From BBC article: "The force said officers taking part in the pilot must comply with guidelines about when cameras are to be used, but that they will not be permanently switched on."
Or forget about the complexities of a marking scheme that will only be found on a subset of dumped products, many of which will predate any mandatory scheme.
Instead, how about analysing the trash on-the-fly? If only there was a cheap open source chemical analyser available...
If you do not, and you maintain that you can't compare the statistics, then there's no way you can say crimes are higher in the US either.
I don't think I ever claimed that crimes are higher in the US.
There is an objective reality. There are a certain number of crimes that occur in both countries each year. One country is more crime ridden than the other, even if only by a fraction of a percent. You assert we can't tell the difference.
No. I assert that we can't tell the difference from those sets of figures.
Again, if you can find a different report that you find suitable for comparison from either country, please post it and I'll read it. We can then discuss it.
Tell you what, why don't you start at the UK Stats Office:http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/crime-justice/crime/crime-trends/index.html. They explain when recorded crime is a better measure, and when a crime survey is better. If you look at the trend graphs, you can immediately see that in 2007/8 BCS reported 10 million incidents, while Police figures show only 5 million recorded crimes. Surveys report more crimes than police record. Or look at the Home Office report for 2007/8: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0708.pdf. Burglaries 300,000 according to police, 800,000 according to the survey. Measuring different things in different ways.
You ask in another post "If you are unwilling to consider why methods are picked, what implications those methods have, and what institutional goals are supported by those methods and implications, then you are the essentially the most likely to be bullshitted by statistics.". I suggest that this comment applies very well to the OP who tried to compare US recorded crime figures with UK victim survey figures. And to anyone who gullibly believed the comparison actually meant anything.
I invite you to poke around the official numbers for both the US and the UK and make a counter argument.
Those statistics are measuring quite different things, and cannot be meaningfully compared.
The US figures are offences recorded by the police.
The UK figures you give are from the British Crime Survey - a survey of people, who are asked if they have been victims of crime. Such surveys always give much higher figures, for a variety of reasons.
In many ways a crime survey gives more useful numbers, as it measures victims rather than crimes, and isn't subject to recording differences. But the two really cannot be compared.
Given how many wars were fought in Europe in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, and how many in the second half of the 20th, something must have happened. If it wasn't US troops, what was it? Why were the horrors of WWII enough to convince Europeans not to fight each other, when the horrors of WWI weren't?
That's just so bizarre it's hard to know where to start...
Apart from the fact that Europeans still are fighting each other in a number of conflicts, even if there had been no armed conflict at all in Europe since WW2, why on Earth would you assume that US presence caused that? Especially given the conflicts that have occured when US troops have been present.
OK, "if it wasn't US troops, what was it?" how about:
invention and development of the computer
widespread use of television
foundation of the United Nations
the invention of the bikini
the Roswell incident
All of these also happened around the end of WW2. And are as likely as your suggestion.
Correlation does not imply causation.
IANAFM also, but yes, I'd expect to see slower water, as we have extracted energy from it. With care, this need not be a bad thing - for example, groins have been constructed on parts of the Thames to slow the water near the banks, encouraging scour of the main shipping channel. Erect a vortex generator instead of groins and you can control flow and generate electricity. Downside is it may become too successful, and the silting could interfere with operation.
the problem seems not to be electronic voting so much as just a poor set of instructions.
Check out "usability" - eg Donald Norman. If you need to rely on detailed instructions, then you've got a usability issue.
Truth is, we don't know the intentions of those who withdrew their card early. But they were told that they had to press "Cancel" to cancel their vote. As they didn't "follow the instructions" for either voting or not voting, I'd say there's a usability problem.
(and yes, I know people don't always follow instructions on simple paper ballots)
The UK had its own domestic terrorists for decades: the IRA. Yet the government did not feel that such pervasive monitoring was necessary. Now, largely because of something that happened 3000 miles away, the UK feels that such pervasive monitoring is necessary.
I disagree - I don't think the change is that monitoring is suddenly *necessary*, more that it's suddenly *possible*.
Decades ago we didn't have the technology to routinely capture, store and process this information. Decades ago, the public might not have stood for it.
