TSA will only be successful when they find individual who will say it loudly and clearly: King has no clothes, and current TSA is a security theater. Without naming the problem, it is not possible to resolve the issue efficiently and effectively.
Reality is that the median throughput of one TSA checkpoint is approximately 5-6 seconds per person, 20 persons per minute, or 1,800 per one hour, but it could be even faster.
Another fact is that every passenger pays, $5.60 per check. At that throughput TSA collects approximately $7,000 per one hour through one lane, and in an airport in a terminal there can be 5, 6 or 7 lanes. We are talking about approximately up to $50,000 revenue per hour. The truth is TSA does need funding from budget, because they collect all the money that they need from the passengers (via airline fees, non negotiable)>
As we said, it is not about the money. Literally, to quote a famous quote from movie the Bug's life, it is literally: to keep them in line.
It is a well know stereotype that tax authorities around the world are employing certain type of people. They are know for (or are requited to have) intimidation.
However French tax authorities met a formidable oponent.
Companies like Google have enough funds to hire very good specialists. Logical thinking and knowledge of the tax laws is one of the criteria.
Eventually it will be the fight between the two: intimidation vs legal logic.
I am betting that Google will win. All french authorities are doing, are sending armed masked swat as if google was some sort of illegal business. Imagination is not their thing...
Those who are in "policy making" are bad at math and physic. I always get a sense that low IQ or low persistence people become politicians that always want to control others. It was always like that through ages, since the times when everyone knew that earth is being held by three giant whales or elephants.
Most of fossil fuels represent energy of sun converted to carbohydrates or coal. Of course burning all of it would heat up mother Earth. But burning it slowly, won't.
Those models that calculate carbon dioxide emitted to earth always, and I say, always, fail to take into account intricacies on how fast carbon dioxide is consumed by the oxygen making living organisms of the earth. Have there been any studies that demonstrate marginal increase in carbon dioxide absorption compared to the increase of the output of carbon dioxide.
If there are any serious studies, such studies will never be mentioned by policy makers. Nobody is denying that a lot of carbon dioxide is emitted to the atmosphere, and that the climate is changing (it always changing).
To battle climate change by wearing green shirt and driving Prius, is similar to the rainmaking rituals of Zuni: one most wear blue feather and avoid staring to the buffalo on the day of the ritual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Under some circumstances, such as very favorable landscape, that allows storage of a lot of trains at the top of the mountain, it might work, but it is not likely be feasible for many other states. Energy losses are staggering.
In general, has anybody thought that mother Earth has thought about the solution?
Excess energy is converted to carbon by dissecting carbon dioxide molecule. Carbon can be stored indefinitely.
We already have one human rights activist, Glenn Greenwald, arguing that Snowden was right. Glenn G. did issue some articles on probably 0.1% of the materials he received.
After that he received and took a job offer that he could not refuse from a private company, that happens to be a major AWS services provider to CIA and other governmental organizations.
So, Glenn Greenwald shut up. But he still argues that Snowden was right.
right... glass is ceramic. If you are not concerned with the knifes, then why are they are stealing nail scissors in the airports. Because of people like you people wait in the lines for multiple hours.
Fire in the cargo hold is a royal fuckup, especially if the fire is in the middle of the ocean. That being said, electronic pipe in the passenger compartment is probably the safest thing that you can have.
Now comes the checked baggage. E-cigarette has a battery, most of the time it is Li-ion battery. That being said, laptop has much larger battery. Same with the flashlights.
Solution: if you have an e-cig, require remove the battery before travel. Problem solved.
Every time I go through the airport in a secured zone, I see shelves stacked with wine, whiskey, beer, vodka, champagne. Every bottle, when broken, is a potential ceramic knife. By the way, a very sharp knife.
Two quarters of 100 proof spirit is very flammable. Whiskey in the bottle is just an expensive Molotov cocktail - lite.
