This is what I found - http://saizai.com/tsa_rights.pdf - it's a "cheat sheet" of what is legally permissible.
Though I haven't been in a situation with TSA like that, I have had (on two separate occasions) doctors "spring" invasive medical exams on me during follow-up visits (a biopsy for a first-time abnormal test result, when standard procedure is three abnormal results... someone wants to charge my insurance company exorbitant lab fees...) and while I have the cojones to tell my doctor he can shove it because I -know- he's doing something wrong, most teenage girls don't (I WAS a teenage girl going through TSA and it IS intimidating). It's tragic, and her little crusade for education is fine, but it doesn't scrape the real issue - which is, of course, daily violations of people's privacy. As Ben said... "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
If you read the article, I'm not sure "forced" is the right word. What I gathered from, "When someone in a position of authority tells you it is - you think that its right. So, I said, Are you sure I can go through with the pump? It's not going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you're fine." (direct quote from article) is that this was a case of a TSA employee being an idiot, not a TSA employee getting handsy. Not that it's right (it's not) but she allowed them to put her through the body scanner because she didn't want to argue with the security personnel about whether it would damage her machine. I can see why she wouldn't want to argue, but STILL. Forced makes it sound a little uglier than it is.
Having worked on a political campaign.... It's getting more and more difficult to keep the "nastygrams" away from the candidate and his/her family these days. When you're on the trail especially, it's important to make sure that (a) your candidate stays focused and (b) your candidate's family and friends know that lashing out against these attacks makes the candidate look worse. It's hard to do that when everybody's Facebooking away at home with private accounts (and fake accounts... sigh...) - suffice to say, if any politician reacts like that to something so petty on Facebook, what other unreasonable reactions will s/he have?
$0.02 - Nikolic needs a better campaign manager, if s/he is letting him do this kind of crazy shit.
What do you expect from a country with CCTV on every corner? I wonder who (generally or specifically) the paranoia can be attributed to. That was a question, fellow/.ers, despite the lack of appropriate punctuation.
Posting as AC? How brave. It's not moaning about how I am "some special oppressed class" because I'm not. I'm in the top percentile and I always have been, because of my parents. These grants are put in place because many parents are unwilling or unable to push their children, particularly female children, or to teach them to love equations and problem solving, and teachers don't always do it either. It is to encourage women who were never taught as children to pursue the things that were "unfeminine" as adults, because CHILDREN do what they are taught, and grow into adults who don't know any better.
Not to be rude, because I really make an effort not to be rude on here, but I call bullshit on this. I feel like you are speaking out about your personal life/issues/whatever rather than any objective "truth" about the world. Having been in relationships and observed relationships, studied both the social sciences and the technical sciences, you're referring to a marginally antiquated and very narrow sphere of human relationships. There are plenty of men who make "inside" the residence their space and plenty of women who work while their men take care of the house and children. And in many, one would hope most, relationships, everything is of equal give-and-take. As for sexual rejection, men are just as capable as women of rejecting another's advances, and we feel the same shame and confusion, particularly when the rejected advance was to our significant other. Just because you see it on tv and have experienced it yourself (maybe) doesn't make it so. I don't have time to argue with each of your points, and I DO think that your feelings are valid and your opinion is of value, but I feel like you are making generalizations based on subjective information.
London and Atlanta are two different metropolitan animals entirely.
Atlanta: Population (2010)
City 420,003
Density 3,190/sq mi (1,232/km2)
Urban 4,750,000
Urban density 2,420/sq mi (935/km2)
Metro 5,268,860 (9th)
Metro density 630/sq mi (243/km2)
London
Population (July 2010 est.)[2]
London 7,825,200
Density 4,978/km2 (12,892/sq mi)
Urban 8,278,251
Metro 13,709,000
Then take into account all the land around Atlanta... and all the land around London.
Plus, it's totally fun to live at work! If you've ever worked a campaign, you know this!
I wish you would all read the article. The reason they're offering this specifically to women is to INCREASE female applicants to the Hacker School - less than 5% of applicants in some rounds were from women, and GUESS WHAT - as a woman working in IT, I can tell you that I was NEVER encouraged to take computer classes and had several teachers discourage me from it. I was given pats on the head my whole life and because of my parents, it pissed me off enough to get to where I am today, but plenty of my peers didn't have amazing, supportive parents like mine and were never encouraged to excel in math, science or technology.
Say what you want, but until you've grown up with a vagina and been told "that class isn't for you, dear" you need to really consider what you're saying about females in education. There IS a reason women are targeted for grants like this, and it's because when you get down to it, little girls are not encouraged to be scientists, programmers and physicists. A trip to the girl's toys section of walmart should be proof enough of that.
