I'm sorry, what else would you call it? http://www.dallasnews.com/inco... It has hinges on one side, and a handle on the other. It's a little toy suitcase. Seriously, how does that matter?
"Ahmed Mohamed â" who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart â" hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday" and "...He said he threw it together in about 20 minutes before bedtime on Sunday: a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, all strapped inside a case with a tiger hologram on the front...."
There's almost nothing homemade about it; read my link: he took the COVER off a clock, and stuck the works in a suitcase. He didn't - even by the stretch of a 14 yr old's imagination - BUILD a clock. He didn't "throw anything together" unless you consider cracking the case as "throwing together".
And further to your point: âoeShe was like, it looks like a bomb,â he said. âoeI told her, âIt doesnâ(TM)t look like a bomb to me.â(TM)â âoeThey were like, âSo you tried to make a bomb?â(TM)â Ahmed said.
âoeI told them no, I was trying to make a clock.â âoeHe said, âIt looks like a movie bomb to me.â(TM)â...certainly reads that the *original spin* on the story wasn't the subtle distinction you say it was. The reporter was telling a story of a boy whose project was MISTAKEN FOR A BOMB.
Young Mr Mohammed seems to have a) not "built" anything, merely taken the case off a clock, and put it in a box.... b)...which looked astonishingly suspicious with lots of bare wires all kludged in there... c) which was then closed with a cord (why? Why not just latch the case closed with its latches?) http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech...
Personally, I don't see this as a binary issue where one has to pick one "side" or the other. I believe that: - Young Mr Mohammed was either deliberately trolling his school authorities, or he was used to do so. AND - the authorities overreacted as did the cops who absurdly put a non-threatening willowy boy in cuffs why again?...and the media ate that narrative shit right up.
Personally, knowing Dallas cops and bureaucracies in general, I'm more inclined to go with the cops and school admins are policy-following dullards whose "rulebook" said that in circumstance A, you cuff the "perp".
Of course, this is patently ridiculous with a willowy 9th grader who's not even close to being violent, but the lawyers have pretty thoroughly shaved off all the "independent thought" from such a situation.
Personally, I'm an incompetence-before-malice sort of guy, but then I'm not looking for fuel to fire my indignant rage either.
The wealthiest country ever in human history, and (both privately and publicly) deeply in debt because we cannot afford all the things we want to buy.
And this doesn't merit even the faintest passing thought from most members of congress or the White House, whose job it is to lead this country and manage its spending.
...and/.'s fine, modern comment system deleted the statemnt between the word "shot" and the xkcd reference:
"...while in the 2000s, we announce a project in 2004 to essentially re-build (but update) 40-year-old tech, and the first manned flight isn't for 19 years"
So... In the 1960s we could take basically an untried technology and build it (from C-1 to C5), deploy it, and use it for a lunar shot in https://xkcd.com/1133/ (up-goer five)
Not to mention that it's probably a reasonable assumption that civilizations at that level might be far more efficient with their use of energy, and emit much less - either out a desire for efficiency, or because they DON'T want to call attention to themselves.
The assertion seems to be that since code will be ubiquitous, then everyone will learn to code is provably silly. Cars have become universal, yet the ability to fix them decreases with every generation. Literacy is nearly universal now, would anyone assert that people write better now than they did 100 years ago? Let's use even a code-like example: mods for first person shooter...the modding community used to be robust for these games but as the level of quality and complexity of the games have improved, I'd posit that the modders have (largely) disappeared; it just takes to much time/effort for hobbyists to make something comparably decent that doesn't look like crap compared to professionally produced levels.
And I'd absolutely disagree. The first step for autonomous driving would make sense to be implemented ONLY on long-stretch highway drives, with strong signals many minutes before exit-destination arrivals and a "pull over and stop" system for drivers that don't respond/wake up.
To suggest that driverless cars have to be able to cope with every conceivable situation is totally unreasonable. Hell, HUMANS can't cope with "every conceivable situation", really.
Having asked this question in a public forum, you've now drawn the monitoring attention of NSAs bots so it doesn't matter WHAT country you're in (provably).
Maybe start using more durable, less monitorable tech like a pencil and paper.
From TFA: "This cover-up is all the more troubling because it runs contrary to President Obamaâ(TM)s speech in Prague in 2009" Troubling? Nearly stopped reading at this point; to vapidly disregard the radically different geopolitical circumstances (both regional and global) between 1979 and 2009 is, frankly, tendentious idiocy.
It might also be worth noting that Israel, who'd been attacked generally by the Arab states around it in 1948, 1967, and 1973. It has not been openly attacked since.
