Beware getting actual "news" from this site - it can point you in the right direction, but Drudge has an agenda (just like nearly ALL other online news sources). Use it as a starting point, but try to verify something with several sources that you consider reputable before accepting something that you read online or at Drudge's website.
"public places" - define that please. Suppose you live in an apartment. Is your hallway in the building a public place? Very likely. Might you still expect a modicum of privacy there? Very likely. Do you expect your employer to not watch you shit while you're on the toilet? Why? It's a public place (your employer owns the building and there may be other people present). Additionally, your employer even has a vested interest in knowing that your shit is fine - it's an indication of your overall health. Can you see any parallel whatsoever here, or are you that thick-headed? A vested interest does not validate constant surveillance.
There is a false dichotomy between private and public spaces. Putting cameras in all areas to see everything removes any sense that though you're in public, you may have some degree of privacy through anonymity. Increasingly, there is no such thing as a truly private place and Chicago is about to lose a lot more of them.
Will it cut crime? Who knows. Do drug laws cut drug use? Sometimes the "solution" to a problem is a solution to another one entirely. Let's not kid ourselves - these cameras will probably work for a time, and then there'll be a nice camera network for use as a domestic spying tool. Don't believe me? Just wait and see.
Tell you what: let's have the city put cameras everywhere, including in your bathroom and bedroom. Then criminals are sure to never break-in or bother you in any way. Do you see the obvious problem with a system that seeks to eliminate all crime through total surveillance?
You jest, but why is this such a bad idea. I have no plans of buying this adulterated version of the trilogy. I could reconsider, however: DVD is a versatile enough medium that Lucas could really make it an option to view the original theatrical release (cleaned-up and digitized, of course) or the re-release with ridiculous aliens and dumb slapstick CGI which also includes Han and Greedo both shooting.
It's only a small number of scenes that were changed by Lucas for the re-release, and now he's just changed one more. Give me the option to turn his retrospect off and watch the movies like I've always watched them. Don't make me dust off my VHS copies!
Citing a letter to the editor at the Arizona Daily Wildcat? I go to the UofA - the letters to the editor can't be used to back ANY position. They're often inflamatory polemics on whatever subject the handful of activist writers gets worked up about on any given day. Come on. I don't care what you're trying to prove. This entire conversation is about wikipedia not being authoritative. The daily wildcat proves something? Uh huh...
Well, this really isn't all that different from the way it is now. I had a physics professor my freshman year of college who would be called out several times a year to do post-accident investigations. From skid marks, impact directions, etc. he could put together all the pieces of data that the police (and the court) cared about. He could tell within a 5% certainty (he was proud of that figure) how fast both cars were going prior to the accident and any other phyiscally evident factors which led to the accident.
So what if the black box records my speed for accident investigation? It might mean no more consulting for my former professor, but it's not like the data isn't available right now anyway without black boxes.
Actually I dated one of them for several months. That wasn't the point of getting to know them. You don't talk to girls simply because there's a chance you might date them. College girls tend to bring something to you that you're lacking - maybe it's positive social atmosphere, a clean apartment, a well-cooked meal, interesting conversation, etc. Even if I had ended up "wrong ladder" with each one of the girls, wasn't it worth the small effort to be nice just to expand my social circle a bit with truly nice people?
As for the whole wrong ladder thing, like I said, I dated one of them for quite a while. I do think the whole wrong ladder thing (I've heard it several times before) may have application, but it IS just a theory that sometimes explains behavior and social situations. It clearly doesn't always fit.
I have to say, I was able to easily make good friends with quite a few nice girls in my dorm by offering my services to hook up their computers and get them working. It's a combination of being dorky and just being a nice person that really impresses people, I think. The upside is that anytime they had another computer problem, guess who they called down to fix it? I fixed any problem they could come up with for just some pizza, but the real price I was charging was their company. Get to know people - the dorms are where the college social life starts. Enjoy it while you can before they kick you out and you have to live in a crappy college apartment way off campus.
