Maybe you can explain how Watergate is relevant to lying about your education. If somebody could make that connection, I wouldn't object too much to the application of the -gate.
There was a time when they were more focused on building their user base than (immediate) profits. They knew the network would only gain financial value when it had enough users to monetize, which it now does.
Hahaha! There will never be a social network that "cares about its users" more than it cares about money. Unless it's founded by the FOSS movement. How many people are using Diaspora again?
But the FOSS movement cares more about ideology than users...
If he refused to answer questions, that would not have created probable cause to arrest him. Talking to them can often lead to giving contradictory answers or lead to appearing nervous during questioning. Those things CAN be regarded as probable cause for a search or arrest. Legally, he'd have been on better ground if he had refused to answer questions beyond identifying himself and providing license and registration and just asked them if he was free to go.
I don't think that driving on a highway while having something in your car that emits low levels of radiation amounts to reasonable suspicion. There are just too many legitimate ways for people and their effects to emit low level radiation. One of the most common being nuclear medicine patients.
But there are lots of others. He could have had scientific samples, smoke detectors, etc.
The criminal reasons why he might be emitting are: he might be a terrorist, he might be ignoring the laws that regulate transportation of hot nuclear materials.
But the former are so much more likely than the latter that absent some other information it isn't reasonable to suspect anything. Now, if the police had recently been warned of a possible terror cell in their area that might be planning a dirty bomb, then yeah, it would amount to reasonable suspicion. And it's possible but I know of no reason to believe that the police had such information. If they did, they might well keep mum about that.
If his doctor subjected him to an amount of radiation that made him a hazard to others, the police would have been investigating why a car with a dead radioactive man was found by the side of the road.
If you have a broken tail light, you are BREAKING A LAW that says you must have properly functioning lights on your car. A cop can issue you a ticked for th
If you are driving while irradiated YOU ARE NOT BREAKING A LAW any more than you would be if you were driving while black.
fact, this is one of the capabilities that the Olympic Committee should specifically look for. The ability of a city to dynamically change its traffic lights and alter traffic flow to deal with a special situation is an important one in a city hosting an major event like this. It means that if they manage it properly, they can reduce congestion around the site, get atheletes and fans in and out quicker and have a better chance of having everything go on schedule. It's also a safety issue. If there are emergencies (and there always are when you have that many people in one place) you can get emergency vehicles in and out quickly.
London can probably do this better than most cities in the world because of its Big Brother system of pervasive security cameras. The cameras can be used for good, too, if they use them to reduce traffic congestion, detect that the crowd is starting to leave the event so they can begin adapting the traffic flow before people even leave the parking lot, etc.
That's kind of the point. Police acting normally includes stopping people on the highway and questioning them when there's no evidence of a crime having been committed.
What are they going to net in a sweep like this? Mostly patients like the above and delivery trucks with boxes of smoke detectors or lantern gas mantles. Maybe a few scientists.
I don't think they could raise a billion dollars for that. To grab the interest of investors/suckers, you need to come up with something grandiose like building a whole city with no people in it.
But don't worry. If you build it, they will come. I think that's part of their rationale.
If you really want to keep your communications from the FBI, you can still always use a third-party local, secure ecryption system that the government can't easily crack. So they'll end up knowing anything they want to know about the people who don't think they have anything worth hiding from the government and NOTHING about whatever communications you choose to hide from their scrutiny. Well, they might know when it occured and maybe with whom, but they won't be able to crack the content. And if enough people object to their prying eyes, they'll find that they've driven most communications to use an ecryption method that neither they nor their proxies can crack in any reasonable time, so there will be a huge volume of "suspect" data: so much that they can't tell the difference between routine chats between business partners and chats between members of a terrorist cell discussing their evil schemes.
I have some bad news for you. If you're in your early 40's, you're not looking for a late career boost because you should be considering yourself mid-career.
If you work until your expected retirement age, that will be until your LATE 60s. You're half way there at best.
But there's some good news too. If it takes you 2 to 4 years to get your degree, you'll have 20 years of work ahead of you over which to make it pay.
But there's some more bad news for you. You're likely to have to change careers again sometime in that 20 years, because nobody knows what kind of jobs will be available 20 years from now.
Unless you're in government. There will always be government.
The value of a human writer over the dumping of raw data is that the writer, you hope, had taken the time to understand what the facts mean, how they might affect you and what is more or less important among the facts. Also, what "facts" are controversial or just too fanciful to be credited at all.
I would expect an automated report to have perfect grammar and to relate whatever facts were input, but be devoid of any insight and to have confusing presentation of material and ambiguous statements.
Oracle is out exactly nothing because of Google's infringement. Google's benefit from using that code instead of rolling their own -- and they clearly intended to roll their own -- was less than an hour of a competent programmers time. So the benefit to Google was at most $200.
Copyright law is not intended to protect a few lines of code. It's intended to protect the ownership and merchantability of a significant body of work.
Let's hope they award Oracle what they ACTUALLY LOST by Google's mistake.
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If the same thing happened again, they'd call it Conventiongate.
Maybe you can explain how Watergate is relevant to lying about your education. If somebody could make that connection, I wouldn't object too much to the application of the -gate.
There was a time when they were more focused on building their user base than (immediate) profits. They knew the network would only gain financial value when it had enough users to monetize, which it now does.