Now we have the technology. September 11th didn't make monitoring necessary, but did make it politically acceptable.
Why do governments build such systems? Because they can.
Well all this baffles me. I roast (dry pan on medium high gas ring, lots of stirring) and to my mind nothing beats a really fresh roast - ground while still hot, so it fizzes up when you add water to it in the filter. There's a whole bunch of fresh zingy aromas and high notes that get lost in a day or so.
I'll allow that the beans settle down in a day or so and become more like commercial roasts, but one of the deep joys of home roasting is to sample the delightful flavours of a really fresh roast.
Generally right - reasonably narrow aperture & very long exposure.
Although other posters point out that digital camera noise can be a problem, there are workarounds. For a start, ensure that you turn the LCD off, if possible. Try to let the camera cool down between shots.
Your camera may have a low noise setting. If not, take a long exposure photograph with the lens cap on. This "dark" frame will be noisy because of hot CCD cells. In Photoshop/whatever, subtract this image from your photograph to subtract the noise.
For best results, take several dark field images and average them.
Except that most content-filtering packages will also prevent access to known open proxy servers. Credit them with some intelligence!
As others have mentioned, you should be able to get away with setting up a private proxy on a home machine - but make sure it's only visible/accessible to you, or the nanny software will eventually spot it, and block your home machine.
Apart from that, advise your friend to host explicit and non-explicit stuff on separate domains. Her main domain is already tainted - she'd need to outhost the clean stuff.
You'll never find out what the filtering algorithms are. I'm sure you have pure and noble reasons for wanting to tweak the system, but the bad guys out there would also love to know how to evade being blocked!
In this case it states "Click on any LINK or image to indicate "I ACCEPT" the USER Agreement." Where User Agreement is in fact a link. Hence, you have agreed to an agreement which you were unable to view before agreement.
You don't even have to visit the website to agree:
"BY SENDING US AN E-MAIL OR OTHER COMMUNICATION, WHETHER DIRETLY OR INDIRECTLY, YOU ARE ASSERTING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THIS USER AGREEMENT, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS USER AGREEMENT, AND THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY AUTHORIZED TO ASSENT TO BE BOUND TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS PRESENTED IN THIS USER AGREEMENT. "
But that's quite a long way down the 20,000 word document, so you may not have noticed...
It's not like the press release didn't rub everyone's faces in the fact it's European.
Why does every press release have to mention how they are doing it "better" than we Americans are.
Err, the only mention of Europe in the press release was the very last paragraph.. "Mrs Edelgard Bulmahn, German Minister for Research and Education, who is also chair of the ESA Council at ministerial level, said at the press conference: "Europe can be proud of this mission: Mars Express is an enormous success for the European space programme."
We are looking at the same press release, right? Because that quote doesn't seem to justify your assertion that ESA has a serious case of American Wang Envy
There is a place for Europe and the US and [insert name of country here] in space exploration. And justification in each country being proud of its successes, and congratulating the others on their successes.
If Mrs Bulmahn's comments offended you that much, then I apologise on her behalf, and on the behalf of The whole damn socialist European Union
Voice control of all functions. Imagine walking into a room and saying 'increase lights by fifty percent and it happens
I agree with that. One of the big issues is with control - all these gadgets need to be controlled, which means loads of remotes and/or geeky interfaces which other family members aren't happy with.
I want to have *controlled* access via the Web (so I can tell the heating to be on when I get home etc). But voice control would be great:
"Computer - switch television to BBC1 please"
"Computer - heat enough water for a bath please"
"Computer - tell me the weather forecast please"
"Computer - play some Kraftwerk please"
"Computer - what's 12 times 24 please?"
All very possible - need to integrate TV/MP3/Internet streaming/HVAC/normal computing functions. The fun bit is getting the voice recognition to work sensitively enough to work from a mike in each room (rather than have to carry a wireless lapel mike around).
And for contrast, I'd like to have one room in my house with no electricity. No little gadgets with a fan whirring away. No speakers. No harsh electric light. No telephones. Candles or oil lanterns. Open fire. Books. Peace.
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You need to turn them on first...