What I find most interesting is that there is quite likely a way to turn off the activation in XP without using a corporate edition (no, I would never do that, I just know SOME people might)...
I wonder what the result would be if someone could simply turn off product activation via MS's native method...
That's because, like every good webmaster with limited bandwidth, gotfuturama blocks slashdot referrals. Try copying the link and requesting it directly - nice site.
Replace "peasants" with middle class (a large and growing group in modern China) and the statement makes far more sense. I was using "peasants" in a historical sense versus a literal sense.
The Chinese middle class will be the ultimate catalyst for change in their own country.
My point stands, however, that we have little to envy China for and there is no need for Sino-American rivalry that outdoes any other Olympic rivalry.
The Cold War is over and the press is despairing. Have you noticed the new emphasis in the (US) press about the competition between China and the US in these Olympics? Apparently, they realized as you did that there's no East vs. West rivalry anymore and they're trying to push this rivalry on us in order to gain ratings.
I feel no competition with China. If history proves anything, it's that repressive regimes eventually fail as peasants revolt. Back to my point, no one I know feels any real rivalry with China - there's just no reason to. NBC and co is spinning the coverage so that it appears there's a huge rivalry and they're trying to instill the rivalry in the viewing public. If you ask me, they want better ratings in '08 and are working on it now.
Well, if it makes you feel better, the 50,000 Watt broadcast antenna near you doesn't use 50,000 Watts of electricity to broadcast that signal... See: Wikipedia
Why is it hard to buy enough recorders? Simple. It's because they're using Pocket PCs running their custom software. It seems overly complicated for something that could be accomplished with a hardware recorder and later parsing via software. Why distribute a handful of expensive recorders when you can distribute many cheaper recorders? Academia confuses me sometimes - the objectives seem much less spectacular than the methods proposed to reach such objectives.
To see what I'm talking about, check out the newest model of their EAR at the bottom of the page.
It's becoming harder and harder for me to believe this is the country I live in. America is supposed to stand for individual freedoms and liberty. We're supposed to be the "melting pot" accepting all immigrants (with reasonable quotas) with open arms.
I tell you, if you watch the new Manchurian Candidate, you see some of what really bothers me. The back-story, if you will, is full of national events that are on the verge of actually occurring. Armed army units patrolling streets, every monument in DC guarded, etc. These things really really bother me and make me wonder where the America I know has gone.
The president controls federal troops in the US as well as abroad. The Posse Commitatus act is a good law. I wish it was still upheld. A war on an ethereal enemy gives the president an opportunity to corrupt the constitution and gain unreasonable powers. When are americans going to get their heads out of their butts, stop being afraid of their own shadows, and hold elected officials responsible to the Constitution?
And of course Sheriff Joe killed him. Get with the program man, I was detailing his policies as they compare with other sheriff's offices aross the country. I don't defend him (in fact I think tent cities reek of human rights violations.
I do think that some of his policies make sense and some don't. That's all I said in the post. Also, who killed him? The OFFICE settled the case, not the sheriff personally (he didn't kill him, though the office settled to avoid being found culpable in a civil suit). No cable TV and having to do work is all I was talking about. Re-read my original post to see I didn't defend Sheriff Joe personally, even. Just some of his policies make sense to me.
Well, certainly there's a happy medium where the desire of the people to not "pamper" inmates can be satisfied while treating prisoners in a humane manner.
I never thought criminals should have cable television and weight rooms. It's prison. The accomodations should meet at least minimal humanitarian guidelines for size and accomodations. Prisoners should be allowed to read, educate themselves and develop job skills. After all, they'll be released into society after their term is up, and as a society we have a commitment to them to make sure they have had the opportunity to prepare themselves for the job market.
Additionally, in some jurisdictions (Maricopa county is one such), prisoners are required to perform menial, physical labor. The argument is that it redirects inmate energy to working rather than fighting etc.