"The flash card wouldn't do anything on the switch itself but "reuse of an infected compact flash card in a personal computer could result in a compromise of that system's integrity," HP warned in a bulletin issued on Tuesday." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/11/hp_ships_malware_cards_with_switches_oops/ I think is a LOT more concise and explanatory of the issue.
The lack of detail regarding the malware (I keep typing maleware for some reason?) makes me want to jump to conclusions. The most fun one has to do with a bored programming intern and pornography, the least interesting is "they screwed something up and are blaming it on someone else."
Sure it is. In my experience - as in, among the people I know - the ones who talk about how awesome their phone/tablet/etc is... are Apple users. I know some people who really like their Android phones, but none who get so pushy about how great their phones are as the iPhone users I know. Just by my experience.
And also, when referencing my above post, you should know that I don't own a single gadget with an Android or Apple OS on it. I've used both, I keep both in mind when finishing products at work, but I am not a user (of any smartphone - because my cell phone is for calls and texts, and my computer is for everything else).
The only Apple users who are idiots are the ones who spend money that they don't have on stuff that they don't need in order to "keep up with the Joneses."
The problem is, it isn't isolated idiots. I have friends who are not "idiots" who are genuinely offended that "their" app is now available for use by people with Android phones. It's an Apple elitism that I, for one, refuse to be a part of. Some of my favorite tech bloggers swear by Apple (one even worked for them) and I don't hold it against them that they enjoy using and having the products, nor do I engage them in arguments/discussions about why I don't buy Apple products. The day that I absolutely need a Powerbook, iMac, iPod, iPhone, or iDon'tKnowWhatElse, is the day that I'll buy one, and not a moment sooner. Generally speaking, the people who use Apple products because they need them and not because of the Apple Cult of Personality are the ones who are the isolated (non-idiots) who don't think that they're better than everyone else because they spent half their paycheck on what amounts (for most people, again not including the class of people I am currently referring to) to a toy.
There are so many reasons I avoid Apple products (#1 being, I don't actually NEED a graphic design/video editing/print layout computer or other iGadget) and this has just been added to the list right underneath the idolatry thing.
I wasn't implying anything. At some point, human error will be removed from the equation; it probably won't be in my lifetime, and the removal will probably be more along the lines of "reduced to a negligible amount" - maybe I read too much science fiction, maybe I read too much science fact, but I do mean technological singularity, and I do think that the path winds hence.
You're right. I'm assuming (and we all know what that means...) that when Google applied for the patent they did so with the intent of receiving the patent (properly, with schematics and specific detail), rather than as a way to keep other companies from working on the tech.
With an autopilot system in a car (assumedly controlled by GPS and googlemaps, of course) and considering all the fancy gadgetry in new cars to prevent collisions, the speed limits should increase significantly. I mean, how many accidents will occur once human error is removed from the equation?
If they're applying for a patent, it means that they must have some sufficiently viable method of producing the tech. The "limited amount of control over nearby vehicles" sounds the most ominous, considering the inability of a percentage of law enforcement to not abuse their powers. I smell the singularity brewing inside the Googleplex....
Every game that you love is going to have a disappointing ending, because it is... an ending. Regardless of what you accomplished, it means that there's no more. Just like with books that you love, especially series - anyone read The Wheel of Time series? Anyone else cry when Rigney (Robert Jordan) died? It's because you know that even though he got Brandon Sanderson to finish it, it's not the same, and it never will be. THAT is a disappointing ending.
It's terrible that Bioware did what they did. The determinism of it is moot - I keep hearing about this "god card" that was pulled and that's BS - a "god card" and true deterministic ending would mean that you'd have NO choice at the end and the result would be based on your previous actions BUT I'M SPLITTING HAIRS. The ending sucked. Everyone's made such a big deal about it. But was there really a way to end it without pissing everyone off? And all the loud noises that everyone is making... is there REALLY anything that can be done to please everyone at this point in the game? The real sin was making people feel that even if they played it through again, they'd get the same ending no matter what. An offense that will ultimately cost Bioware money... but not something that you can slap a bandaid on or make a DLC for.
Cancer is induced in lab animals by injecting chemical compounds. I presume that they inject directly into whatever organ they want to study (prostate, liver, etc).
Unregulated cellular grown due to genetic abnormality/mutation (cancer) - is differentiated based on location and a slew of other things. Apparently, when your cells are mutating, you can lose an entire chromosome. Neat, huh? So it's just killing all the mutated genes and hoping that no more mutate. Leads me to believe that almost any environmentally-obtained cancer can be studied/treated/cured/whatever by this particular class of treatment, but those who get cancer from their intrinsic qualities (genetically, I mean) are screwed in terms of this type of treatment and will have to wait for advancements in gene therapy.
