tried to pull an EA and force your American employees to work days and nights for a week, most of them would walk away from you because they're not making video games.
But the alternative for an H1B is what, to go back home?
It'd be interesting to compare non-cash benefits for H1B employees and their US counterparts as well. Do they get as much insurance? Vacation time? (Do they take the vacation time they're given?) Stock options, for the people who still believe such things have value?
So I really don't think that online searching is "doomed".
Its not really "doomed", but last I heard, the odds were stacked against you. At the end of the "boom" times, most Monster job ads supposedly got around 100 resumes each.
Perhaps knowing what that number is now is of greater interest to everyone than "I joined the army" or "You suck if you don't have a job".