Oh no, "dread" because the Dark Lord of Evil Media(tm) has bought the holy, sacred, pristine, and virginal Nat Geo? Oh noes! What will he do???!?!
1) if he's so incredibly evil, why did they sell to him? Seriously, if you put your precious morality is apparently up to the highest bidder, ipso facto you're going to be bought by a rich dude (who are all evil, right?).
2) if NatGeo is NOT making money and he's rescuing it, well, even the righteous have to pay rent.
3) I've actually been considering cancelling my sub for the last few years, considering the constant and unending sky-is-falling-global-warming editorial stance they've had. Pretty much anything bad happening in the world is explicitly or implicitly blamed on global warming which is simply tedious and monotonous, if not outright tendentious (which is where Scientific American went in the early 2k's).
I appreciate your optimism, but trust me: having kids is stressful, and I found that having games as a (less frequent, but still occasional) escape was even more important.
....just make sure the marketing message suggests that only the hippest, coolest, trendiest people join that program, and the Apple-ddicts will line up to sign up.
Obviously the summary was written to generate sympathy: 2 years prison, 2 years probation is NOT a 4-year sentence, in common parlance. I don't give a shit about how you feel about piracy (it's not actually piracy, it's copyright infringement) but he did something he knew was illegal, and profited massively from it.
So 2 years in a minimum security jail? Sure, I think that's reasonable.
Sorry, but considering that tens of thousands of pages have been written on the subtle nuances of wine flavors, yet blindfolded wine experts couldn't actually distinguish between red and white varieties, I'm guessing the fine distinctions of whiskeys are pretty much the same.
It's certainly credible that a chemical reaction taking place in an environment without convection or gravity, etc might proceed differently in some respects, but I'm going to file this one down around "monster sound cables give you cleaner sound" in the authenticity-file.
I was going to say that we should keep it quiet, and offer a free Obsession for Men bath and body kit to anyone going big-cat hunting. You know, to even the odds a bit.
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I'm sorry, what else would you call it?
http://www.dallasnews.com/inco...
It has hinges on one side, and a handle on the other. It's a little toy suitcase.
Seriously, how does that matter?
Except that story defeats your point.
"Ahmed Mohamed â" who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart â" hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday"
and
"...He said he threw it together in about 20 minutes before bedtime on Sunday: a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, all strapped inside a case with a tiger hologram on the front...."
There's almost nothing homemade about it; read my link: he took the COVER off a clock, and stuck the works in a suitcase. He didn't - even by the stretch of a 14 yr old's imagination - BUILD a clock. He didn't "throw anything together" unless you consider cracking the case as "throwing together".
And further to your point:
âoeShe was like, it looks like a bomb,â he said.
âoeI told her, âIt doesnâ(TM)t look like a bomb to me.â(TM)â
âoeThey were like, âSo you tried to make a bomb?â(TM)â Ahmed said.
âoeI told them no, I was trying to make a clock.â ...certainly reads that the *original spin* on the story wasn't the subtle distinction you say it was. The reporter was telling a story of a boy whose project was MISTAKEN FOR A BOMB.
âoeHe said, âIt looks like a movie bomb to me.â(TM)â
Young Mr Mohammed seems to have
a) not "built" anything, merely taken the case off a clock, and put it in a box....
b)...which looked astonishingly suspicious with lots of bare wires all kludged in there...
c) which was then closed with a cord (why? Why not just latch the case closed with its latches?)
http://blogs.artvoice.com/tech...
Personally, I don't see this as a binary issue where one has to pick one "side" or the other. ...and the media ate that narrative shit right up.
I believe that:
- Young Mr Mohammed was either deliberately trolling his school authorities, or he was used to do so.
AND
- the authorities overreacted as did the cops who absurdly put a non-threatening willowy boy in cuffs why again?
Well, you can assume that, sure.
Personally, knowing Dallas cops and bureaucracies in general, I'm more inclined to go with the cops and school admins are policy-following dullards whose "rulebook" said that in circumstance A, you cuff the "perp".
Of course, this is patently ridiculous with a willowy 9th grader who's not even close to being violent, but the lawyers have pretty thoroughly shaved off all the "independent thought" from such a situation.
Personally, I'm an incompetence-before-malice sort of guy, but then I'm not looking for fuel to fire my indignant rage either.
This penalty is going to be severe.
It's one thing to have a colossal recall.
It's another to DELIBERATELY design something to clearly and obviously circumvent tests and emission limits.
This is going to be painful Volkswagen. Sell your VW stocks.
Maybe it has /something/ to do with the fact that Norway's been awash in petrodollars for decades? /facepalm.
The wealthiest country ever in human history, and (both privately and publicly) deeply in debt because we cannot afford all the things we want to buy.
