He was convicted of a computer crime. How likely is it that, if he does something similar in the future, it will be of any help to the authorities that they have his DNA on file?
Not likely at all.
This isn't about his crime and prevention/ease of conviction. This is about gathering DNA of everyone they can. Pictures, fingerprints, blood samples, they want it all, from everyone. They start with convicted criminals, because no one cares about their rights. Then they added people flying in (only pics and fingerprints for now, baby steps, baby steps).
The phone calls of everone, add a lil' voice recognition software, cameras all over the place, GPS transponders in every car, RFID in every compulsory ID cards.
They're creating a perfect police state, and we're letting them.
Meh. I think we ought to just do a really thorough job of hiding it, with warnings inside the perimeter. Obvious warnings will just draw attention to the site.
I say we build a necropolis there.
What says "deadly danger" more than a bunch of stiffs?
Just write it in every major language. Several languages have survived thousands of years through today, which is how the Rosetta Stone worked.
FTFA
It would be surrounded by 48 granite or concrete markers, 32 outside the berm and 16 inside, each 25 feet high and weighing 105 tons, engraved with warnings in English, Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, Arabic and Navajo, with room for future discoverers to add warnings in contemporary languages. Pictures would denote buried hazards and human faces of horror and revulsion.
It did trigger the beginnings of an idea for a science fiction novel. What if the current state of the universe was the result of tinkering from the previous big bang cycle?
Then Galactus would be hungry... very, very hungry.
Seriously, I'm wondering, besidses the new math, why the articles about this refer to this theory as "new". I mean, it's been in sci-fi for ages, and better yet, Hindu cosmology!
I don't mean to troll, but I find zero appeal in the show. It falls in the category I call "psuedo-literature,"
1- You are trolling: Going in a thread about a show and saying "this show sucks and people who like it are dumb", even if obfuscated in a lot of big words, is trolling. 2- Literature is for books. This is a television show. You just wrote 4 paragraphs about how you don't think a televesion show is litterature. Four paragraphs based on an obvious fallacy!
The complexity is internalized in the characters; the plot itself is simple.
That statement applies perfectly to Neon Genesis Evangelion. The plot itself is simple: Giant monsters attack, people fight back with giant robots. The complexity is internalised in the characters, such as the father who murdered his wife but is now having sex with her adolescent clones while he recklessly uses his son to further his own agenda, also murdering his mistress along the way.
You, sir, did not "get it". And as a snob, instead of admitting you didn't get it, you started a long trollish tirade about how a television show is not literature. Congradulations on sucessfully subverting the moderation system.
This content was released by TakeTwo in all versions (Xbox, Playstation, PC, etc) of the game. Yes it did take a 3rd-party hack to unlock the content, but the content was an actual piece of code included in the game when purchased at retail.
I think it was caged by TakeTwo, and that the third party released it.
Btw:
release Pronunciation: ri-'lEs Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): released; releasing Etymology: Middle English relesen, from Middle French relessier, from Latin relaxare to relax 1 : to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude ; also : to let go : DISMISS 2 : to relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses 3 : to give up in favor of another : RELINQUISH 4 : to give permission for publication, performance, exhibition, or sale of; also : to make available to the public synonym see FREE
This device _WILL_ break and need servicing within 18 months.
I have an iPod I got in 2002. It works fine.
Of course, the battery doesn't last as long as when it was new, and it's got a dent in the metal cover, and the carry pouch is falling appart, and the earbuds started distorting after I wore them in the rain with my hair wet...
But the iPod works just fine.
P.S. I reject that a comment's first moderation can be "overrated".
Most people who wear the white masks on the street and trains are doing it to prevent themselves from getting sick. If you've ever ridden a Japanese train during flu season, you will start to see the appeal of them.
Never have ridden a japanese train, yet.
However, I was told, repeatedly, that sick people wore them, much like (not nearly enough) people here put their hands in front of their mouths when they cough or sneeze here.
I like how you take the skepticism of a few experts, posit that all experts believed that, and promptly conclude that all experts cannot be trusted on anything.
I'm glad you like that. It's nowhere near what I said, but you like what you hallucinate, that's nice.
