I predict a lot of lovely young ladies will be strip searched, and those rooms with the mirror/window... well, guys will be lining up with their cameras.
Those photos will make their way to the internet, and 4Chan will have a field day.
And the crimes those ladies are convicted of? Underage drinking, smoking pot, and anything else the creepy cop can think of before he "detains" that lovely young lady.
PA had an issue where the detention facility was paying a judge to convict kids because the facility charged the state per kid, so, more kids == more profit.
In NYC alone in 2011, we had 50,000 arrested for smoking a joint, and every one of those arrests is a potential strip search.
There's an abuse of power already in progress, and we just gave them the ability to strip us literally, as well as strip us of our rights. 4th Amendment, anyone?
Right, because beating you, pepper spraying you, zip tieing you so tight your hands turn blue, then beating you some more isn't enough. Now they can give you a full cavity search as well.
By itself, Jaywalking isn't an arrestable offense.
But let's say you didn't pay a parking ticket, so a warrant was issued for your arrest. Or let's go further and say you did pay the ticket, but they forgot to cancel the warrant, or let's say that your name is the same as someone else who has a warrant. Then it's get naked!
Or let's say you're protesting the horrible treatment of the 99% and the police decide to single you out to be beaten, pepper sprayed, beaten some more, zip-tied so tight that your hands turn blue and you suffer permanent nerve damage, and then they beat you some more, and then take you to jail and strip you naked.
I'm already done being mad about this. Since you're basically being strip searched now when you board a plane, take a train, drive your car, get arrested for smoking a joint, yadda, yadda, I propose we just stop wearing clothes.
I mean the TSA, cops, school principals, ticket wardens, etc. are gonna remove 'em anyway, you might as well just stay naked.
And for all you RTFA dopes who are going to reply to this saying "this is only for people being released into the general prision population, I say 'BULLSHIT'.
There's a story right below this one about cell-phone tracking without a warrant. Don't believe for a second this ruling won't be used to abuse rights by those in power, or those that THINK they have power because they have guns and handcuffs, or they are backed up by some "board".
Hell, potential employers want your facebook password, maybe pretty soon you'll be strip searched before you can go to work.
Time to leave this country. In Florida, it's legal to provoke someone to threaten you and then you shoot them, it's now legal to strip search anyone for any reason, and our government is controlled and run by Goldman Sachs, for Goldman Sachs. Screw this.
"Conservatives" sure do seem to trust science when they get cancer, or need an operation. Then all of a sudden, there aren't enough medical advances to suit them. They'll shell out tons of cash to extend their lives just a wee bit more.
Dick Cheney just had a heart transplant, and the donor was probably some guy he shot in the face. Tell me Dick Cheney doesn't "trust science" when it comes to keeping him alive.
Google seems to have lost it. They are quickly turning into a company that, mark my words, will be as easily hated as Microsoft.
And this latest idiocy seems to be *exactly* the kind of stupid, not thinking about the problem, problem that Google now has.
Clearly, over 75% of the "attendees" of this conference are not even going for the conference, they are going to get free shit.
So, what's the point? How can you have a developers conference, when a large majority of the people there are not even going to be developers?
I'm in agreement with the posters who have stated that there needs to be a little programming test to get in, that would seperate the developers from the posers.
As their "system" stands now, scalpers rule the day, most of the people that *want* to develop don't get in, and most of the people that do get in have no actual interest in attending.
I'm reminded of "TED", certainly in the early days of TED, where it was enormously expensive to get in, and Negroponte wrote an editorial in "New Media" magazine complaining "There are no new ideas here". -- Duh. "New Ideas" come from small studios, not giant corporations, who were the only ones who could afford to attend.
Google is a big company now. And big companies only like to play with other big companies. It's unfortunate that they have lost sight so quickly, of what it was that brought them to where they are now.
Make CEOs responsible for the actions of their companies. After all, if I defauded the government of 16million dollars you bet your ass I'd be in prison, but somehow AT&T gets only a fine?
A fine that they will not even pay, since the money will actually come from their customers?
The solution is to Jail the CEO.Just ask Mitt Romney, after all, he claims the corporations are people too.
The CEOs should take responsibility, since it's the only way they can justify their outrageous salaries. It sure isn't because they've added value to the company. The S&P500 has been flat for a decade, but CEO compensation has gone up 400%.
We read Candide. That's gotta be way more "pornographic" than Ender's Game. What is this country coming to?
Between Santorum, Limbaugh and the rest of those jokers bible thumping their way into our bedrooms but refusing to even tax one cent of a rich person's income (because that's government intrusion), this country is really and truly fucked.
We're going to be like Argentina, and the shooting in Florida is proving that there are now only gated communities and trailer parks -- and if you're the wrong color in a gated community, you are a target.
