Polygraph, and other assorted gadget do NOT detect lie. Ever. What they possibly detect is stress, (fear and its little cousin nervousness for example) which in some case may or may not be correlated to a lie. It is all based on putting the idea that "it works" in the mind of people it tests, and indeed sometimes law enforcement get confession from people (they CAN use the confession but may not use any lie detector crap, and recently even that was put under fire). There isn't really a good scientific background on it The Lie behind the lie detector.
Using odor instead of breathing heart beat and so on will not bring anymore science is this than pissing into a violin and expecting a concerto.
Quote On the flip side, without those regulations you can always turn around and resell a product that you realize that you don't want. You might still take a loss, but then, you went out and bought a product you didn't really want. Personally I'd rather people who buy products that they don't want take the loss instead of everyone.
Thsoe regulation do not cover second hand sale but first hand sale. So with or without those regulation you can both do the above as second hand sale.
Secondly there is a good reason to have SOME of such regulation. Without them it would be "CAVEAT EMPTOR" everywhere with the customer screwed up. Whether there are too much of them right now is open to interpretation, but after seeing the seedier part of the business side of such shop, I don't see anything wrong with the current regulation.
Beyond rhetoric, what clear military action was done in the last 10 years by North Korea in which they destroyed any foreign military facility (or even civilian one) or even shoot down a rocket carrying a satellite ? I am sorry but I usually ignore both rhetoric (US/EU/North korea), Rhetoric is good for politic, but just at that, beyond that you have to look at the action. And lately from all 3 aforementioned only one did indeed have an aggressive stance toward other nation.
You mean the high quality movie bootleg which are made with telecine by insider ? Because pre-release screening or after release screening, those movie are seay to recognize and of crappy quality. Not what you can find as BT even for 0D release.
Quote:Please don't forget that it is a subset of "religious people" who are fighting to discredit science and impose their beliefs via government and laws. There are plenty of religious people who don't support those more extreme views. Belief in God and a respect and enthusiasm for science are not mutually exclusive. Maybe you should try to be more careful about making that
distinction when using your vehement means.
See, if those nice people which are not the dark religious one would speak a tad bit more loudly, and fight way more that small subset, it would not be a problem. But it ain't happening. Only when the FULL spectrum of religion is attacked, the bigger subset raise the flag , protest , and say the smaller subset is responsible. Well. Yeah. You would be believable if you (the greater subset) did something against that plague. Surprisingly that is not what is apparent to the non-religious.
So.... When will be the nmext spontaneous big manifestation in the street, organized by you the bigger subset , on the street of oklahoma, to ask for tolerance of open idea, and when will you confront the smaller subset ? Don't let me hold my breath.
Giving them the habits of being checked and scanned, possibly print them and get DNA at school, as an adult they will have the habits of it getting done, and won't protest as loudly as those which are used to normal freedom. Start with the children, and when they are adult, they will get used to it, and some might EVEN ask for it as a security measure.
Since I dunno if you are sarcastic: To do an Own copy is fair use and authorized, even in the US, as long as you don't redistribute the original without destroying the copy, and as long as you don't redistribute the copy. Naturally content holder want YOU to think this is not authorized to do *any* copy. Not so. Anyway in the case above, there would be a good argument to be done that it is simply a contract renegotiation, and since the install software accepted the modified EULA, the negoziation was sucessfuly accepted on the software maker side:).
Copy the CD, usually the file with EULA is in EULA.TXT or similar in a directory. Change it. Reburn. Install. IF the CD/DVD is required in the drive, put the original when needed. All my EULA says something like "AEPERVIUS RULEZ" when i agree on them.
4) Quite a few of the companies running such systems are run by European companies that take all the profits back home rather than reinvesting in this country.
While I agree with the rest of your post, why is point 4) a bad things ? Shall we now boycott all US company in Europe on the ground that they bring the money back in the US, instead of Europe ? Don't you think it is a rather dumb argument , especially knowing how mostly bad can be protectionism in some case ? Because sooner or later it falls down in a tit-for-tat fight.
