No it isn't entrapment because, they aren't charging them with any crime committed in the bogus company. They used the company to gather information on the crimes they had previously committed.
It may be illegally gathered evidence, but it is nowhere near entrapment. Entrapment is enticing someone to do something they may not have done without your influence.
Since you get to look at this file before hand there is little chance involved you can tweek make an algorithm to specifically compress that file, or at least drop it by a byte or two as in the above case.
So... are we worried about pain relief for a lamprey larvae that's to die? They can't be that squiggly that you can't pin them down to keep them from moving.
Unless we are worried that they may actually die from that much pain, thus ruining the experement. Or maybe their systems would be so shocked from that much pain that they would noe work as predicted. Or maybe the scientists are nice guys who hate to see any more suffering than needed for a bit of a morbid but productive experement
A half-human creature with the body of a machine is a sort of "unholy Grail" for the left, because such a creature would have the intellect of a human being without the soul. It would be a "born" sociopath, lacking the inborn moral sense that sets humanity apart from the animals.
So which body part that is bing replaced by the machines contains the soul or the inbourn since of morality?
All the while, millions more of starving people will die while governments spend millions on everything but what's going on here on earth. I'm not a bleeding-heart-tree-hugger... but surely there's more merit to improving the living standards of those not in the western world - than to be sending another explorer to Mars?
I hate this argument when it is used to counter any funding on any pure science. It is naive to beleive that spending any more money on the starving people is going to make much difference since most of the problem with the starving people of the world is POLITICAL and not a matter of funding. If the governments of the world cutinue to war with their people burn fields and bomb rail lines then their people will starve
Of course science funding could help people more than spending directly on foods by coming up with things that help distribution of food like refrigiration did. Or maybe enhance the quality of the food they can grow like golden rice. Or we could just spend the millions of dollars to ship food that will be hijacked by some guerilla army and get no real benifit from it.
One person is set as the check bit. He is the first to answer. He answers pass in under 10 seconds if there is an even numnber of red hats over 10 if there is an odd number of red hats. Then each person from then on out counts the red hats and and if it is suposed to be even, and he counts odd then he is a red hat, if it is suposed to be even and he counts even then he is a blue hat.
Followup is a great idea. Though what I was impressed with is that he didn't try to answer the question with bullshit that thought we would want to hear.
Firstly conventional drilling technology employs fixed drill bits, which use water and suction to remove rock debris. This system has no such facility for that
Why not? I see no reason that they can't run pipes down as they drill to evacuate gasses and dust as the rock is vaporized
Also it is very difficult to drill down and then sideways, as is common with current methods. Without this facility, the oil rig or platform is useless once the oil below has been used up
Maybe, but I would think there would be a way to drill at an angle, maybe with some high grade reflective joints. I'm not an optical physicist though
Conventional drilling also places a pipe as the bit moves forward, cementing the drill hole. With this system the hole must be "burned" and then a pipe forced down. This process will negate any speed gains in the actual drilling
Once again there is no reason the pipes can't be pushed through the hole as you go, keeping the speed gains
So far yet to be resolved is the question where does an internet transaction occur? This is of issue to which state gets the sales tax, which states gambling laws apply, which states pr0n laws apply. So congress would have to establish where the transaction takes place to begin to tackle the other issues
I'm not a constitutional lawer or anything, but I think that means that Missouri can't say we shall tax everything from New York x% because we don't like them. And that the federal government can't impose a fee for transporting items between state lines. But any state still has the rights to tax purchaces, property, or use within it's bounds
In most states you are suposed to be a responsible citizen and go to the department of revenue or whatever and pay the use tax on interstate purchaces. So you were suposed to pay sales tax
The reason that the catalog retailers didn't charge sales tax is because it would be a nightmare to have tax permits in all states, know all the rates and so on. But with the increase in mail order volume brought on by the internet states are getting itchy for that money.
I don't have a problem with paying sales tax on mail order any more than paying sales tax at my local book store. I do however beleive that there shouldn't be any different rules for the internet vs a regular catalog.
DES was sanctioned by the the NSA and it was broken by somebody not in the NSA. (don't have the book here to reference but they talk about it in applied cryptography). Of course after that happened the NSA said yes we know about that type of attack here is a fix for DES. So the public cryptography community may be behind the NSA but people do figure things out. There are pleanty of math PhD's that don't work for the NSA you know.
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No it isn't entrapment because, they aren't charging them with any crime committed in the bogus company. They used the company to gather information on the crimes they had previously committed.