I wonder where they find animals with prostate cancer. Is there a farm/factory where rats with prostate cancer are produced? Do they inject cancer cells into the rats/dogs/pigs/whatever to simulate cancer? If so, how can anyone be sure that artificially induced cancer will react the same as homegrown cancer? Next Dear Google, I think.
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This is what I found - http://saizai.com/tsa_rights.pdf - it's a "cheat sheet" of what is legally permissible. Though I haven't been in a situation with TSA like that, I have had (on two separate occasions) doctors "spring" invasive medical exams on me during follow-up visits (a biopsy for a first-time abnormal test result, when standard procedure is three abnormal results... someone wants to charge my insurance company exorbitant lab fees...) and while I have the cojones to tell my doctor he can shove it because I -know- he's doing something wrong, most teenage girls don't (I WAS a teenage girl going through TSA and it IS intimidating). It's tragic, and her little crusade for education is fine, but it doesn't scrape the real issue - which is, of course, daily violations of people's privacy. As Ben said... "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
If you read the article, I'm not sure "forced" is the right word. What I gathered from, "When someone in a position of authority tells you it is - you think that its right. So, I said, Are you sure I can go through with the pump? It's not going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you're fine." (direct quote from article) is that this was a case of a TSA employee being an idiot, not a TSA employee getting handsy. Not that it's right (it's not) but she allowed them to put her through the body scanner because she didn't want to argue with the security personnel about whether it would damage her machine. I can see why she wouldn't want to argue, but STILL. Forced makes it sound a little uglier than it is.
$0.02 - Nikolic needs a better campaign manager, if s/he is letting him do this kind of crazy shit.
What do you expect from a country with CCTV on every corner? I wonder who (generally or specifically) the paranoia can be attributed to. That was a question, fellow /.ers, despite the lack of appropriate punctuation.
Posting as AC? How brave. It's not moaning about how I am "some special oppressed class" because I'm not. I'm in the top percentile and I always have been, because of my parents. These grants are put in place because many parents are unwilling or unable to push their children, particularly female children, or to teach them to love equations and problem solving, and teachers don't always do it either. It is to encourage women who were never taught as children to pursue the things that were "unfeminine" as adults, because CHILDREN do what they are taught, and grow into adults who don't know any better.
I should have added a ~ to the end of that statement, huh?
Not to be rude, because I really make an effort not to be rude on here, but I call bullshit on this. I feel like you are speaking out about your personal life/issues/whatever rather than any objective "truth" about the world. Having been in relationships and observed relationships, studied both the social sciences and the technical sciences, you're referring to a marginally antiquated and very narrow sphere of human relationships. There are plenty of men who make "inside" the residence their space and plenty of women who work while their men take care of the house and children. And in many, one would hope most, relationships, everything is of equal give-and-take. As for sexual rejection, men are just as capable as women of rejecting another's advances, and we feel the same shame and confusion, particularly when the rejected advance was to our significant other. Just because you see it on tv and have experienced it yourself (maybe) doesn't make it so. I don't have time to argue with each of your points, and I DO think that your feelings are valid and your opinion is of value, but I feel like you are making generalizations based on subjective information.
Atlanta: Population (2010)
City 420,003
Density 3,190/sq mi (1,232/km2)
Urban 4,750,000
Urban density 2,420/sq mi (935/km2)
Metro 5,268,860 (9th)
Metro density 630/sq mi (243/km2)
London
Population (July 2010 est.)[2]
London 7,825,200
Density 4,978/km2 (12,892/sq mi)
Urban 8,278,251
Metro 13,709,000
Then take into account all the land around Atlanta... and all the land around London. Plus, it's totally fun to live at work! If you've ever worked a campaign, you know this!
I wish you would all read the article. The reason they're offering this specifically to women is to INCREASE female applicants to the Hacker School - less than 5% of applicants in some rounds were from women, and GUESS WHAT - as a woman working in IT, I can tell you that I was NEVER encouraged to take computer classes and had several teachers discourage me from it. I was given pats on the head my whole life and because of my parents, it pissed me off enough to get to where I am today, but plenty of my peers didn't have amazing, supportive parents like mine and were never encouraged to excel in math, science or technology. Say what you want, but until you've grown up with a vagina and been told "that class isn't for you, dear" you need to really consider what you're saying about females in education. There IS a reason women are targeted for grants like this, and it's because when you get down to it, little girls are not encouraged to be scientists, programmers and physicists. A trip to the girl's toys section of walmart should be proof enough of that.