Before the widespread use of a vaccine against measles, its incidence was so high that infection with measles was felt to be "as inevitable as death and taxes."[3] Today, the incidence of measles has fallen to less than 1% of people under the age of 30 in countries with routine childhood vaccination.[citation needed]
The benefit of vaccination against measles in preventing illness, disability, and death has been well-documented. The first 20 years of licensed measles vaccination in the U.S. prevented an estimated 52 million cases of the disease, 17,400 cases of mental retardation, and 5,200 deaths.[4]
You aren't allergic to "vaccine" , you are maybe at most allergic to one of the component, and most probably not the one used to pump up your immune system, but highly probably other maybe like preserver, anti fungus etc... Still I would like to see more statistic or evidence of such allergy or how many pro-million of fatal reaction there is.
As for long term consequence, there has been no long term consequence up to now for how many vaccine ? How long will you draw your fear rule you ? 50 years ? 150 years ? 20 years is ALREADY a long time. I got my first shots of MMR far more than 20 years ago FFS. So your 20 years limit is over.
And in the mean time children have died in the UK.
1) Dear Techie, everything you think you know about law is probably incorrect. You are NOT a professional in law, also called lawyer. Forget "CSI" forget "law and order"
2) Don't ask anything but "am I arrested?" and if yes "I want a lawyer" that is it.
3) did I mention get a lawyer and shut the fuck up ? Even policemen admit anything you say, ANYTHING, will be filtered and used against you. Even policemen admit you should shut up and get a lawyer.
4) whatever you think of beyond reasonable doubt and so on : forget it. Get a professional. Also called Lawyer. Follow his/her advice.
Maybe after all this was only 2 points. But that all you need to know.
You have no assurance at all that tech will solve everything. There might very well be a limit intrinsic to our environment on how much power we can produce. Fusion may never ever come. Saying that human innovation is invincible is akin to sit on your behind and wait for things to sort themselves out by somebody else. "somebody will find something". Yeah right. A good planning is one that take into account only today's technology. You can always react as a contingency if a new tech comes up and make everything obsolete, but you cannot base your planning on it. I posted the same argument not too long ago. The mod which modded you insightful are on crack. Past progress don't mean future progress will be sustained. Past problem solved by progress don't mean future problem will be solved by tech.
Javascript / Ajax and whatever scripting language is more akin to a french kiss : you don't mingle corporal fluids with any women/men you meet in the street, or if you do, you don't complain when you get ill/herpes or whatever. What you are telling us is in essence is "you are missing out on French kissing/new web functionality" what we are telling you is in essence "sorry but I kiss/enable script on only trusted women/men-web site I trust a bit ad not random stranger/web site".
They just love to taunt christian with the idea, knowing very well that the bible , made by herd folk culture of 6K years ago, and another part made by paysant culture of 2K years ago, would not take into account something as life on another planet, because it would never come to their mind. I certainly like to taunt a few I know with that.
As for religion and science being compatible, they are not. Science is based on a moving knowledge base, hopefully increasing based on evidence taken from the environment. Religion is based on a relatively frozen assumption taken from the mind of a few. If there is ANY incidental compatibility, it would be a temporary state, it would quickly soon thrown out as soon as science move on. Indeed what we observe today is religion , and mostly the bible, being utterly abandoned as an explanation from natural things, except by a few fanatic. You can certainly be religious and apply science, but as soon as you let your religiousness skew the scientific method, you have lost your way.
Maybe some are exaggerating their ire that MS installed something as a FF extension. And if it was ONLY this, the story would have been laughed at by the majority of moderate people. But the fact you are missing which make people angry is the extension could not be uninstalled. How many of those extension above you cite are uninstallable ? They would be as guilty, but I have the feeling this is not the case.