"Impossible", I don't trust impossible.
I would also like to conclude with a quote
Yeah? He's an Age of Aquarius nutjob, I know. That doesn't make the existance of a pyramid impossible. It makes that guy highly untrustworthy, but sometimes the nutjobs get something right.
This device _WILL_ break and need servicing within 18 months.
I have an iPod I got in 2002. It works fine.
Of course, the battery doesn't last as long as when it was new, and it's got a dent in the metal cover, and the carry pouch is falling appart, and the earbuds started distorting after I wore them in the rain with my hair wet...
France has a long history of industrial protectionism. Their entire televesion system was designed to be different from everyone else's to promote their local industry.
So, as much as I dislike DRM, I think theirs was just such a move.
Still, Japan is among the healthiest and longest-lived countries in the world.
Yet they have a word for people who die in their early twenties from too much work. I guess this is a darwinian situation? If you push a bit harder, those sickly weaklings die off and you can squeeze off their performance out of the survivors?
Or it's because even though they're overworked, they eat ealthy and don't cough and sneeze on each other, those hygienic lil' devils.
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanag ic/ "Too bad that it is not a credible story at all. In fact, it is impossible. Who is the "archaeologist" who has taken the media for a ride?
They said the same thing about the guy that found the lost city of Troy.
Let the nutjob dig up the site some, then we'll know. I'm really not happy about "real" archeologist simply declaring that something is impossible.
The train was declared impossible. Meteorites were declared impossible. Heliocentrism was declared impossible. Heavier than air aeronefs were declared impossible.
The experts keep using that word, I do not think it means what they think it means.
Personally, I become overly chatty instead. This often leads to me speaking my mind more freely at meetings than I otherwise would. The little part of me that asks "should I really say that?" doesn't speed up
Irish cofees ARE delicious, but you shouldn't drink them before meetings : )
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Well, except that one can easily avoid this type of collection by the rather simple expedient of not committing felonies.
When they came for the felons, I said nothing, because I was not a felon...
He was convicted of a computer crime. How likely is it that, if he does something similar in the future, it will be of any help to the authorities that they have his DNA on file?
Not likely at all.
This isn't about his crime and prevention/ease of conviction. This is about gathering DNA of everyone they can. Pictures, fingerprints, blood samples, they want it all, from everyone. They start with convicted criminals, because no one cares about their rights. Then they added people flying in (only pics and fingerprints for now, baby steps, baby steps).
The phone calls of everone, add a lil' voice recognition software, cameras all over the place, GPS transponders in every car, RFID in every compulsory ID cards.
They're creating a perfect police state, and we're letting them.
Martial artist, particle physicist, brilliant neurosurgeon, and hard rockin' pop star!
P.S. Yeah, I replied to my own comment about my other fave, hey, I love these characters : )
Doc Brown and his gigawatts!
I do know this one to be utter BS, at least where there is at least one honest forensic investigator.
That's a big "if".
I'm not saying there are none, but some aren't honest. Too many, in fact. Try not to forget that.
As the FTA points out, people who robbed the pyramids in Egypt didn't pay any attention to the warnings about curses
Yeah, um, curses? Should I worry about black cats too?
Meh. I think we ought to just do a really thorough job of hiding it, with warnings inside the perimeter. Obvious warnings will just draw attention to the site.
I say we build a necropolis there.
What says "deadly danger" more than a bunch of stiffs?
I want to investigate already!
Boy, you'll like the following paragraphs of the article! : )
FTFA
It did trigger the beginnings of an idea for a science fiction novel. What if the current state of the universe was the result of tinkering from the previous big bang cycle?
Then Galactus would be hungry... very, very hungry.
Seriously, I'm wondering, besidses the new math, why the articles about this refer to this theory as "new". I mean, it's been in sci-fi for ages, and better yet, Hindu cosmology!
Kind of like being too "cheap" to buy a Lexus?
Lil' bit, yeah...
Wanna dig up the ol' "if microsoft made cars" joke now, or should we wait for a passing karma whore? : )
I don't mean to troll, but I find zero appeal in the show. It falls in the category I call "psuedo-literature,"
1- You are trolling: Going in a thread about a show and saying "this show sucks and people who like it are dumb", even if obfuscated in a lot of big words, is trolling.