What has sheriff Joe done? Well, the prisons are NOT comfy places with cable TV and weight rooms. The problem of constructing costly jails is remedied through his use of tents and cots. Presumably (and I have no knowlede either way on this one), prisoners are allowed to educate themselves and build career skills for after their release. The argument about whether his treatment of inmates has actually cut crime will take some time and statistical studies to work out.
What hasn't he done well? The tent-cities are really hot and he got overturned on using web-cams in the prison. Additionally, prisoners perform manual labor tasks.
Weighing the pros and cons for Sheriff Arpaio, it sounds like he's probably at least on average for most sheriffs around the country. At least he's shaking up the status quo and trying new ideas. Some are good and some are bad. The bad will go the way of the dinosaurs (through lawsuits and future policy decision), and the good may well spread to the rest of the country. All in all, not a terrible sheriff.
Does that mean he'll be re-elected or that he was RIGHT to put cameras in the prisons in the first place? Not necessarily, but he sounds like a sheriff that is at least making sincere efforts at doing his job well.
Well, certainly there's a happy medium where the desire of the people to not "pamper" inmates can be satisfied while treating prisoners in a humane manner.
I never thought criminals should have cable television and weight rooms. It's prison. The accomodations should meet at least minimal humanitarian guidelines for size and accomodations. Prisoners should be allowed to read, educate themselves and develop job skills. After all, they'll be released into society after their term is up, and as a society we have a commitment to them to make sure they have had the opportunity to prepare themselves for the job market.
Additionally, in some jurisdictions (Maricopa county is one such), prisoners are required to perform menial, physical labor. The argument is that it redirects inmate energy to working rather than fighting etc.
What has sheriff Joe done? Well, the prisons are comfy places with cable TV and weight rooms. The problem of constructing costly jails is remedied through his use of tents and cots. Presumably (and I have no knowlede either way on this one), prisoners are allowed to educate themselves and build career skills for after their release. The argument about whether his treatment of inmates has actually cut crime will take some time and statistical studies to work out.
What hasn't he done well? The tent-cities are really hot and he got overturned on using web-cams in the prison. Additionally, prisoners perform manual labor tasks.
Weighing the pros and cons for Sheriff Arpaio, it sounds like he's probably at least on average for most sheriffs around the country. At least he's shaking up the status quo and trying new ideas. Some are good and some are bad. The bad will go the way of the dinosaurs (through lawsuits and future policy decision), and the good may well spread to the rest of the country. All in all, not a terrible sheriff.
Does that mean he'll be re-elected or that he was RIGHT to put cameras in the prisons in the first place? Not necessarily, but he sounds like a sheriff that is at least making sincere efforts at doing his job well.
or troll or just overrated because you're a freakin' moron (of course, I may be too for taking your bait). how much tinfoil is your hat made of, sir? Take it off, go outside, and stop believing what the X-files and your conspiracy websites tell you. That's all I have to say.
I call bullshit. The human mind is not a thing that can have things beamed into it from a distance. You're seriously full of shit. Every brain is different, no brain has an RF antenna on top of it, so that leaves you with going in through one of the 5 senses or physically manipulating synapses from a distance (technologically impossible). If you're going through a sense, it's not "beamed in" so again, I call bullshit.
Got a link or citation of any sort for "beamed into your head(REAL technology-trial balloon tested in Japan!)"? It sounds patently ridiculous and any actual technology this is similar to would be vastly different from how you've described it, I think. Still, I'm always interested in educating myself. If you've got the link, post it here or submit to/. for the front page. Something tells me that if it's legit, it'll get posted.
Rather than chemistry books, the magcard software is more analogous to a bomb-making kit or toxin-making kit. It's not an analogy that I would have picked or even necessarily support, but it's a correction of your logic. As another point, the 1's and 0's along with the computer and programming documentation are more similar to the alphabet and chemistry book.
When I was driving down the highway with a non-functioning alternator and draining my battery, these instruments would still have been working fine and the computer recording the driving characteristics of my car. When the battery died, however, the speedometer dropped to zero, the odometer stopped turning, my fuel pump turned off, my oil pump turned off, and my power steering turned off (the last one is what really bothered me).