From BBC article: "The force said officers taking part in the pilot must comply with guidelines about when cameras are to be used, but that they will not be permanently switched on."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
Or forget about the complexities of a marking scheme that will only be found on a subset of dumped products, many of which will predate any mandatory scheme. Instead, how about analysing the trash on-the-fly? If only there was a cheap open source chemical analyser available...
I shall be celebrating at 3:14 on 15th September 2653
I can't find the article itself, but there's a short summary of it here.
If you do not, and you maintain that you can't compare the statistics, then there's no way you can say crimes are higher in the US either.
I don't think I ever claimed that crimes are higher in the US.
There is an objective reality. There are a certain number of crimes that occur in both countries each year. One country is more crime ridden than the other, even if only by a fraction of a percent. You assert we can't tell the difference.
No. I assert that we can't tell the difference from those sets of figures.
Again, if you can find a different report that you find suitable for comparison from either country, please post it and I'll read it. We can then discuss it.
Tell you what, why don't you start at the UK Stats Office:http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/crime-justice/crime/crime-trends/index.html. They explain when recorded crime is a better measure, and when a crime survey is better. If you look at the trend graphs, you can immediately see that in 2007/8 BCS reported 10 million incidents, while Police figures show only 5 million recorded crimes. Surveys report more crimes than police record. Or look at the Home Office report for 2007/8: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0708.pdf. Burglaries 300,000 according to police, 800,000 according to the survey. Measuring different things in different ways.
You ask in another post "If you are unwilling to consider why methods are picked, what implications those methods have, and what institutional goals are supported by those methods and implications, then you are the essentially the most likely to be bullshitted by statistics.". I suggest that this comment applies very well to the OP who tried to compare US recorded crime figures with UK victim survey figures. And to anyone who gullibly believed the comparison actually meant anything.
I invite you to poke around the official numbers for both the US and the UK and make a counter argument.
Those statistics are measuring quite different things, and cannot be meaningfully compared.
The US figures are offences recorded by the police.
The UK figures you give are from the British Crime Survey - a survey of people, who are asked if they have been victims of crime. Such surveys always give much higher figures, for a variety of reasons.
In many ways a crime survey gives more useful numbers, as it measures victims rather than crimes, and isn't subject to recording differences. But the two really cannot be compared.
Chuck'em out.
Given how many wars were fought in Europe in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, and how many in the second half of the 20th, something must have happened. If it wasn't US troops, what was it? Why were the horrors of WWII enough to convince Europeans not to fight each other, when the horrors of WWI weren't?
That's just so bizarre it's hard to know where to start...
Apart from the fact that Europeans still are fighting each other in a number of conflicts, even if there had been no armed conflict at all in Europe since WW2, why on Earth would you assume that US presence caused that? Especially given the conflicts that have occured when US troops have been present.
OK, "if it wasn't US troops, what was it?" how about:
All of these also happened around the end of WW2. And are as likely as your suggestion. Correlation does not imply causation.
If there are aliens out there they probably have tentacles reaching into space
Tentacles?
Or Noodly Appendages?
IANAFM also, but yes, I'd expect to see slower water, as we have extracted energy from it. With care, this need not be a bad thing - for example, groins have been constructed on parts of the Thames to slow the water near the banks, encouraging scour of the main shipping channel. Erect a vortex generator instead of groins and you can control flow and generate electricity. Downside is it may become too successful, and the silting could interfere with operation.
the problem seems not to be electronic voting so much as just a poor set of instructions.
Check out "usability" - eg Donald Norman. If you need to rely on detailed instructions, then you've got a usability issue.
Truth is, we don't know the intentions of those who withdrew their card early. But they were told that they had to press "Cancel" to cancel their vote. As they didn't "follow the instructions" for either voting or not voting, I'd say there's a usability problem.
(and yes, I know people don't always follow instructions on simple paper ballots)
The UK had its own domestic terrorists for decades: the IRA. Yet the government did not feel that such pervasive monitoring was necessary. Now, largely because of something that happened 3000 miles away, the UK feels that such pervasive monitoring is necessary.
I disagree - I don't think the change is that monitoring is suddenly *necessary*, more that it's suddenly *possible*.
Decades ago we didn't have the technology to routinely capture, store and process this information. Decades ago, the public might not have stood for it.
