Dumping more security camera footage on top of the pile of footage you already have is not adding more hay to the stack with a needle in it. In all of the hay, both the current stack and the new stack, there are going to be some needles. You plan to dig through the stack and find as many needles as possible. Therefore, adding more hay isn't a bad thing, since it also adds more needles for you to eventually find.
If you have increased manpower to process through all the footage and all the tips that come in, then yes, you've got a point. But if you're just throwing a bunch of off-the-wall suspicion on top of the mix, then I can see this getting in the way.
BELCHERTOWN (CBS) – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.
State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.
The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs.
Looks like the Massachusetts State Police were able to spot this one on their own.
Though my suspicion is that these gentlement just got directions to a B&B in Enfield, and didn't realize it was at the bottom of the reservoir now.
This is for increasing the level of fear in citizens in order to make privacy invasion more acceptable.
And since it will be the police getting the reports, how do you figure it will increase the level of fear in citizens?
The first time local law enforcement says, "Reports of terrorism are up 900% this year; we need an increased budget to deal with the increased threat."
How about Natalie Portman in a vat of hot grits spinning on an office chair? When she farts and creates a gaseous void near her well-formed posterior, what happens to the rotation rate of the chair?
You know that as soon as you typed that, 10 people had already photoshopped the very same thing into being, and at least half of them were getting a little randy with it. The others were just submitting it for Photoshop Phriday.
Is this a conservation of angular momentum thing? Because I feel like my high school physics teacher would try to explain this by spinning someone around in a chair with a melting ice cube on their head.
Does it change the equation if not stopping the Syrian conflict will inevitably draw Lebanon, Israel and probably Iran, Turkey and the United States into a wider and messier conflict?
Good point, and especially as Assad sees fewer options left to him, he may see more and more incentive in provoking neighboring powers to create the biggest mess possible. Thankfully he hasn't shot down a Turkish plane in the past few months, but it has seemed at times that he wants to provoke outsiders as an excuse to solidify his base.
Maybe next Google could put in something where every time someone searched for "Judea and Samaria" it could come up, "No results found. Did you mean the West Bank?"
I looked up "Palestine" on Google Maps and still didn't see any of the boundaries determined. Could Google figure that one out for us too? I'm sure there's got to be an algorithm for that. (And before anybody says anything, yes, the word "algorithm" is derived from Arabic, so it might be biased.)
Thanks for doing the math. I had it all written out and was starting to work on it, and I actually had to go *do my job.* Do they not realize what important work we do here in Slashdot discussions?
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...and the merits of the argument are shit.
Dumping more security camera footage on top of the pile of footage you already have is not adding more hay to the stack with a needle in it. In all of the hay, both the current stack and the new stack, there are going to be some needles. You plan to dig through the stack and find as many needles as possible. Therefore, adding more hay isn't a bad thing, since it also adds more needles for you to eventually find.
If you have increased manpower to process through all the footage and all the tips that come in, then yes, you've got a point. But if you're just throwing a bunch of off-the-wall suspicion on top of the mix, then I can see this getting in the way.
7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State
BELCHERTOWN (CBS) – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.
State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.
The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs.
Looks like the Massachusetts State Police were able to spot this one on their own.
Though my suspicion is that these gentlement just got directions to a B&B in Enfield, and didn't realize it was at the bottom of the reservoir now.
I'm sure Stasi PR didn't refer to the organization that way.
Whereas if you're Florida pastor Terry Jones, and you decide to barbecue another Koran...
This is for increasing the level of fear in citizens in order to make privacy invasion more acceptable.
And since it will be the police getting the reports, how do you figure it will increase the level of fear in citizens?
The first time local law enforcement says, "Reports of terrorism are up 900% this year; we need an increased budget to deal with the increased threat."
Because the best way to find a needle in a haystack is to dump increasing amounts of hay on top.
How about Natalie Portman in a vat of hot grits spinning on an office chair? When she farts and creates a gaseous void near her well-formed posterior, what happens to the rotation rate of the chair?
You know that as soon as you typed that, 10 people had already photoshopped the very same thing into being, and at least half of them were getting a little randy with it. The others were just submitting it for Photoshop Phriday.
Sounds like a good MythBusters episode to me. They can jam ever increasing amounts of explosives up the ass of pig carcasses.
In retrospect... why have they not yet done this?
Is this a conservation of angular momentum thing? Because I feel like my high school physics teacher would try to explain this by spinning someone around in a chair with a melting ice cube on their head.
On the other hand, the sagging pants would lead to explosive decompression. So it's a toss-up.
But.... this is Charlie's beach!
Does it change the equation if not stopping the Syrian conflict will inevitably draw Lebanon, Israel and probably Iran, Turkey and the United States into a wider and messier conflict?
Good point, and especially as Assad sees fewer options left to him, he may see more and more incentive in provoking neighboring powers to create the biggest mess possible. Thankfully he hasn't shot down a Turkish plane in the past few months, but it has seemed at times that he wants to provoke outsiders as an excuse to solidify his base.
I'd suggest that the families of the 43 people who died in blasts in a Turkish border town today probably consider it a problem. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/death-toll-rises-to-43-as-explosions-hit-turkish-town-on-border-with-syria.aspx?pageID=238&nID=46682&NewsCatID=341
But thankfully leaps and bounds ahead of the works of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.
At least when I try to read Hebrew I can mumble the consonants out... I don't do so well with Perl.
before some butt-hurt heeb
Or just that "butt-hurt heeb" is not usually the marker of a rational debate.
Good point. Let us not forget that Nicaragua invaded Costa Rica and planted a flag a mile or two over the border a few years ago because of an error on Google Maps. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/google-maps-error-blamed-for-nicaraguan-invasion/
Maybe next Google could put in something where every time someone searched for "Judea and Samaria" it could come up, "No results found. Did you mean the West Bank?"
It's been kind of fun recently watching Yair Lapid tear into some of them in the Knesset.
I looked up "Palestine" on Google Maps and still didn't see any of the boundaries determined. Could Google figure that one out for us too? I'm sure there's got to be an algorithm for that. (And before anybody says anything, yes, the word "algorithm" is derived from Arabic, so it might be biased.)
Apple will just release a version with thick black frames and they'll sell like hotcakes.
Thanks for doing the math. I had it all written out and was starting to work on it, and I actually had to go *do my job.* Do they not realize what important work we do here in Slashdot discussions?
but less people with the actual cash in hand.
My dyslexia momentarily had me read that as "with the actual cash to land."
That makes for an even stickier situation...
I have long been willing to give my left nut to go into space. I'm only afraid that my left nut may not be keeping up with inflation.
i.e. even when the Germans are "stupid," they're really not very stupid about it. *sigh*