If there is any kind of mechanical issue, or a hint of it, pilots are trained to report immediately to the ground. All we have at this time is a news report about an automated distress signal, which is released by the plain automatically.
Remember Lockerby: it took years to put all the evidence, and it disintegrated over the ground. Flight 804 has disappeared in the middle of Mediterranean sea, investigation will be extremely difficult and costly. It will take weeks to get the flight recorders and it will take months to gather some plane parts. Marine environment is very unfriendly to the forensic evidence.
Because of the uncertainty, it will have a chilling effect to Egypt tourism (second airplane crash within 12 month), and, possibly, even longer TSA lines in USA. People will now need arrive to the airport not 2 but 3 hours.
This tragedy may also add several percent points to Mr. Trump's popularity, and could possibly win him elections.
So when the prisons start using firing squads, they will be accused of infringing the eighth amendment ("which bars unusual or cruel punishment"). However the same bullets lawfully fired from the same weapon in any other situation would be ok.
Could it be possible that in the next century, accused killers will be killed in their natural sleep, when their REM sleep phase is at the deepest sleep phase? Killing will be done by the overdose of the laughing gas.
What the heck. Death penalty used to be cruel for a reason. As a deterrent to the other people, an entertainment and indelible memories of what happens for those who kill other people.
CIA (and many other agencies) spends a ton of money on AWS (Amazon Web Services). Jeff Bezos is an owner of Amazon. Same Jeff Bezos funds the website intercept, which becomes a non-productive avenue to publich Snowden's revelations.
Many of the Snowden's revelations were already known, and his leak did a great public service.
That being said, Snowden's files were expected to be a never ending source of new exciting revelations. Did not happen. Greenwald was bought off, but he didn't know it at that time.
Google clearly says that you get "free" email for a right to be analyzed, probed and offered products. Zero privacy, so to speak.
Now, those educational accounts managed by Google are a slightly different animal. That being said, if services are free I am sure google has a sentence, somewhere in the fine print, that allows them scan and analyze.
Of course, the main irony of the original posting is the resentment of the court office for plaintiffs being cheapskates and paying only $400, rather than paying $28 thousand in filing fees.
What happened is that they said they hired women and they exercised their free speech and talked about it in internet. Well they work for the internet companies and rather than talking to their friends, they blabbered on internet. Now that has been used against them.
Washington DC should be a cordoned crime zone if standards applied to these two gentleman would be applied the nation's capital.
Funny thing is that women are against the legalization of prostitution, but man are generally cool with that... In every economic model, if something is made illegal it usually results in increased prices.
You can put founders in prison, you can seize the servers. You can intimidate the ISP. You can ban the domain name. You can't ban an idea, whose time has come. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you will not summon it back. Once people get the taste of free stuff, there is no going back.
P.S. Technologies have moved, and right know the pirate bay does not even need a domain. P.S.2. I am not defending piracy. However claims about billions and billions of revenue lost are unfounded. Only rarely a movie is worth even watching.
Of course my sample is not representative, but of the people who I know who are, let's say it, are selective on vaccination are biochemical science PhD's (in major pharmaceutical companies), creators of biological medications and medical doctors. There is no denial about benefits of the vaccines, however only selected vaccines are taken and at the age that is ordinarily much later than "recommended" vaccination schedule. Also, vaccines are never mixed.
I will give an example. Right now 6 month infants are "recommended" hepatitis B vaccine. Usually and ordinarily people have Hepatitis B risk, if they are sex workers, prisoners, police and similar.
Who exactly needs to take classes? And what exactly we are going to learn in these classes?
It is in a human behavior to hoard and the reason governments evolved from gold, to paper money, to electronic money is to have an ability to control inflation.
Inflation is process that punishes those who do no thing, but have something. There are far far better processes than inflation, but inflation is a form of redistribution.
The fact is most of the people do not mind bigger government, as long as they deem it fair, frugal and feel represented. Switzerland is a good example.
That being said, there is hardly a recent precedent of smaller government in the modern world.
