That isn't a problem because the real purpose of this isn't to catch terrorists. It will have "STOPS TERRORISTS AND PEDOPHILES" stamped in glowing letters across the front to obtain funding. Then it will be sold to every idiot with a budget and too much power. Police departments, airports, hell as the article says:
"It could go anywhere," he said. "It could be in every airport. You could put it in a hotel if it gets down to the right scale and cost."
It will be used to "catch" people who owe library books and participated in an anti-war demonstration. Poor schmucks who had the misfortune of being caught pissing in an alley behind a bar and labeled sex-offenders will be tackled by mall security guards.
Also does anyone think there is a problem between this statement: "a skeletal scan would only expose a person to radiation that is the approximate equivalent of taking one cross-country airline flight." and this one: "It could be in every airport. You could put it in a hotel if it gets down to the right scale and cost."
If this guy gets his wish we'll be scanned each time we enter and leave a store, a mall, a library, a park.
Someone probably did and does sell this kind of information to other parties. They don't get an article about them though.
These people did research they enjoy, made a little money, built their personal brands, raised their 'wuffie', helped Google, helped Chrome users, and got an article written about them.
Why do I need to teach them about people who hand over their daughters for raping, and an immature vindictive God who metes out the most horrendous punishments for the slightest infractions? What is the value in teaching that? (Job is the best most faithful worshiper I have. I think I'll let the Devil destroy his wealth, kill his family, and cover his body with painful boils just to see what he does.)
I think I will teach these things when they are ready to hear about all of the horrible things that people have done in the past, and in some barbaric places still do. These stories belong with stories about WWII, the Inquisition, stoning, holy wars, along with a background on historical context and Milgrim's experiments showing that people can and will do awful things in the wrong circumstance. Sounds like a light introduction in high school, with more detail in college would be appropriate.
Funny you should say this (about religion). We are nominally Christian. A friend who is much more religious than us urged us to read the Bible to our kids. Thinking it couldn't be a bad thing, we get a Bible and looked through it. HOLY S! I would *never* read these stories to my kids. They are full of the sickest violence and perversions imaginable. There's incest, rape, murder, revenge, and overall a very callous attitude towards extracting violent revenge and causing misery. We told our friend that if the cover didn't say 'Bible' on it she would never allow any of her kids to hear stories like this.
We tried cleaning up a story. We took the story of 'Lot' and skipped over the part about the townspeople wanting to rape the angels staying with Lot. We skipped over the part about Lot offering to give his daughters to the townspeople to rape instead of the angels (a tempting offer, I'm sure, since Lot told them they were virgins). We skipped over the part where Lot's daughters got him drunk and had sex with their father so they could get pregnant (seriously WTF?! If you tried to make a movie of this without the name 'Lot' on it the religious right would freak). We only told that Lot left the city and his wife looked back and God turned her into a pillar of salt.
My kids laughed and laughed at how stupid the story was and how mean and nasty God was in the story. They started playing 'I caught you peeking, ZAP I turn you into salt! HAHAHA! It turned into a game of Simon-Says where if you missed an instruction you got turned into salt.'
Maybe I should show them the movie 'Saw' next, but I'll write 'Holy' on the cover to make it ok.
The official ratings are meaningless to me. I don't care if my kid sees a topless girl, I don't see anything wrong with the human body. But I sure as hell don't want him filling his head with the most disgusting murders imaginable until he's old enough to handle it.
Yet the ratings are very strict with anything related to nudity or sexuality but give a free pass to all sorts of violence.
> Have you seen some of the people out there? It's pretty scary. There are masses of people who have little social life but are entirely devoted to their careers. They will crush anyone who indulges in normal human pleasures. The only ones who can defeat them are the robots.
That's just fine by me because I am a social degenerate who builds killer robots.
From your own Wikipedia link: "In reality, this experiment shows that the Coriolis effect is a few orders of magnitude smaller than various other influences on drain direction, the direction in which water was initially added to the container and its geometry. In the above experiment, if the water settles for 2 hours or less (instead of 24), then the vortex can be seen to rotate in either direction."
You are finding the same problem everyone has with any data set. Hierarchical folders with one name only allow for a single, pre-arranged organization. It's terrible for the way we really use files, data, whatever really.