I should be more clear enticing someone to commit a crime they may not have done without your influence.
It may be illegally gathered evidence, but it is nowhere near entrapment. Entrapment is enticing someone to do something they may not have done without your influence.
ut what are they doing against US crackers hacking Chinese computers? Hire them.
Since you get to look at this file before hand there is little chance involved you can tweek make an algorithm to specifically compress that file, or at least drop it by a byte or two as in the above case.
Unless we are worried that they may actually die from that much pain, thus ruining the experement. Or maybe their systems would be so shocked from that much pain that they would noe work as predicted. Or maybe the scientists are nice guys who hate to see any more suffering than needed for a bit of a morbid but productive experement
So which body part that is bing replaced by the machines contains the soul or the inbourn since of morality?
I hate this argument when it is used to counter any funding on any pure science. It is naive to beleive that spending any more money on the starving people is going to make much difference since most of the problem with the starving people of the world is POLITICAL and not a matter of funding. If the governments of the world cutinue to war with their people burn fields and bomb rail lines then their people will starve
Of course science funding could help people more than spending directly on foods by coming up with things that help distribution of food like refrigiration did. Or maybe enhance the quality of the food they can grow like golden rice. Or we could just spend the millions of dollars to ship food that will be hijacked by some guerilla army and get no real benifit from it.
Try Spamcop it seems to work pretty well.
One person is set as the check bit. He is the first to answer. He answers pass in under 10 seconds if there is an even numnber of red hats over 10 if there is an odd number of red hats. Then each person from then on out counts the red hats and and if it is suposed to be even, and he counts odd then he is a red hat, if it is suposed to be even and he counts even then he is a blue hat.
I wonder if Katz was inpired by this ZD Net Article this morning
There is no natural canola! Canola is modified rapeseed plant
It was evident he knew that the plants were there since he harvested the seed and replanted.
www.nakednews.com that's some quality news. A good multimedia example
It is reversed, and I loose the points spent on this artilce. Which is why I commented, to undo my mistake.
Damn wheel mouse, didn't mean to moderate this offtopic. *sigh* Sorry/ /P?
Uh, no. It is expressed entirely with the english charater set. Which is what this is all about using a non-english character set in url's. RTFA
Followup is a great idea. Though what I was impressed with is that he didn't try to answer the question with bullshit that thought we would want to hear.
Why not? I see no reason that they can't run pipes down as they drill to evacuate gasses and dust as the rock is vaporized
Also it is very difficult to drill down and then sideways, as is common with current methods. Without this facility, the oil rig or platform is useless once the oil below has been used upMaybe, but I would think there would be a way to drill at an angle, maybe with some high grade reflective joints. I'm not an optical physicist though
Conventional drilling also places a pipe as the bit moves forward, cementing the drill hole. With this system the hole must be "burned" and then a pipe forced down. This process will negate any speed gains in the actual drillingOnce again there is no reason the pipes can't be pushed through the hole as you go, keeping the speed gains
That is exactly what they are talking about. How to enforce existing laws or even make enforcing them feasable.
So far yet to be resolved is the question where does an internet transaction occur? This is of issue to which state gets the sales tax, which states gambling laws apply, which states pr0n laws apply. So congress would have to establish where the transaction takes place to begin to tackle the other issues
I'm not a constitutional lawer or anything, but I think that means that Missouri can't say we shall tax everything from New York x% because we don't like them. And that the federal government can't impose a fee for transporting items between state lines. But any state still has the rights to tax purchaces, property, or use within it's bounds
In most states you are suposed to be a responsible citizen and go to the department of revenue or whatever and pay the use tax on interstate purchaces. So you were suposed to pay sales tax
The reason that the catalog retailers didn't charge sales tax is because it would be a nightmare to have tax permits in all states, know all the rates and so on. But with the increase in mail order volume brought on by the internet states are getting itchy for that money.
I don't have a problem with paying sales tax on mail order any more than paying sales tax at my local book store. I do however beleive that there shouldn't be any different rules for the internet vs a regular catalog.
"It smacks of Big Brother. Personally I do not tend to be (overly) paranoid"
No one intends to be "Overly Paranoid"
DES was sanctioned by the the NSA and it was broken by somebody not in the NSA. (don't have the book here to reference but they talk about it in applied cryptography). Of course after that happened the NSA said yes we know about that type of attack here is a fix for DES. So the public cryptography community may be behind the NSA but people do figure things out. There are pleanty of math PhD's that don't work for the NSA you know.