I mean, should we not say "parent take notes?", when we here on slashdot keep saying people to pay attention to what kid plays ? Or even why not buyer-beware or "everybody should pay attention" or whatever ? Why the immediate jump to marketing (consumerism) and lawyer (sue-happy) ? Or could you at least add an emoticon if you were sarcastic ?
The fact that there is no immediate intoxication test has no bearing. This is only an argument based on easyness of persecution, NOT on realy damage, or even (gasp) freedom. Anyway there was for a long time no immediate alcohol intoxication test, except trying to make you walk a straight line. Alcohol was still not forbidden as the aforementioned substance is. And why the hell personal freedom should take a BACKSIT to easyness of prosecution ??
Forgetting the freedom discussion, but looking at the damage and illness prevention, alcohol seems all things counted MORE deadly for the persons itself, and MORE deadly for the 3rd party (altercation, car incident etc...) than marijuana is. And if you add possible good side effect at those, it becomes quite clear that there is more to this debate than any rationality whatsoever.
You cannot extrapolate from the occurence of "new technology" in the past to help us, onto future new technology coming at time to help us. New technology is in general an unknown, and thus you should NEVER plan with them in mind. The new technology could as well NEVER happen and so much screw you up in an irreversible way. Which is why it is insane on planning on new tech coming (ne crude extraction tech, new energy generation tech (including fusion), new food production tech, new recyclage tech , new medicine tech etc...). A sane planning should always be based on current tech. You can always adapt your planning if a new tech comes up. You can't if you are waiting for some new tech to come (when ? In how far the problem would be solved ? What problem would be left ? etc...). waiting for new tech to solve your problem is akin to waiting that the problem solve itself. And that is totally utterly lost on you.
1-18 ghz is way way broader than a very thin swat of visible light. Just looking at the spectra should show it. Mod me actually uninformative or overrater.
Saying "The cloak that the researchers built works with wavelengths of light ranging from about 1 to 18 gigahertz--a swath as broad as the visible spectrum."is quite exaggerated. a range from 1 to 18 gigahertz is not as broad as a range from 400 to 750 terahertz. That is 350000 Ghz difference compared to 17 ghz difference (or many thousand cm-1 comapred to less than a few cm-1). I wonder how they say it is as broad. Article stinks, unless I missed something or made a terrible error in thinking.
Once you created an account there, you pretty much waived any of your content rights there
If you mean the copyright by the content right, then it is wrong.
The copyright of any video you made still belong to you. It would need far more than an EULA to "give" them the copyright. What probably happens is that you grant them perpetual free licence to copy or delete or whatever. If on the other hand you meant that the playing of the content there is dependent on their arbitrary whim, you are correct, if their lawyer aren't stupid they forsaw this and put in the EULA that they can at any moment yank/delete/mute/stop the image of any of your video.
The problem here is clearly the teen which is a sociopath, not the fact he played halo 3. It was halo 3 his parent withdrew, but it could have been a red toy car, or whatever he was using at that time. Once you are in your teen you are supposed to be able to separate fantasy to reality, and to know that death is definitive. If you don't even know or realize that, then you clearly have a mental problem. The guy was 15 at the time he shot his parents.
Miscellaneous quotes : (http://news.aol.com/article/ohio-teen-killed-mom-over-video-game/302589) Petric may have been addicted, but the evidence also showed he planned the crime for weeks, said Burge, who found the teenager guilty of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and other charges.
Deputy prosecuting attorney Anthony Cillo argued during the trial that the teenager had planned to make it appear to be a murder-suicide by putting the gun in his father's hand.
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Polygraph, and other assorted gadget do NOT detect lie. Ever. What they possibly detect is stress, (fear and its little cousin nervousness for example) which in some case may or may not be correlated to a lie. It is all based on putting the idea that "it works" in the mind of people it tests, and indeed sometimes law enforcement get confession from people (they CAN use the confession but may not use any lie detector crap, and recently even that was put under fire). There isn't really a good scientific background on it The Lie behind the lie detector.