Hahaha! There will never be a social network that "cares about its users" more than it cares about money. Unless it's founded by the FOSS movement. How many people are using Diaspora again?
But the FOSS movement cares more about ideology than users...
If he refused to answer questions, that would not have created probable cause to arrest him. Talking to them can often lead to giving contradictory answers or lead to appearing nervous during questioning. Those things CAN be regarded as probable cause for a search or arrest. Legally, he'd have been on better ground if he had refused to answer questions beyond identifying himself and providing license and registration and just asked them if he was free to go.
I don't think that driving on a highway while having something in your car that emits low levels of radiation amounts to reasonable suspicion. There are just too many legitimate ways for people and their effects to emit low level radiation. One of the most common being nuclear medicine patients.
But there are lots of others. He could have had scientific samples, smoke detectors, etc.
The criminal reasons why he might be emitting are: he might be a terrorist, he might be ignoring the laws that regulate transportation of hot nuclear materials.
But the former are so much more likely than the latter that absent some other information it isn't reasonable to suspect anything. Now, if the police had recently been warned of a possible terror cell in their area that might be planning a dirty bomb, then yeah, it would amount to reasonable suspicion. And it's possible but I know of no reason to believe that the police had such information. If they did, they might well keep mum about that.
Jesus effing Christ! The man was DRIVING A CAR not SNEAKING AROUND BEHIND A BUILDING.
Not that many nines, but yes.
If his doctor subjected him to an amount of radiation that made him a hazard to others, the police would have been investigating why a car with a dead radioactive man was found by the side of the road.
If you have a broken tail light, you are BREAKING A LAW that says you must have properly functioning lights on your car. A cop can issue you a ticked for th
If you are driving while irradiated YOU ARE NOT BREAKING A LAW any more than you would be if you were driving while black.
I consider this fair play.
fact, this is one of the capabilities that the Olympic Committee should specifically look for. The ability of a city to dynamically change its traffic lights and alter traffic flow to deal with a special situation is an important one in a city hosting an major event like this. It means that if they manage it properly, they can reduce congestion around the site, get atheletes and fans in and out quicker and have a better chance of having everything go on schedule. It's also a safety issue. If there are emergencies (and there always are when you have that many people in one place) you can get emergency vehicles in and out quickly.
London can probably do this better than most cities in the world because of its Big Brother system of pervasive security cameras. The cameras can be used for good, too, if they use them to reduce traffic congestion, detect that the crowd is starting to leave the event so they can begin adapting the traffic flow before people even leave the parking lot, etc.
That's kind of the point. Police acting normally includes stopping people on the highway and questioning them when there's no evidence of a crime having been committed.
What are they going to net in a sweep like this? Mostly patients like the above and delivery trucks with boxes of smoke detectors or lantern gas mantles. Maybe a few scientists.
Government?
They're planning on buying empty land and selling a whole fucking city. Selling a computer simulation won't generate as much profit.
I don't think they could raise a billion dollars for that. To grab the interest of investors/suckers, you need to come up with something grandiose like building a whole city with no people in it.
But don't worry. If you build it, they will come. I think that's part of their rationale.
Al-Qaida will probably be selling cheap knockoffs to raise money.
Did you miss the part where I said he would likely have to CHANGE careers?
They're getting paid. Facebook replaces messaging because people are using it through their smart phone. So they're paying for data plans.
They should get worried if people stop buying data plans.
If you really want to keep your communications from the FBI, you can still always use a third-party local, secure ecryption system that the government can't easily crack. So they'll end up knowing anything they want to know about the people who don't think they have anything worth hiding from the government and NOTHING about whatever communications you choose to hide from their scrutiny. Well, they might know when it occured and maybe with whom, but they won't be able to crack the content. And if enough people object to their prying eyes, they'll find that they've driven most communications to use an ecryption method that neither they nor their proxies can crack in any reasonable time, so there will be a huge volume of "suspect" data: so much that they can't tell the difference between routine chats between business partners and chats between members of a terrorist cell discussing their evil schemes.
I have some bad news for you. If you're in your early 40's, you're not looking for a late career boost because you should be considering yourself mid-career.
If you work until your expected retirement age, that will be until your LATE 60s. You're half way there at best.
But there's some good news too. If it takes you 2 to 4 years to get your degree, you'll have 20 years of work ahead of you over which to make it pay.
But there's some more bad news for you. You're likely to have to change careers again sometime in that 20 years, because nobody knows what kind of jobs will be available 20 years from now.
Unless you're in government. There will always be government.
No, it doesn't if you consider inflation.
Could be an opportunity for a concession.
The value of a human writer over the dumping of raw data is that the writer, you hope, had taken the time to understand what the facts mean, how they might affect you and what is more or less important among the facts. Also, what "facts" are controversial or just too fanciful to be credited at all.
I would expect an automated report to have perfect grammar and to relate whatever facts were input, but be devoid of any insight and to have confusing presentation of material and ambiguous statements.
If it's true it should.
Oracle is out exactly nothing because of Google's infringement. Google's benefit from using that code instead of rolling their own -- and they clearly intended to roll their own -- was less than an hour of a competent programmers time. So the benefit to Google was at most $200.
Copyright law is not intended to protect a few lines of code. It's intended to protect the ownership and merchantability of a significant body of work.
Let's hope they award Oracle what they ACTUALLY LOST by Google's mistake.