Store your data sets with simple "inventory names" like 00001 through 99999 or random serial numbers. Have a spreadsheet or database that associates all of your data sets with as many characteristics as you like. Then you can sort and find by any combination you can think of in the future.
You need to make an alley of death. Make two lines of gloom-shrooms with an empty alley between them. Put garlic along a front column to lead all of the zombies into the alley of death. Works great.
Henchman: "Professor, I've increased the laser's power to a new incredible limit, and something remarkable has happened. It is creating new matter! I can tune the beam to create any matter in any configuration we need!" Professor: "Darn. We needed a big laser. Oh well, throw it all out, that was a dead end."
> Well, I for one am tired of reading about server room floodings (data center in Istambul) and welcome reading about sinking data centers in the near future. As an added bonus, I can even link to this posting.
Watched the video. The country is flooding and all this guy can think about is getting his chair adjusted 'just right'.
I hope you know that while your cat is playfully chasing that little dot the invisible infra-red light coming out of that toy at several times the power of the visible beam may blind your cat.
Where I live in New York it's pretty hard to shock anyone. But I have friends in other parts of the country where anything out of the ordinary generates shock and outrage. Everyone's situation is different. I can certainly see why someone in Peoria doesn't want the neighborhood bible reading group to read your private thoughts on your gay son.
You are under arrest for the murder of Donald Kaufman. We haven't found the body, but nobody has seen him in years and we have evidence connecting you to Mr. Kaufman.
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That isn't a problem because the real purpose of this isn't to catch terrorists. It will have "STOPS TERRORISTS AND PEDOPHILES" stamped in glowing letters across the front to obtain funding. Then it will be sold to every idiot with a budget and too much power. Police departments, airports, hell as the article says:
"It could go anywhere," he said. "It could be in every airport. You could put it in a hotel if it gets down to the right scale and cost."
It will be used to "catch" people who owe library books and participated in an anti-war demonstration. Poor schmucks who had the misfortune of being caught pissing in an alley behind a bar and labeled sex-offenders will be tackled by mall security guards.
Also does anyone think there is a problem between this statement:
"a skeletal scan would only expose a person to radiation that is the approximate equivalent of taking one cross-country airline flight."
and this one:
"It could be in every airport. You could put it in a hotel if it gets down to the right scale and cost."
If this guy gets his wish we'll be scanned each time we enter and leave a store, a mall, a library, a park.
Sorry: 'Whuffie'.
Someone probably did and does sell this kind of information to other parties.
They don't get an article about them though.
These people did research they enjoy, made a little money, built their personal brands, raised their 'wuffie', helped Google, helped Chrome users, and got an article written about them.
I'm pretty sure the two kissing in the article's photo are both women.
As if the ratio wasn't bad enough, the only two women hooked up... with each other.
> well-said man.....you're a genius!!! Please can you post something like this also with reference to that other idiotic book, the Quran???
Oh don't get me on a rant! I'm going to get hate-mail for this, but try googling for "Thighing" and come back here to discuss the Quran.
It says so on my birth certificate.
Why do I need to teach them about people who hand over their daughters for raping, and an immature vindictive God who metes out the most horrendous punishments for the slightest infractions? What is the value in teaching that? (Job is the best most faithful worshiper I have. I think I'll let the Devil destroy his wealth, kill his family, and cover his body with painful boils just to see what he does.)
I think I will teach these things when they are ready to hear about all of the horrible things that people have done in the past, and in some barbaric places still do. These stories belong with stories about WWII, the Inquisition, stoning, holy wars, along with a background on historical context and Milgrim's experiments showing that people can and will do awful things in the wrong circumstance. Sounds like a light introduction in high school, with more detail in college would be appropriate.
Funny you should say this (about religion).
We are nominally Christian. A friend who is much more religious than us urged us to read the Bible to our kids. Thinking it couldn't be a bad thing, we get a Bible and looked through it. HOLY S! I would *never* read these stories to my kids. They are full of the sickest violence and perversions imaginable. There's incest, rape, murder, revenge, and overall a very callous attitude towards extracting violent revenge and causing misery. We told our friend that if the cover didn't say 'Bible' on it she would never allow any of her kids to hear stories like this.