Using odor instead of breathing heart beat and so on will not bring anymore science is this than pissing into a violin and expecting a concerto.
Quote On the flip side, without those regulations you can always turn around and resell a product that you realize that you don't want. You might still take a loss, but then, you went out and bought a product you didn't really want. Personally I'd rather people who buy products that they don't want take the loss instead of everyone.
Thsoe regulation do not cover second hand sale but first hand sale. So with or without those regulation you can both do the above as second hand sale.
Secondly there is a good reason to have SOME of such regulation. Without them it would be "CAVEAT EMPTOR" everywhere with the customer screwed up. Whether there are too much of them right now is open to interpretation, but after seeing the seedier part of the business side of such shop, I don't see anything wrong with the current regulation.
Beyond rhetoric, what clear military action was done in the last 10 years by North Korea in which they destroyed any foreign military facility (or even civilian one) or even shoot down a rocket carrying a satellite ? I am sorry but I usually ignore both rhetoric (US/EU/North korea), Rhetoric is good for politic, but just at that, beyond that you have to look at the action. And lately from all 3 aforementioned only one did indeed have an aggressive stance toward other nation.
You mean the high quality movie bootleg which are made with telecine by insider ? Because pre-release screening or after release screening, those movie are seay to recognize and of crappy quality. Not what you can find as BT even for 0D release.
Quote: Please don't forget that it is a subset of "religious people" who are fighting to discredit science and impose their beliefs via government and laws. There are plenty of religious people who don't support those more extreme views. Belief in God and a respect and enthusiasm for science are not mutually exclusive. Maybe you should try to be more careful about making that distinction when using your vehement means.
See, if those nice people which are not the dark religious one would speak a tad bit more loudly, and fight way more that small subset, it would not be a problem. But it ain't happening. Only when the FULL spectrum of religion is attacked, the bigger subset raise the flag , protest , and say the smaller subset is responsible. Well. Yeah. You would be believable if you (the greater subset) did something against that plague. Surprisingly that is not what is apparent to the non-religious.
So.... When will be the nmext spontaneous big manifestation in the street, organized by you the bigger subset , on the street of oklahoma, to ask for tolerance of open idea, and when will you confront the smaller subset ? Don't let me hold my breath.
Giving them the habits of being checked and scanned, possibly print them and get DNA at school, as an adult they will have the habits of it getting done, and won't protest as loudly as those which are used to normal freedom. Start with the children, and when they are adult, they will get used to it, and some might EVEN ask for it as a security measure.
Since when can police install camera on private ground or private shop ?
Since I dunno if you are sarcastic: To do an Own copy is fair use and authorized, even in the US, as long as you don't redistribute the original without destroying the copy, and as long as you don't redistribute the copy. Naturally content holder want YOU to think this is not authorized to do *any* copy. Not so. Anyway in the case above, there would be a good argument to be done that it is simply a contract renegotiation, and since the install software accepted the modified EULA, the negoziation was sucessfuly accepted on the software maker side :).
Copy the CD, usually the file with EULA is in EULA.TXT or similar in a directory. Change it. Reburn. Install. IF the CD/DVD is required in the drive, put the original when needed. All my EULA says something like "AEPERVIUS RULEZ" when i agree on them.
4) Quite a few of the companies running such systems are run by European companies that take all the profits back home rather than reinvesting in this country.
While I agree with the rest of your post, why is point 4) a bad things ? Shall we now boycott all US company in Europe on the ground that they bring the money back in the US, instead of Europe ? Don't you think it is a rather dumb argument , especially knowing how mostly bad can be protectionism in some case ? Because sooner or later it falls down in a tit-for-tat fight.