Well, editorials of this newspaper were calling all the names for daring to touch the subject of outsourcing. But these are not the editors' and article writers' jobs that are on the chopping block.
This is the reason that most of the newspapers are doing rather badly with no profit to show.
Being politically correct has a price. Chicken came to roost. They always come. One way or another.
I have never hidden that I would benefit from more knowledge and sophistication. Never. What I have attempted to say, that even semi-literate individual can sense that "trending" at FB is a BS. As such, I am offering to bury the war tomahawk between us and figure out a way to put a message across those FB users who are below semi-literate level. Slash-dot is not a place where that kind of individuals are grazing. peace.
People are upset with Facebook? Zuckerman clearly stated where his believes and values are. That also means that he hires people with similar believes. The new hires emulate the boss, the CEO and main shareholder, and at some point someone gave valuable advice to tweak the trending news.
It is surprising that people are surprised at all.
In the modern age of information only hard facts can be relied upon: historic stock price, weather temperature, latest census information probably does not require a separate verification.
A well rounded individual gets other than factual information from various sources.
Just because the book is priced at $42 it does not mean that there is a demand for that book. Most likely Uganda will completely skip brick and mortar phase within enlightenment phase, called libraries.
English is an official language, together with the suahili language. Those who are inclined to learn, need to find a way to use internet. Once you find an internet, you have pretty much unlimited access to knowledge.
FB is a private company. People are not forced to sign up, when signed up they are not forced to spend time. Facebook will use first amendment defense, saying that free speech is speaking freely.
If FB get's singled, why would huffington post, another low IQ and low energy place be any different?
Slashdot Mirror
TSA will only be successful when they find individual who will say it loudly and clearly: King has no clothes, and current TSA is a security theater. Without naming the problem, it is not possible to resolve the issue efficiently and effectively.
Reality is that the median throughput of one TSA checkpoint is approximately 5-6 seconds per person, 20 persons per minute, or 1,800 per one hour, but it could be even faster.
Another fact is that every passenger pays, $5.60 per check. At that throughput TSA collects approximately $7,000 per one hour through one lane, and in an airport in a terminal there can be 5, 6 or 7 lanes. We are talking about approximately up to $50,000 revenue per hour. The truth is TSA does need funding from budget, because they collect all the money that they need from the passengers (via airline fees, non negotiable)>
As we said, it is not about the money. Literally, to quote a famous quote from movie the Bug's life, it is literally: to keep them in line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I have to assume that you are always the wise man in the room.
Somebody who has a memory more voluminous than the elephant, combined with the details comparable that of the photo. Photographic memory, so to speak.
You work for a large corporation. And you are a smart ass director.
You either have PhD, or considered having one.
It is a well know stereotype that tax authorities around the world are employing certain type of people. They are know for (or are requited to have) intimidation.
However French tax authorities met a formidable oponent.
Companies like Google have enough funds to hire very good specialists. Logical thinking and knowledge of the tax laws is one of the criteria.
Eventually it will be the fight between the two: intimidation vs legal logic.
I am betting that Google will win. All french authorities are doing, are sending armed masked swat as if google was some sort of illegal business. Imagination is not their thing...
Those who are in "policy making" are bad at math and physic. I always get a sense that low IQ or low persistence people become politicians that always want to control others. It was always like that through ages, since the times when everyone knew that earth is being held by three giant whales or elephants.
Most of fossil fuels represent energy of sun converted to carbohydrates or coal. Of course burning all of it would heat up mother Earth. But burning it slowly, won't.
Those models that calculate carbon dioxide emitted to earth always, and I say, always, fail to take into account intricacies on how fast carbon dioxide is consumed by the oxygen making living organisms of the earth. Have there been any studies that demonstrate marginal increase in carbon dioxide absorption compared to the increase of the output of carbon dioxide.
If there are any serious studies, such studies will never be mentioned by policy makers. Nobody is denying that a lot of carbon dioxide is emitted to the atmosphere, and that the climate is changing (it always changing).