And this doesn't merit even the faintest passing thought from most members of congress or the White House, whose job it is to lead this country and manage its spending.
...and /.'s fine, modern comment system deleted the statemnt between the word "shot" and the xkcd reference:
"...while in the 2000s, we announce a project in 2004 to essentially re-build (but update) 40-year-old tech, and the first manned flight isn't for 19 years"
So...
In the 1960s we could take basically an untried technology and build it (from C-1 to C5), deploy it, and use it for a lunar shot in https://xkcd.com/1133/ (up-goer five)
When it's written by Symantec?
Think I'm kidding? Ever try to REMOVE Symantic "antivirus" crap?
Not to mention that it's probably a reasonable assumption that civilizations at that level might be far more efficient with their use of energy, and emit much less - either out a desire for efficiency, or because they DON'T want to call attention to themselves.
The assertion seems to be that since code will be ubiquitous, then everyone will learn to code is provably silly.
Cars have become universal, yet the ability to fix them decreases with every generation.
Literacy is nearly universal now, would anyone assert that people write better now than they did 100 years ago?
Let's use even a code-like example: mods for first person shooter...the modding community used to be robust for these games but as the level of quality and complexity of the games have improved, I'd posit that the modders have (largely) disappeared; it just takes to much time/effort for hobbyists to make something comparably decent that doesn't look like crap compared to professionally produced levels.
And I'd absolutely disagree.
The first step for autonomous driving would make sense to be implemented ONLY on long-stretch highway drives, with strong signals many minutes before exit-destination arrivals and a "pull over and stop" system for drivers that don't respond/wake up.
To suggest that driverless cars have to be able to cope with every conceivable situation is totally unreasonable. Hell, HUMANS can't cope with "every conceivable situation", really.
Still not better than the last of the V8 Interceptors.
Having asked this question in a public forum, you've now drawn the monitoring attention of NSAs bots so it doesn't matter WHAT country you're in (provably).
Maybe start using more durable, less monitorable tech like a pencil and paper.
I give it precisely the same attention/respect that I do for national blueberry day and national "dress up your pet" day.
From TFA: "This cover-up is all the more troubling because it runs contrary to President Obamaâ(TM)s speech in Prague in 2009"
Troubling?
Nearly stopped reading at this point; to vapidly disregard the radically different geopolitical circumstances (both regional and global) between 1979 and 2009 is, frankly, tendentious idiocy.
It might also be worth noting that Israel, who'd been attacked generally by the Arab states around it in 1948, 1967, and 1973. It has not been openly attacked since.
Now, she should be liable for the costs of the suit.
Oh no, "dread" because the Dark Lord of Evil Media(tm) has bought the holy, sacred, pristine, and virginal Nat Geo? Oh noes! What will he do???!?!
1) if he's so incredibly evil, why did they sell to him? Seriously, if you put your precious morality is apparently up to the highest bidder, ipso facto you're going to be bought by a rich dude (who are all evil, right?).
2) if NatGeo is NOT making money and he's rescuing it, well, even the righteous have to pay rent.
3) I've actually been considering cancelling my sub for the last few years, considering the constant and unending sky-is-falling-global-warming editorial stance they've had. Pretty much anything bad happening in the world is explicitly or implicitly blamed on global warming which is simply tedious and monotonous, if not outright tendentious (which is where Scientific American went in the early 2k's).
Nat Geo
I appreciate your optimism, but trust me: having kids is stressful, and I found that having games as a (less frequent, but still occasional) escape was even more important.
....just make sure the marketing message suggests that only the hippest, coolest, trendiest people join that program, and the Apple-ddicts will line up to sign up.
Obviously the summary was written to generate sympathy: 2 years prison, 2 years probation is NOT a 4-year sentence, in common parlance.
I don't give a shit about how you feel about piracy (it's not actually piracy, it's copyright infringement) but he did something he knew was illegal, and profited massively from it.
So 2 years in a minimum security jail? Sure, I think that's reasonable.
Sorry, but considering that tens of thousands of pages have been written on the subtle nuances of wine flavors, yet blindfolded wine experts couldn't actually distinguish between red and white varieties, I'm guessing the fine distinctions of whiskeys are pretty much the same.
http://www.theguardian.com/lif...
It's certainly credible that a chemical reaction taking place in an environment without convection or gravity, etc might proceed differently in some respects, but I'm going to file this one down around "monster sound cables give you cleaner sound" in the authenticity-file.
What do I know, I still think there's actually a difference between a "drone" and "any remotely-controlled aircraft".
I was going to say that we should keep it quiet, and offer a free Obsession for Men bath and body kit to anyone going big-cat hunting. You know, to even the odds a bit.