Now, I could very easily have been in an accident as I was going 80 mph without power steering or power brakes. Of course this computer system would have no idea what the condition and characteristics of an accident under such circumstances was.
What does all that matter? Simple. I don't think there should be and monitoring system in a car unless the instruments it monitors are more foolproof. Are these monitors immune from tampering by people who know what they're doing? No. I wouldn't want information from such monitors to be used in a criminal or civil case as evidence against me or anyone else. The government won't stay out of our bedrooms, out of our libraries, and now they want to spy on how we drive our cars.
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My point, then, is to be mindful of the weblog author's agenda. Selective reporting can be insidious and may lead readers to incorrect conclusions.
Beware getting actual "news" from this site - it can point you in the right direction, but Drudge has an agenda (just like nearly ALL other online news sources). Use it as a starting point, but try to verify something with several sources that you consider reputable before accepting something that you read online or at Drudge's website.
And just ask anyone who's rudely discovered propegating erros in their Matlab programs. Damn floating point numbers!
"public places" - define that please. Suppose you live in an apartment. Is your hallway in the building a public place? Very likely. Might you still expect a modicum of privacy there? Very likely. Do you expect your employer to not watch you shit while you're on the toilet? Why? It's a public place (your employer owns the building and there may be other people present). Additionally, your employer even has a vested interest in knowing that your shit is fine - it's an indication of your overall health. Can you see any parallel whatsoever here, or are you that thick-headed? A vested interest does not validate constant surveillance.
There is a false dichotomy between private and public spaces. Putting cameras in all areas to see everything removes any sense that though you're in public, you may have some degree of privacy through anonymity. Increasingly, there is no such thing as a truly private place and Chicago is about to lose a lot more of them.
Will it cut crime? Who knows. Do drug laws cut drug use? Sometimes the "solution" to a problem is a solution to another one entirely. Let's not kid ourselves - these cameras will probably work for a time, and then there'll be a nice camera network for use as a domestic spying tool. Don't believe me? Just wait and see.
Tell you what: let's have the city put cameras everywhere, including in your bathroom and bedroom. Then criminals are sure to never break-in or bother you in any way.
Do you see the obvious problem with a system that seeks to eliminate all crime through total surveillance?
You jest, but why is this such a bad idea. I have no plans of buying this adulterated version of the trilogy. I could reconsider, however: DVD is a versatile enough medium that Lucas could really make it an option to view the original theatrical release (cleaned-up and digitized, of course) or the re-release with ridiculous aliens and dumb slapstick CGI which also includes Han and Greedo both shooting.
It's only a small number of scenes that were changed by Lucas for the re-release, and now he's just changed one more. Give me the option to turn his retrospect off and watch the movies like I've always watched them. Don't make me dust off my VHS copies!
Citing a letter to the editor at the Arizona Daily Wildcat? I go to the UofA - the letters to the editor can't be used to back ANY position. They're often inflamatory polemics on whatever subject the handful of activist writers gets worked up about on any given day. Come on. I don't care what you're trying to prove. This entire conversation is about wikipedia not being authoritative. The daily wildcat proves something? Uh huh...
Well, this really isn't all that different from the way it is now. I had a physics professor my freshman year of college who would be called out several times a year to do post-accident investigations. From skid marks, impact directions, etc. he could put together all the pieces of data that the police (and the court) cared about. He could tell within a 5% certainty (he was proud of that figure) how fast both cars were going prior to the accident and any other phyiscally evident factors which led to the accident.
So what if the black box records my speed for accident investigation? It might mean no more consulting for my former professor, but it's not like the data isn't available right now anyway without black boxes.
Actually I dated one of them for several months. That wasn't the point of getting to know them. You don't talk to girls simply because there's a chance you might date them. College girls tend to bring something to you that you're lacking - maybe it's positive social atmosphere, a clean apartment, a well-cooked meal, interesting conversation, etc. Even if I had ended up "wrong ladder" with each one of the girls, wasn't it worth the small effort to be nice just to expand my social circle a bit with truly nice people?