We tried cleaning up a story. We took the story of 'Lot' and skipped over the part about the townspeople wanting to rape the angels staying with Lot. We skipped over the part about Lot offering to give his daughters to the townspeople to rape instead of the angels (a tempting offer, I'm sure, since Lot told them they were virgins). We skipped over the part where Lot's daughters got him drunk and had sex with their father so they could get pregnant (seriously WTF?! If you tried to make a movie of this without the name 'Lot' on it the religious right would freak). We only told that Lot left the city and his wife looked back and God turned her into a pillar of salt.
My kids laughed and laughed at how stupid the story was and how mean and nasty God was in the story. They started playing 'I caught you peeking, ZAP I turn you into salt! HAHAHA! It turned into a game of Simon-Says where if you missed an instruction you got turned into salt.'
Maybe I should show them the movie 'Saw' next, but I'll write 'Holy' on the cover to make it ok.
Bullshit.
The official ratings are meaningless to me. I don't care if my kid sees a topless girl, I don't see anything wrong with the human body. But I sure as hell don't want him filling his head with the most disgusting murders imaginable until he's old enough to handle it.
Yet the ratings are very strict with anything related to nudity or sexuality but give a free pass to all sorts of violence.
That's why scramble masks from A Scanner Darkly will become fashionable.
> Have you seen some of the people out there? It's pretty scary. There are masses of people who have little social life but are entirely devoted to their careers. They will crush anyone who indulges in normal human pleasures. The only ones who can defeat them are the robots.
That's just fine by me because I am a social degenerate who builds killer robots.
I call B.S.
From your own Wikipedia link: "In reality, this experiment shows that the Coriolis effect is a few orders of magnitude smaller than various other influences on drain direction, the direction in which water was initially added to the container and its geometry. In the above experiment, if the water settles for 2 hours or less (instead of 24), then the vortex can be seen to rotate in either direction."
You are finding the same problem everyone has with any data set. Hierarchical folders with one name only allow for a single, pre-arranged organization. It's terrible for the way we really use files, data, whatever really.
Store your data sets with simple "inventory names" like 00001 through 99999 or random serial numbers. Have a spreadsheet or database that associates all of your data sets with as many characteristics as you like. Then you can sort and find by any combination you can think of in the future.
That's funny because it isn't from Futurama but I wrote it hearing Professor Farnsworth's voice in my head.
You need to make an alley of death. Make two lines of gloom-shrooms with an empty alley between them. Put garlic along a front column to lead all of the zombies into the alley of death. Works great.
Add some magnets and other things to improve it.
Henchman: "Professor, I've increased the laser's power to a new incredible limit, and something remarkable has happened. It is creating new matter! I can tune the beam to create any matter in any configuration we need!"
Professor: "Darn. We needed a big laser. Oh well, throw it all out, that was a dead end."
Here's a simple recipe for implementing this on your own:
1. Set up a script to create a TrueCrypt volume at boot time with a randomly generated key
2. ???
3. Profit!
You're done. When the system reboots the old key which wasn't stored anywhere is gone, the data is inaccessible, and a new volume is ready for use.
And bullies couldn't remember if their names were 'Brutus' or 'Bluto'.
> Well, I for one am tired of reading about server room floodings (data center in Istambul) and welcome reading about sinking data centers in the near future. As an added bonus, I can even link to this posting.
Watched the video.
The country is flooding and all this guy can think about is getting his chair adjusted 'just right'.
I hope you know that while your cat is playfully chasing that little dot the invisible infra-red light coming out of that toy at several times the power of the visible beam may blind your cat.
Where I live in New York it's pretty hard to shock anyone. But I have friends in other parts of the country where anything out of the ordinary generates shock and outrage. Everyone's situation is different. I can certainly see why someone in Peoria doesn't want the neighborhood bible reading group to read your private thoughts on your gay son.
> political descent
That's not a mistake. That's poetry.
You are under arrest for the murder of Donald Kaufman.
We haven't found the body, but nobody has seen him in years and we have evidence connecting you to Mr. Kaufman.
Got it! It's 'Global Dynamics' in Eureka Oregon. Try not to blow up the Earth while your working please.
A little sleuthing suggests they are in northeastern Florida, but I don't know much about DoD departments so that doesn't help.