"In the US this would never happen unless it was needed to fight the war on terror" -----
Could you detail even one instance where *anything* was done to benefit the people of the United States during the so-called "War on Terror"? Because I can't think of anything.
I seem to recall "thin clients" making that same claim, and it never caught on. How many businesses invested in those, only to have to re-sell them cheap on eBay?
I cannot believe all these people here posting that the desktop is dead, tablets are the future, and no one is going to use a full blown PC except for hardcore gamers.
Dudes; wake the f up. In the corporate world, the desktop PC is everywhere. What do you think people in offices are doing all day, surfing facebook? They are not because facebook is blocked by the corporate proxy.
No, the are running spreadsheets, inputting data, copying data out of custom apps built in-house that speak to gigantic Oracle databases, and pasting that data into word documents, and writing a ton of material to explain that data so that it can be understood by MBA suits who decide what stock they are buying this microsecond.
All that isn't going to be done on a tablet. Not this decade, at least.
I need two monitors at 1280 x 1024 to get my work done, and I'm still losing windows under all that clutter. I have to monitor 4 different exchange mailboxes, I have 3 browser windows, a rumba session to the mainframe and several instances of notepad and MS word running. And a CMD/DOS session for FTP, and a window to my share on the SAN.
I have to run Firefox for external web browsing but IE8 to access the internal intranet, as the apps don't format correctly under firefox.
Our machines run 24/7 because a night-shift comes in to take our places when we leave for the day.
If you really think a tablet is going to replace this infrastructure any time soon, I don't think you understand just how entrenched large corporations are in the PC. And it took them decades to get here, we still have old-timers who have worked here since before the PC was a part of the corporate world, and they only know how to use the phone, they don't send emails. Of course, most of the these folks are close to retirement.
But that means that it took 40 years to get to this point, and I think it's going to take 40 years to move to some other technology that's radically different, like a tablet.
Microsoft is smoking crack if they think we're all going to smoothly transition to a Tablet OS, even on our desktops, in anything less than 10 years.
At least now I can go after them. Let me call the FBI to start an investigation... Wait... who are the "good guys" again? Can I really ask the authorities to prosecute themselves? And then the rest of the world wonders why some are drawn to vigilante justice.
Are we talking about the *same* Washington Post that continually loses my ID so I have to re-register over and over again so I can post comments on their politics articles?
The same WaPo that employs Jennifer Rubin who writes hateful articles, and when we try and correct her, those posts are deleted?
The same WaPo that won't load the page at all if the ad server is a little slow to respond? Instead you're staring at a blank white page, which is just as well, since the article will likely be filled with factual errors as well as spelling mistakes?
Taco, if you're going to start anyplace, fix their online presence first, as right now, I'm hesitant to even load the site on my browser.
The falcon, being the first spaceship in the SW universe to be seen going into (and out of) FTL, makes Han Solo the first fryer. Stuff it George Lucas!
But seriously, wouldn't solar winds and a habitable planet's magnetic field tend to deflect the vast majority of this crap? I mean, without either of these, we'd be getting fried by our own sun.
You cannot arrest a cop. You can try, but he'll hit you with his billy club, or taser you, or shoot you, because he feels he's in the right and you're the perp, and nothing you do will change that. The more you try and arrest him, the angrier he'll get.
So, it comes down to numbers. He'll call for backup to take you down. You then need to have enough backup to take him and his backup down. So, they'll call for more backup, and it will simply escalate until it's a full-blown shooting war and the national guard is involved.
Ever see 5 police cars to pull over 1 guy? Ever see 30 cops questioning one dude in the subway?
Cops use overwhelming force to take down a perp. So unless you have a significant army at your disposal that can outgun, essentially, the entire police force, and possibly even the SWAT teams, the National Guard, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, you can't arrest a cop.
See Blade Runner. The simple reason that police are not arrested for destruction of evidence is that the police enforce the law. And the police cover for each other when they break the law. Therefore the police are above the law.
I know you like to think you're living in a democratic republic where all are equal under the law, but that's just not the case. And the sooner you learn that, the better off you'll be.
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I predict a lot of lovely young ladies will be strip searched, and those rooms with the mirror/window... well, guys will be lining up with their cameras.
Those photos will make their way to the internet, and 4Chan will have a field day.
And the crimes those ladies are convicted of? Underage drinking, smoking pot, and anything else the creepy cop can think of before he "detains" that lovely young lady.
What about Juvenile Detention facilities?
PA had an issue where the detention facility was paying a judge to convict kids because the facility charged the state per kid, so, more kids == more profit.
In NYC alone in 2011, we had 50,000 arrested for smoking a joint, and every one of those arrests is a potential strip search.