To battle climate change by wearing green shirt and driving Prius, is similar to the rainmaking rituals of Zuni: one most wear blue feather and avoid staring to the buffalo on the day of the ritual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Under some circumstances, such as very favorable landscape, that allows storage of a lot of trains at the top of the mountain, it might work, but it is not likely be feasible for many other states. Energy losses are staggering.
In general, has anybody thought that mother Earth has thought about the solution?
Excess energy is converted to carbon by dissecting carbon dioxide molecule. Carbon can be stored indefinitely.
We already have one human rights activist, Glenn Greenwald, arguing that Snowden was right. Glenn G. did issue some articles on probably 0.1% of the materials he received.
After that he received and took a job offer that he could not refuse from a private company, that happens to be a major AWS services provider to CIA and other governmental organizations.
So, Glenn Greenwald shut up. But he still argues that Snowden was right.
Where is the truth, then?
right... glass is ceramic. If you are not concerned with the knifes, then why are they are stealing nail scissors in the airports. Because of people like you people wait in the lines for multiple hours.
Fire in the cargo hold is a royal fuckup, especially if the fire is in the middle of the ocean. That being said, electronic pipe in the passenger compartment is probably the safest thing that you can have.
Now comes the checked baggage. E-cigarette has a battery, most of the time it is Li-ion battery. That being said, laptop has much larger battery. Same with the flashlights.
Solution: if you have an e-cig, require remove the battery before travel. Problem solved.
If someone has financial difficulties and likes fancy lifestyle, that person will very likely become a spy.
Knowing about you, even if it is metadata, tells you a lot.
Every time I go through the airport in a secured zone, I see shelves stacked with wine, whiskey, beer, vodka, champagne. Every bottle, when broken, is a potential ceramic knife. By the way, a very sharp knife.
Two quarters of 100 proof spirit is very flammable. Whiskey in the bottle is just an expensive Molotov cocktail - lite.
Planes just do not disappear suddenly.
If there is any kind of mechanical issue, or a hint of it, pilots are trained to report immediately to the ground. All we have at this time is a news report about an automated distress signal, which is released by the plain automatically.
Remember Lockerby: it took years to put all the evidence, and it disintegrated over the ground. Flight 804 has disappeared in the middle of Mediterranean sea, investigation will be extremely difficult and costly. It will take weeks to get the flight recorders and it will take months to gather some plane parts. Marine environment is very unfriendly to the forensic evidence.
Because of the uncertainty, it will have a chilling effect to Egypt tourism (second airplane crash within 12 month), and, possibly, even longer TSA lines in USA. People will now need arrive to the airport not 2 but 3 hours.
This tragedy may also add several percent points to Mr. Trump's popularity, and could possibly win him elections.
So when the prisons start using firing squads, they will be accused of infringing the eighth amendment ("which bars unusual or cruel punishment").
However the same bullets lawfully fired from the same weapon in any other situation would be ok.
Could it be possible that in the next century, accused killers will be killed in their natural sleep, when their REM sleep phase is at the deepest sleep phase? Killing will be done by the overdose of the laughing gas.
What the heck. Death penalty used to be cruel for a reason. As a deterrent to the other people, an entertainment and indelible memories of what happens for those who kill other people.
CIA (and many other agencies) spends a ton of money on AWS (Amazon Web Services). Jeff Bezos is an owner of Amazon. Same Jeff Bezos funds the website intercept, which becomes a non-productive avenue to publich Snowden's revelations.
Many of the Snowden's revelations were already known, and his leak did a great public service.
That being said, Snowden's files were expected to be a never ending source of new exciting revelations. Did not happen. Greenwald was bought off, but he didn't know it at that time.
Google clearly says that you get "free" email for a right to be analyzed, probed and offered products. Zero privacy, so to speak.
Now, those educational accounts managed by Google are a slightly different animal. That being said, if services are free I am sure google has a sentence, somewhere in the fine print, that allows them scan and analyze.