As for the whole wrong ladder thing, like I said, I dated one of them for quite a while. I do think the whole wrong ladder thing (I've heard it several times before) may have application, but it IS just a theory that sometimes explains behavior and social situations. It clearly doesn't always fit.
I have to say, I was able to easily make good friends with quite a few nice girls in my dorm by offering my services to hook up their computers and get them working. It's a combination of being dorky and just being a nice person that really impresses people, I think.
The upside is that anytime they had another computer problem, guess who they called down to fix it? I fixed any problem they could come up with for just some pizza, but the real price I was charging was their company. Get to know people - the dorms are where the college social life starts. Enjoy it while you can before they kick you out and you have to live in a crappy college apartment way off campus.
What I find most interesting is that there is quite likely a way to turn off the activation in XP without using a corporate edition (no, I would never do that, I just know SOME people might)...
I wonder what the result would be if someone could simply turn off product activation via MS's native method...
That's because, like every good webmaster with limited bandwidth, gotfuturama blocks slashdot referrals. Try copying the link and requesting it directly - nice site.
Replace "peasants" with middle class (a large and growing group in modern China) and the statement makes far more sense. I was using "peasants" in a historical sense versus a literal sense.
The Chinese middle class will be the ultimate catalyst for change in their own country.
My point stands, however, that we have little to envy China for and there is no need for Sino-American rivalry that outdoes any other Olympic rivalry.
The Cold War is over and the press is despairing. Have you noticed the new emphasis in the (US) press about the competition between China and the US in these Olympics? Apparently, they realized as you did that there's no East vs. West rivalry anymore and they're trying to push this rivalry on us in order to gain ratings.
I feel no competition with China. If history proves anything, it's that repressive regimes eventually fail as peasants revolt. Back to my point, no one I know feels any real rivalry with China - there's just no reason to. NBC and co is spinning the coverage so that it appears there's a huge rivalry and they're trying to instill the rivalry in the viewing public. If you ask me, they want better ratings in '08 and are working on it now.
Well, if it makes you feel better, the 50,000 Watt broadcast antenna near you doesn't use 50,000 Watts of electricity to broadcast that signal... See: Wikipedia
Why is it hard to buy enough recorders? Simple. It's because they're using Pocket PCs running their custom software. It seems overly complicated for something that could be accomplished with a hardware recorder and later parsing via software. Why distribute a handful of expensive recorders when you can distribute many cheaper recorders? Academia confuses me sometimes - the objectives seem much less spectacular than the methods proposed to reach such objectives.
To see what I'm talking about, check out the newest model of their EAR at the bottom of the page.
It's becoming harder and harder for me to believe this is the country I live in. America is supposed to stand for individual freedoms and liberty. We're supposed to be the "melting pot" accepting all immigrants (with reasonable quotas) with open arms.
I tell you, if you watch the new Manchurian Candidate, you see some of what really bothers me. The back-story, if you will, is full of national events that are on the verge of actually occurring. Armed army units patrolling streets, every monument in DC guarded, etc. These things really really bother me and make me wonder where the America I know has gone.
The president controls federal troops in the US as well as abroad. The Posse Commitatus act is a good law. I wish it was still upheld. A war on an ethereal enemy gives the president an opportunity to corrupt the constitution and gain unreasonable powers. When are americans going to get their heads out of their butts, stop being afraid of their own shadows, and hold elected officials responsible to the Constitution?
And of course Sheriff Joe killed him. Get with the program man, I was detailing his policies as they compare with other sheriff's offices aross the country. I don't defend him (in fact I think tent cities reek of human rights violations.
Clearly Scott Norberg's death was a tragedy, and if you want to read a pretty critical review of the entire department, read the google cache of amnesty international's document.