I cannot foresee a way to prevent people from stealing these. I mean, I know it sounds silly, but renters steal light fixtures, for crying out loud.
"The flash card wouldn't do anything on the switch itself but "reuse of an infected compact flash card in a personal computer could result in a compromise of that system's integrity," HP warned in a bulletin issued on Tuesday." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/11/hp_ships_malware_cards_with_switches_oops/ I think is a LOT more concise and explanatory of the issue.
The lack of detail regarding the malware (I keep typing maleware for some reason?) makes me want to jump to conclusions. The most fun one has to do with a bored programming intern and pornography, the least interesting is "they screwed something up and are blaming it on someone else."
Sure it is. In my experience - as in, among the people I know - the ones who talk about how awesome their phone/tablet/etc is... are Apple users. I know some people who really like their Android phones, but none who get so pushy about how great their phones are as the iPhone users I know. Just by my experience.
And also, when referencing my above post, you should know that I don't own a single gadget with an Android or Apple OS on it. I've used both, I keep both in mind when finishing products at work, but I am not a user (of any smartphone - because my cell phone is for calls and texts, and my computer is for everything else).
The only Apple users who are idiots are the ones who spend money that they don't have on stuff that they don't need in order to "keep up with the Joneses."
The problem is, it isn't isolated idiots. I have friends who are not "idiots" who are genuinely offended that "their" app is now available for use by people with Android phones. It's an Apple elitism that I, for one, refuse to be a part of. Some of my favorite tech bloggers swear by Apple (one even worked for them) and I don't hold it against them that they enjoy using and having the products, nor do I engage them in arguments/discussions about why I don't buy Apple products. The day that I absolutely need a Powerbook, iMac, iPod, iPhone, or iDon'tKnowWhatElse, is the day that I'll buy one, and not a moment sooner. Generally speaking, the people who use Apple products because they need them and not because of the Apple Cult of Personality are the ones who are the isolated (non-idiots) who don't think that they're better than everyone else because they spent half their paycheck on what amounts (for most people, again not including the class of people I am currently referring to) to a toy.
There are so many reasons I avoid Apple products (#1 being, I don't actually NEED a graphic design/video editing/print layout computer or other iGadget) and this has just been added to the list right underneath the idolatry thing.
This article explains some of the theories related to why food tastes different in microgravity.
When you say "coupons" I hear "pushy advertisements."
It'll be neat, right?
You're right. I'm assuming (and we all know what that means...) that when Google applied for the patent they did so with the intent of receiving the patent (properly, with schematics and specific detail), rather than as a way to keep other companies from working on the tech.
With an autopilot system in a car (assumedly controlled by GPS and googlemaps, of course) and considering all the fancy gadgetry in new cars to prevent collisions, the speed limits should increase significantly. I mean, how many accidents will occur once human error is removed from the equation?
If they're applying for a patent, it means that they must have some sufficiently viable method of producing the tech. The "limited amount of control over nearby vehicles" sounds the most ominous, considering the inability of a percentage of law enforcement to not abuse their powers. I smell the singularity brewing inside the Googleplex....
It's terrible that Bioware did what they did. The determinism of it is moot - I keep hearing about this "god card" that was pulled and that's BS - a "god card" and true deterministic ending would mean that you'd have NO choice at the end and the result would be based on your previous actions BUT I'M SPLITTING HAIRS. The ending sucked. Everyone's made such a big deal about it. But was there really a way to end it without pissing everyone off? And all the loud noises that everyone is making... is there REALLY anything that can be done to please everyone at this point in the game? The real sin was making people feel that even if they played it through again, they'd get the same ending no matter what. An offense that will ultimately cost Bioware money... but not something that you can slap a bandaid on or make a DLC for.
:O You're right! That came out horribly, didn't it?
Cancer is induced in lab animals by injecting chemical compounds. I presume that they inject directly into whatever organ they want to study (prostate, liver, etc).
Unregulated cellular grown due to genetic abnormality/mutation (cancer) - is differentiated based on location and a slew of other things. Apparently, when your cells are mutating, you can lose an entire chromosome. Neat, huh? So it's just killing all the mutated genes and hoping that no more mutate. Leads me to believe that almost any environmentally-obtained cancer can be studied/treated/cured/whatever by this particular class of treatment, but those who get cancer from their intrinsic qualities (genetically, I mean) are screwed in terms of this type of treatment and will have to wait for advancements in gene therapy.
I wonder where they find animals with prostate cancer. Is there a farm/factory where rats with prostate cancer are produced? Do they inject cancer cells into the rats/dogs/pigs/whatever to simulate cancer? If so, how can anyone be sure that artificially induced cancer will react the same as homegrown cancer? Next Dear Google, I think.