There's an abuse of power already in progress, and we just gave them the ability to strip us literally, as well as strip us of our rights. 4th Amendment, anyone?
Every outstanding traffic ticket in America has just been paid!
(For those that don't get this joke, RTFA!)
Right, because beating you, pepper spraying you, zip tieing you so tight your hands turn blue, then beating you some more isn't enough. Now they can give you a full cavity search as well.
All for exercising your first amendments rights.
Way to go America. Land of the .... free?
Yes and no.
By itself, Jaywalking isn't an arrestable offense.
But let's say you didn't pay a parking ticket, so a warrant was issued for your arrest. Or let's go further and say you did pay the ticket, but they forgot to cancel the warrant, or let's say that your name is the same as someone else who has a warrant. Then it's get naked!
Or let's say you're protesting the horrible treatment of the 99% and the police decide to single you out to be beaten, pepper sprayed, beaten some more, zip-tied so tight that your hands turn blue and you suffer permanent nerve damage, and then they beat you some more, and then take you to jail and strip you naked.
I'm already done being mad about this. Since you're basically being strip searched now when you board a plane, take a train, drive your car, get arrested for smoking a joint, yadda, yadda, I propose we just stop wearing clothes.
I mean the TSA, cops, school principals, ticket wardens, etc. are gonna remove 'em anyway, you might as well just stay naked.
And for all you RTFA dopes who are going to reply to this saying "this is only for people being released into the general prision population, I say 'BULLSHIT'.
There's a story right below this one about cell-phone tracking without a warrant. Don't believe for a second this ruling won't be used to abuse rights by those in power, or those that THINK they have power because they have guns and handcuffs, or they are backed up by some "board".
Hell, potential employers want your facebook password, maybe pretty soon you'll be strip searched before you can go to work.
Time to leave this country. In Florida, it's legal to provoke someone to threaten you and then you shoot them, it's now legal to strip search anyone for any reason, and our government is controlled and run by Goldman Sachs, for Goldman Sachs. Screw this.
I only downloaded this app on Friday after first hearing about it and now it's been pulled... I guess I don't get any free updates to that one...
"Conservatives" sure do seem to trust science when they get cancer, or need an operation. Then all of a sudden, there aren't enough medical advances to suit them. They'll shell out tons of cash to extend their lives just a wee bit more.
Dick Cheney just had a heart transplant, and the donor was probably some guy he shot in the face. Tell me Dick Cheney doesn't "trust science" when it comes to keeping him alive.
Google seems to have lost it. They are quickly turning into a company that, mark my words, will be as easily hated as Microsoft.
And this latest idiocy seems to be *exactly* the kind of stupid, not thinking about the problem, problem that Google now has.
Clearly, over 75% of the "attendees" of this conference are not even going for the conference, they are going to get free shit.
So, what's the point? How can you have a developers conference, when a large majority of the people there are not even going to be developers?
I'm in agreement with the posters who have stated that there needs to be a little programming test to get in, that would seperate the developers from the posers.
As their "system" stands now, scalpers rule the day, most of the people that *want* to develop don't get in, and most of the people that do get in have no actual interest in attending.
I'm reminded of "TED", certainly in the early days of TED, where it was enormously expensive to get in, and Negroponte wrote an editorial in "New Media" magazine complaining "There are no new ideas here". -- Duh. "New Ideas" come from small studios, not giant corporations, who were the only ones who could afford to attend.
Google is a big company now. And big companies only like to play with other big companies. It's unfortunate that they have lost sight so quickly, of what it was that brought them to where they are now.
Parent is completely on target, and this may be the most insightful post ever written on Slashdot.
Make CEOs responsible for the actions of their companies. After all, if I defauded the government of 16million dollars you bet your ass I'd be in prison, but somehow AT&T gets only a fine?
A fine that they will not even pay, since the money will actually come from their customers?
The solution is to Jail the CEO.Just ask Mitt Romney, after all, he claims the corporations are people too.
The CEOs should take responsibility, since it's the only way they can justify their outrageous salaries. It sure isn't because they've added value to the company. The S&P500 has been flat for a decade, but CEO compensation has gone up 400%.
Disclaimer: I am the 99%
I've always heard that fusion was very, very difficult without Helium3, which is in short supply Earth-wise, but more available on the moon.
How is your process dealing with the Helium3 issue (if at all), and how did you overcome the difficulties involved?
Ironically, if we still had a space program, we'd probably have had fusion since the mid-80's since we'd be mining all that Helium3....
We read Candide. That's gotta be way more "pornographic" than Ender's Game. What is this country coming to?
Between Santorum, Limbaugh and the rest of those jokers bible thumping their way into our bedrooms but refusing to even tax one cent of a rich person's income (because that's government intrusion), this country is really and truly fucked.