2- Literature is for books. This is a television show. You just wrote 4 paragraphs about how you don't think a televesion show is litterature. Four paragraphs based on an obvious fallacy!
The complexity is internalized in the characters; the plot itself is simple.
That statement applies perfectly to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
The plot itself is simple: Giant monsters attack, people fight back with giant robots.
The complexity is internalised in the characters, such as the father who murdered his wife but is now having sex with her adolescent clones while he recklessly uses his son to further his own agenda, also murdering his mistress along the way.
You, sir, did not "get it". And as a snob, instead of admitting you didn't get it, you started a long trollish tirade about how a television show is not literature. Congradulations on sucessfully subverting the moderation system.
I think it was caged by TakeTwo, and that the third party released it.
Btw:
In short: Inertia.
This device _WILL_ break and need servicing within 18 months.
I have an iPod I got in 2002. It works fine.
Of course, the battery doesn't last as long as when it was new, and it's got a dent in the metal cover, and the carry pouch is falling appart, and the earbuds started distorting after I wore them in the rain with my hair wet...
But the iPod works just fine.
P.S. I reject that a comment's first moderation can be "overrated".
Most people who wear the white masks on the street and trains are doing it to prevent themselves from getting sick. If you've ever ridden a Japanese train during flu season, you will start to see the appeal of them.
Never have ridden a japanese train, yet.
However, I was told, repeatedly, that sick people wore them, much like (not nearly enough) people here put their hands in front of their mouths when they cough or sneeze here.
In other word, yes it was a questionof national pride, but no not against the US
WTF did I say it was against the U.S.???
Would you , as an US ressident
I'm living where now? Dude, it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
I like how you take the skepticism of a few experts, posit that all experts believed that, and promptly conclude that all experts cannot be trusted on anything.
I'm glad you like that. It's nowhere near what I said, but you like what you hallucinate, that's nice.
"Impossible", I don't trust impossible.
I would also like to conclude with a quote
Yeah? He's an Age of Aquarius nutjob, I know.
That doesn't make the existance of a pyramid impossible. It makes that guy highly untrustworthy, but sometimes the nutjobs get something right.
This device _WILL_ break and need servicing within 18 months.
I have an iPod I got in 2002. It works fine.
Of course, the battery doesn't last as long as when it was new, and it's got a dent in the metal cover, and the carry pouch is falling appart, and the earbuds started distorting after I wore them in the rain with my hair wet...
But the iPod works just fine, YOU FUDing S.O.B.
France has a long history of industrial protectionism. Their entire televesion system was designed to be different from everyone else's to promote their local industry.
So, as much as I dislike DRM, I think theirs was just such a move.
>healthcare is too important to be trusted to human greed
it's too important not to be.
Er, RTFA? The system ain't working.
Still, Japan is among the healthiest and longest-lived countries in the world.
Yet they have a word for people who die in their early twenties from too much work.
I guess this is a darwinian situation? If you push a bit harder, those sickly weaklings die off and you can squeeze off their performance out of the survivors?
Or it's because even though they're overworked, they eat ealthy and don't cough and sneeze on each other, those hygienic lil' devils.
That is why you're not supposed to let people with an emotional interest have any say in an important decision.
;-)
So... we should end wommen's suffrage?
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanag ic/
"Too bad that it is not a credible story at all. In fact, it is impossible. Who is the "archaeologist" who has taken the media for a ride?
They said the same thing about the guy that found the lost city of Troy.
Let the nutjob dig up the site some, then we'll know. I'm really not happy about "real" archeologist simply declaring that something is impossible.
The train was declared impossible.
Meteorites were declared impossible.
Heliocentrism was declared impossible.
Heavier than air aeronefs were declared impossible.
The experts keep using that word, I do not think it means what they think it means.
Personally, I become overly chatty instead. This often leads to me speaking my mind more freely at meetings than I otherwise would. The little part of me that asks "should I really say that?" doesn't speed up
Irish cofees ARE delicious, but you shouldn't drink them before meetings : )