You're right, that one was kinda stupid. I don't know the laws in Nevada, but here in PA they would have gotten her on SOMETHING. Perhaps "Assault on a police officer" when she slammed the door into him. THEN you get her for resisting arrest.
We all know it's easy for cops to trump up charges. Thanks for clarifying where you stand on that issue.
First you seperate them. This he did. Then you question them. This he attempted. Unfortunately, he was not able to leave the father due to his combative and aggressive state.
I've watched the footage, and you are spin-doctoring it. First off, they were already seperated. Hiibel was outside the vehicle and moved to the tailgate when the officers pulled up. Mimi was in the truck. He did not approach the officers in anything close to a threatening manner. He was obviously agitated but arguing with a loved one tends to do that to a person.
The bare bones fact is the officers made mistake after mistake.
Face it, the officers were acting like blowhards. First off, the officer should have repeated what he was there for. Second, he should have been forthcoming in why he wanted the ID (I'm going to need your ID so I can do a routine background check on you while my partner speaks with the young lady in the truck.) Third, he should have been forthcoming in why he was asking Hiibel to move where he was directing (Sir, I'd feel safer if we put some distance between us and the road while we talk.)
Asking an officer relevant questions, especially a request for clarification of the current situation, is every persons right.
I believe the big worm from last year which you are refering to was MSBlaster, and the modified worm that was written to patch/remove it was Welchia.
Now I'm not condoning the use of a worm to remove another worm, but the real problem of Welchia is that it was poorly thought out. It brought down entire networks with it's ICMP traffic and attempts to download the DCOM RPC patch from Microsoft.
In theory, a well written worm could remove an existing infection and patch the affected computer, with a minimal and transient impact on the computer in question.
In practice, the removal worm is prone to crappy design (most likely due to a rushed timeline) and ends up being yet another problem.
The problem is that competition often does not result in the so-called cream rising to the top...
In fact, early adoption is often more important than merit in deciding the course of things to come - Microsoft is an ideal example.
I'm not saying that competition doesn't play an important role, but as I get older it seems to me that the role competition plays in advancement is not as important as many people seem to think.
If you look at life, all the higher life forms have more and more co-operation inherent within them.
If you look at the PC industry, great strides are rarely made without an industry accepted standard. Sometimes the industry leader will create the standard, but more often the industry leaders create it in a cooperative effort. Perhaps, in the absense of a clear leader, it's to everyone's best interest to be able to interoperate.
Cooperation is more important for the broader picture.
Well, the reason these manufacturers aren't making those kinds of robots is because they are working one something totally different - the development of coordinated movement in a humanoid frame.
There are people making mine disposal robots too (a very noble cause) - as a quick google will demonstrate
I suppose I could also point out that a few of the landmine-afflicted nations do not like doing business with Japan (e.g. Korea). Hence not much of a Japanese business opportunity.
Rollouts are expensive! The more things you change, the more expensive they get. Not only is there training to pay, both for users and techs (either that or you have to turn over staff too) but licencing and hardware.
Now, changing from MS Win9x -> NT products generally allows you to keep most of your hardware. Likewise for MS products - > Linux. The same isn't true for a switch to Apple. You switch both at the same time, or not at all.
To minimize training costs, OS rollouts tend to be company wide. The IT departments usually try to cut costs by performing hardware upgrades in conjunction to OS rollouts, but hardware actually gets replaced every year in most companies. I've been told it's financially smart to spread the cost of hardware out over the 3-5 year lifespan of the computer - replacing 20-30% of the computers each year. I'm not an accountant though...
There are a lot of other reasons for not dragging the rollout over the course of serveral years. Most imporant is this: it's disruptive and annoys users, who generally hate change, even if it's a minor stretch like moving from Win95 -> Win2K. It's a source of stress for them and that's bad for both moral and productivity.
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I think you are overlooking something important:
The loss of the laptop hardware is often peanuts compared to the value of data residing on its hard disk.
Filesystem encryption is a "good thing"...
We all know it's easy for cops to trump up charges. Thanks for clarifying where you stand on that issue.
First you seperate them. This he did. Then you question them. This he attempted. Unfortunately, he was not able to leave the father due to his combative and aggressive state.
I've watched the footage, and you are spin-doctoring it. First off, they were already seperated. Hiibel was outside the vehicle and moved to the tailgate when the officers pulled up. Mimi was in the truck. He did not approach the officers in anything close to a threatening manner. He was obviously agitated but arguing with a loved one tends to do that to a person.
The bare bones fact is the officers made mistake after mistake.
Face it, the officers were acting like blowhards. First off, the officer should have repeated what he was there for. Second, he should have been forthcoming in why he wanted the ID (I'm going to need your ID so I can do a routine background check on you while my partner speaks with the young lady in the truck.) Third, he should have been forthcoming in why he was asking Hiibel to move where he was directing (Sir, I'd feel safer if we put some distance between us and the road while we talk.)
Asking an officer relevant questions, especially a request for clarification of the current situation, is every persons right.
I believe the big worm from last year which you are refering to was MSBlaster, and the modified worm that was written to patch/remove it was Welchia.
Now I'm not condoning the use of a worm to remove another worm, but the real problem of Welchia is that it was poorly thought out. It brought down entire networks with it's ICMP traffic and attempts to download the DCOM RPC patch from Microsoft.
In theory, a well written worm could remove an existing infection and patch the affected computer, with a minimal and transient impact on the computer in question.
In practice, the removal worm is prone to crappy design (most likely due to a rushed timeline) and ends up being yet another problem.
The problem is that competition often does not result in the so-called cream rising to the top...
In fact, early adoption is often more important than merit in deciding the course of things to come - Microsoft is an ideal example.
I'm not saying that competition doesn't play an important role, but as I get older it seems to me that the role competition plays in advancement is not as important as many people seem to think.
If you look at life, all the higher life forms have more and more co-operation inherent within them.
If you look at the PC industry, great strides are rarely made without an industry accepted standard. Sometimes the industry leader will create the standard, but more often the industry leaders create it in a cooperative effort. Perhaps, in the absense of a clear leader, it's to everyone's best interest to be able to interoperate.
Cooperation is more important for the broader picture.
Well, the reason these manufacturers aren't making those kinds of robots is because they are working one something totally different - the development of coordinated movement in a humanoid frame.
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There are people making mine disposal robots too (a very noble cause) - as a quick google will demonstrate
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I suppose I could also point out that a few of the landmine-afflicted nations do not like doing business with Japan (e.g. Korea). Hence not much of a Japanese business opportunity.
though a few people have brushed the topic:
Rollouts are expensive! The more things you change, the more expensive they get. Not only is there training to pay, both for users and techs (either that or you have to turn over staff too) but licencing and hardware.
Now, changing from MS Win9x -> NT products generally allows you to keep most of your hardware. Likewise for MS products - > Linux. The same isn't true for a switch to Apple. You switch both at the same time, or not at all.
To minimize training costs, OS rollouts tend to be company wide. The IT departments usually try to cut costs by performing hardware upgrades in conjunction to OS rollouts, but hardware actually gets replaced every year in most companies. I've been told it's financially smart to spread the cost of hardware out over the 3-5 year lifespan of the computer - replacing 20-30% of the computers each year. I'm not an accountant though...
There are a lot of other reasons for not dragging the rollout over the course of serveral years. Most imporant is this: it's disruptive and annoys users, who generally hate change, even if it's a minor stretch like moving from Win95 -> Win2K. It's a source of stress for them and that's bad for both moral and productivity.