Now we have the technology. September 11th didn't make monitoring necessary, but did make it politically acceptable.
Why do governments build such systems? Because they can.
"Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter
You can try it if you like, but you'd far better notter"
Well all this baffles me. I roast (dry pan on medium high gas ring, lots of stirring) and to my mind nothing beats a really fresh roast - ground while still hot, so it fizzes up when you add water to it in the filter. There's a whole bunch of fresh zingy aromas and high notes that get lost in a day or so.
I'll allow that the beans settle down in a day or so and become more like commercial roasts, but one of the deep joys of home roasting is to sample the delightful flavours of a really fresh roast.
Maybe it's just me...
*sigh* try reading the link.
The poll is only open to US citizens, on production of their passport.
Looked like more than 20mph to me...
But 640K is more than anyone could ever need!
What do you mean a few hours before the action? It was posted 30 minutes after dawn where I am, you insensitive clod!
Although other posters point out that digital camera noise can be a problem, there are workarounds. For a start, ensure that you turn the LCD off, if possible. Try to let the camera cool down between shots.
Your camera may have a low noise setting. If not, take a long exposure photograph with the lens cap on. This "dark" frame will be noisy because of hot CCD cells. In Photoshop/whatever, subtract this image from your photograph to subtract the noise.
For best results, take several dark field images and average them.
More information and advice from Digital Camera Astrophotography
Except that most content-filtering packages will also prevent access to known open proxy servers. Credit them with some intelligence!
As others have mentioned, you should be able to get away with setting up a private proxy on a home machine - but make sure it's only visible/accessible to you, or the nanny software will eventually spot it, and block your home machine.
Apart from that, advise your friend to host explicit and non-explicit stuff on separate domains. Her main domain is already tainted - she'd need to outhost the clean stuff.
You'll never find out what the filtering algorithms are. I'm sure you have pure and noble reasons for wanting to tweak the system, but the bad guys out there would also love to know how to evade being blocked!
You don't even have to visit the website to agree:
"BY SENDING US AN E-MAIL OR OTHER COMMUNICATION, WHETHER DIRETLY OR INDIRECTLY, YOU ARE ASSERTING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THIS USER AGREEMENT, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS USER AGREEMENT, AND THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY AUTHORIZED TO ASSENT TO BE BOUND TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS PRESENTED IN THIS USER AGREEMENT. "
But that's quite a long way down the 20,000 word document, so you may not have noticed...
Why does every press release have to mention how they are doing it "better" than we Americans are.
Err, the only mention of Europe in the press release was the very last paragraph.. "Mrs Edelgard Bulmahn, German Minister for Research and Education, who is also chair of the ESA Council at ministerial level, said at the press conference: "Europe can be proud of this mission: Mars Express is an enormous success for the European space programme."
We are looking at the same press release, right? Because that quote doesn't seem to justify your assertion that ESA has a serious case of American Wang Envy
There is a place for Europe and the US and [insert name of country here] in space exploration. And justification in each country being proud of its successes, and congratulating the others on their successes.
If Mrs Bulmahn's comments offended you that much, then I apologise on her behalf, and on the behalf of The whole damn socialist European Union
And the exported products block copying US currency in non-US parts of the world. Now... does it just block dollars, or also euros? What about dinars?
I agree with that. One of the big issues is with control - all these gadgets need to be controlled, which means loads of remotes and/or geeky interfaces which other family members aren't happy with.
I want to have *controlled* access via the Web (so I can tell the heating to be on when I get home etc). But voice control would be great:
"Computer - switch television to BBC1 please"
"Computer - heat enough water for a bath please"
"Computer - tell me the weather forecast please"
"Computer - play some Kraftwerk please"
"Computer - what's 12 times 24 please?"
All very possible - need to integrate TV/MP3/Internet streaming/HVAC/normal computing functions. The fun bit is getting the voice recognition to work sensitively enough to work from a mike in each room (rather than have to carry a wireless lapel mike around).
And for contrast, I'd like to have one room in my house with no electricity. No little gadgets with a fan whirring away. No speakers. No harsh electric light. No telephones. Candles or oil lanterns. Open fire. Books. Peace.