I do think that some of his policies make sense and some don't. That's all I said in the post. Also, who killed him? The OFFICE settled the case, not the sheriff personally (he didn't kill him, though the office settled to avoid being found culpable in a civil suit). No cable TV and having to do work is all I was talking about. Re-read my original post to see I didn't defend Sheriff Joe personally, even. Just some of his policies make sense to me.
Well, certainly there's a happy medium where the desire of the people to not "pamper" inmates can be satisfied while treating prisoners in a humane manner.
I never thought criminals should have cable television and weight rooms. It's prison. The accomodations should meet at least minimal humanitarian guidelines for size and accomodations. Prisoners should be allowed to read, educate themselves and develop job skills. After all, they'll be released into society after their term is up, and as a society we have a commitment to them to make sure they have had the opportunity to prepare themselves for the job market.
Additionally, in some jurisdictions (Maricopa county is one such), prisoners are required to perform menial, physical labor. The argument is that it redirects inmate energy to working rather than fighting etc.
What has sheriff Joe done? Well, the prisons are comfy places with cable TV and weight rooms. The problem of constructing costly jails is remedied through his use of tents and cots. Presumably (and I have no knowlede either way on this one), prisoners are allowed to educate themselves and build career skills for after their release. The argument about whether his treatment of inmates has actually cut crime will take some time and statistical studies to work out.
What hasn't he done well? The tent-cities are really hot and he got overturned on using web-cams in the prison. Additionally, prisoners perform manual labor tasks.
Weighing the pros and cons for Sheriff Arpaio, it sounds like he's probably at least on average for most sheriffs around the country. At least he's shaking up the status quo and trying new ideas. Some are good and some are bad. The bad will go the way of the dinosaurs (through lawsuits and future policy decision), and the good may well spread to the rest of the country. All in all, not a terrible sheriff.
Does that mean he'll be re-elected or that he was RIGHT to put cameras in the prisons in the first place? Not necessarily, but he sounds like a sheriff that is at least making sincere efforts at doing his job well.
or troll or just overrated because you're a freakin' moron (of course, I may be too for taking your bait). how much tinfoil is your hat made of, sir? Take it off, go outside, and stop believing what the X-files and your conspiracy websites tell you. That's all I have to say.
I call bullshit. The human mind is not a thing that can have things beamed into it from a distance. You're seriously full of shit. Every brain is different, no brain has an RF antenna on top of it, so that leaves you with going in through one of the 5 senses or physically manipulating synapses from a distance (technologically impossible). If you're going through a sense, it's not "beamed in" so again, I call bullshit.
Got a link or citation of any sort for "beamed into your head(REAL technology-trial balloon tested in Japan!)"? It sounds patently ridiculous and any actual technology this is similar to would be vastly different from how you've described it, I think. Still, I'm always interested in educating myself. If you've got the link, post it here or submit to /. for the front page. Something tells me that if it's legit, it'll get posted.
Rather than chemistry books, the magcard software is more analogous to a bomb-making kit or toxin-making kit. It's not an analogy that I would have picked or even necessarily support, but it's a correction of your logic. As another point, the 1's and 0's along with the computer and programming documentation are more similar to the alphabet and chemistry book.
When I was driving down the highway with a non-functioning alternator and draining my battery, these instruments would still have been working fine and the computer recording the driving characteristics of my car. When the battery died, however, the speedometer dropped to zero, the odometer stopped turning, my fuel pump turned off, my oil pump turned off, and my power steering turned off (the last one is what really bothered me).
Now, I could very easily have been in an accident as I was going 80 mph without power steering or power brakes. Of course this computer system would have no idea what the condition and characteristics of an accident under such circumstances was.
What does all that matter? Simple. I don't think there should be and monitoring system in a car unless the instruments it monitors are more foolproof. Are these monitors immune from tampering by people who know what they're doing? No. I wouldn't want information from such monitors to be used in a criminal or civil case as evidence against me or anyone else. The government won't stay out of our bedrooms, out of our libraries, and now they want to spy on how we drive our cars.