Of course, the main irony of the original posting is the resentment of the court office for plaintiffs being cheapskates and paying only $400, rather than paying $28 thousand in filing fees.
What happened is that they said they hired women and they exercised their free speech and talked about it in internet. Well they work for the internet companies and rather than talking to their friends, they blabbered on internet. Now that has been used against them.
Washington DC should be a cordoned crime zone if standards applied to these two gentleman would be applied the nation's capital.
Funny thing is that women are against the legalization of prostitution, but man are generally cool with that... In every economic model, if something is made illegal it usually results in increased prices.
You can put founders in prison, you can seize the servers. You can intimidate the ISP. You can ban the domain name. You can't ban an idea, whose time has come. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you will not summon it back. Once people get the taste of free stuff, there is no going back.
P.S. Technologies have moved, and right know the pirate bay does not even need a domain.
P.S.2. I am not defending piracy. However claims about billions and billions of revenue lost are unfounded. Only rarely a movie is worth even watching.
Of course my sample is not representative, but of the people who I know who are, let's say it, are selective on vaccination are biochemical science PhD's (in major pharmaceutical companies), creators of biological medications and medical doctors. There is no denial about benefits of the vaccines, however only selected vaccines are taken and at the age that is ordinarily much later than "recommended" vaccination schedule. Also, vaccines are never mixed.
I will give an example. Right now 6 month infants are "recommended" hepatitis B vaccine. Usually and ordinarily people have Hepatitis B risk, if they are sex workers, prisoners, police and similar.
Who exactly needs to take classes? And what exactly we are going to learn in these classes?
That is not going to happen.
It is in a human behavior to hoard and the reason governments evolved from gold, to paper money, to electronic money is to have an ability to control inflation.
Inflation is process that punishes those who do no thing, but have something. There are far far better processes than inflation, but inflation is a form of redistribution.
The fact is most of the people do not mind bigger government, as long as they deem it fair, frugal and feel represented. Switzerland is a good example.
That being said, there is hardly a recent precedent of smaller government in the modern world.
Well, editorials of this newspaper were calling all the names for daring to touch the subject of outsourcing. But these are not the editors' and article writers' jobs that are on the chopping block.
This is the reason that most of the newspapers are doing rather badly with no profit to show.
Being politically correct has a price. Chicken came to roost. They always come. One way or another.
I have never hidden that I would benefit from more knowledge and sophistication. Never. What I have attempted to say, that even semi-literate individual can sense that "trending" at FB is a BS. As such, I am offering to bury the war tomahawk between us and figure out a way to put a message across those FB users who are below semi-literate level. Slash-dot is not a place where that kind of individuals are grazing. peace.
Zuckerman, the CEO, has said about the FB users: "Dumb Fucks".
And you expect that he will be feeding fair and representative opinions?
You ARE a Facebook user!
People are upset with Facebook? Zuckerman clearly stated where his believes and values are. That also means that he hires people with similar believes. The new hires emulate the boss, the CEO and main shareholder, and at some point someone gave valuable advice to tweak the trending news.
It is surprising that people are surprised at all.
In the modern age of information only hard facts can be relied upon: historic stock price, weather temperature, latest census information probably does not require a separate verification.
A well rounded individual gets other than factual information from various sources.
Just because the book is priced at $42 it does not mean that there is a demand for that book. Most likely Uganda will completely skip brick and mortar phase within enlightenment phase, called libraries.
English is an official language, together with the suahili language. Those who are inclined to learn, need to find a way to use internet. Once you find an internet, you have pretty much unlimited access to knowledge.
FB is a private company. People are not forced to sign up, when signed up they are not forced to spend time. Facebook will use first amendment defense, saying that free speech is speaking freely.
If FB get's singled, why would huffington post, another low IQ and low energy place be any different?
When woman asked what he was doing he said he was doing Al-gebra for an AL-gorithm.
Imagine the possibilities, if we could only get a way to print disposable miniature sharks.