We're going to be like Argentina, and the shooting in Florida is proving that there are now only gated communities and trailer parks -- and if you're the wrong color in a gated community, you are a target.
You're thinking of Mr. 880
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042742/
It's a movie.
"In the US this would never happen unless it was needed to fight the war on terror"
-----
Could you detail even one instance where *anything* was done to benefit the people of the United States during the so-called "War on Terror"? Because I can't think of anything.
I seem to recall "thin clients" making that same claim, and it never caught on. How many businesses invested in those, only to have to re-sell them cheap on eBay?
I cannot believe all these people here posting that the desktop is dead, tablets are the future, and no one is going to use a full blown PC except for hardcore gamers.
Dudes; wake the f up. In the corporate world, the desktop PC is everywhere. What do you think people in offices are doing all day, surfing facebook? They are not because facebook is blocked by the corporate proxy.
No, the are running spreadsheets, inputting data, copying data out of custom apps built in-house that speak to gigantic Oracle databases, and pasting that data into word documents, and writing a ton of material to explain that data so that it can be understood by MBA suits who decide what stock they are buying this microsecond.
All that isn't going to be done on a tablet. Not this decade, at least.
I need two monitors at 1280 x 1024 to get my work done, and I'm still losing windows under all that clutter. I have to monitor 4 different exchange mailboxes, I have 3 browser windows, a rumba session to the mainframe and several instances of notepad and MS word running. And a CMD/DOS session for FTP, and a window to my share on the SAN.
I have to run Firefox for external web browsing but IE8 to access the internal intranet, as the apps don't format correctly under firefox.
Our machines run 24/7 because a night-shift comes in to take our places when we leave for the day.
If you really think a tablet is going to replace this infrastructure any time soon, I don't think you understand just how entrenched large corporations are in the PC. And it took them decades to get here, we still have old-timers who have worked here since before the PC was a part of the corporate world, and they only know how to use the phone, they don't send emails. Of course, most of the these folks are close to retirement.
But that means that it took 40 years to get to this point, and I think it's going to take 40 years to move to some other technology that's radically different, like a tablet.
Microsoft is smoking crack if they think we're all going to smoothly transition to a Tablet OS, even on our desktops, in anything less than 10 years.
At least now I can go after them. Let me call the FBI to start an investigation... Wait... who are the "good guys" again? Can I really ask the authorities to prosecute themselves? And then the rest of the world wonders why some are drawn to vigilante justice.
Are we talking about the *same* Washington Post that continually loses my ID so I have to re-register over and over again so I can post comments on their politics articles?
The same WaPo that employs Jennifer Rubin who writes hateful articles, and when we try and correct her, those posts are deleted?
The same WaPo that won't load the page at all if the ad server is a little slow to respond? Instead you're staring at a blank white page, which is just as well, since the article will likely be filled with factual errors as well as spelling mistakes?
Taco, if you're going to start anyplace, fix their online presence first, as right now, I'm hesitant to even load the site on my browser.
The falcon, being the first spaceship in the SW universe to be seen going into (and out of) FTL, makes Han Solo the first fryer. Stuff it George Lucas!
But seriously, wouldn't solar winds and a habitable planet's magnetic field tend to deflect the vast majority of this crap? I mean, without either of these, we'd be getting fried by our own sun.
Except that in the 23rd Century way back then, Pluto was a PLANET!!!
You cannot arrest a cop. You can try, but he'll hit you with his billy club, or taser you, or shoot you, because he feels he's in the right and you're the perp, and nothing you do will change that. The more you try and arrest him, the angrier he'll get.
So, it comes down to numbers. He'll call for backup to take you down. You then need to have enough backup to take him and his backup down. So, they'll call for more backup, and it will simply escalate until it's a full-blown shooting war and the national guard is involved.
Ever see 5 police cars to pull over 1 guy? Ever see 30 cops questioning one dude in the subway?
Cops use overwhelming force to take down a perp. So unless you have a significant army at your disposal that can outgun, essentially, the entire police force, and possibly even the SWAT teams, the National Guard, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, you can't arrest a cop.
How'd that work out for those Branch Dividians?
See Blade Runner.
The simple reason that police are not arrested for destruction of evidence is that the police enforce the law. And the police cover for each other when they break the law. Therefore the police are above the law.
I know you like to think you're living in a democratic republic where all are equal under the law, but that's just not the case. And the sooner you learn that, the better off you'll be.
You: "Siri, please cook dinner"
Stove: "ok... I am cooking dinner"
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Krynoid
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seeds_of_Doom
For shame... for shame...
No one remembers their Tom Baker Dr. Who episodes.