Wiki :
Before the widespread use of a vaccine against measles, its incidence was so high that infection with measles was felt to be "as inevitable as death and taxes."[3] Today, the incidence of measles has fallen to less than 1% of people under the age of 30 in countries with routine childhood vaccination.[citation needed] The benefit of vaccination against measles in preventing illness, disability, and death has been well-documented. The first 20 years of licensed measles vaccination in the U.S. prevented an estimated 52 million cases of the disease, 17,400 cases of mental retardation, and 5,200 deaths.[4]
You aren't allergic to "vaccine" , you are maybe at most allergic to one of the component, and most probably not the one used to pump up your immune system, but highly probably other maybe like preserver, anti fungus etc... Still I would like to see more statistic or evidence of such allergy or how many pro-million of fatal reaction there is.
As for long term consequence, there has been no long term consequence up to now for how many vaccine ? How long will you draw your fear rule you ? 50 years ? 150 years ? 20 years is ALREADY a long time. I got my first shots of MMR far more than 20 years ago FFS. So your 20 years limit is over.
And in the mean time children have died in the UK.
where production of paper was ceased last month in January 2008
Last month was in 2009. I hope you are more reliable than that on your other article.
1) Dear Techie, everything you think you know about law is probably incorrect. You are NOT a professional in law, also called lawyer. Forget "CSI" forget "law and order"
2) Don't ask anything but "am I arrested?" and if yes "I want a lawyer" that is it.
3) did I mention get a lawyer and shut the fuck up ? Even policemen admit anything you say, ANYTHING, will be filtered and used against you. Even policemen admit you should shut up and get a lawyer.
4) whatever you think of beyond reasonable doubt and so on : forget it. Get a professional. Also called Lawyer. Follow his/her advice.
Maybe after all this was only 2 points. But that all you need to know.
You have no assurance at all that tech will solve everything. There might very well be a limit intrinsic to our environment on how much power we can produce. Fusion may never ever come. Saying that human innovation is invincible is akin to sit on your behind and wait for things to sort themselves out by somebody else. "somebody will find something". Yeah right. A good planning is one that take into account only today's technology. You can always react as a contingency if a new tech comes up and make everything obsolete, but you cannot base your planning on it. I posted the same argument not too long ago. The mod which modded you insightful are on crack. Past progress don't mean future progress will be sustained. Past problem solved by progress don't mean future problem will be solved by tech.
Javascript / Ajax and whatever scripting language is more akin to a french kiss : you don't mingle corporal fluids with any women/men you meet in the street, or if you do, you don't complain when you get ill/herpes or whatever. What you are telling us is in essence is "you are missing out on French kissing/new web functionality" what we are telling you is in essence "sorry but I kiss/enable script on only trusted women/men-web site I trust a bit ad not random stranger/web site".
They just love to taunt christian with the idea, knowing very well that the bible , made by herd folk culture of 6K years ago, and another part made by paysant culture of 2K years ago, would not take into account something as life on another planet, because it would never come to their mind. I certainly like to taunt a few I know with that.
As for religion and science being compatible, they are not. Science is based on a moving knowledge base, hopefully increasing based on evidence taken from the environment. Religion is based on a relatively frozen assumption taken from the mind of a few. If there is ANY incidental compatibility, it would be a temporary state, it would quickly soon thrown out as soon as science move on. Indeed what we observe today is religion , and mostly the bible, being utterly abandoned as an explanation from natural things, except by a few fanatic. You can certainly be religious and apply science, but as soon as you let your religiousness skew the scientific method, you have lost your way.
Maybe some are exaggerating their ire that MS installed something as a FF extension. And if it was ONLY this, the story would have been laughed at by the majority of moderate people. But the fact you are missing which make people angry is the extension could not be uninstalled. How many of those extension above you cite are uninstallable ? They would be as guilty, but I have the feeling this is not the case.
I mean, should we not say "parent take notes?", when we here on slashdot keep saying people to pay attention to what kid plays ? Or even why not buyer-beware or "everybody should pay attention" or whatever ? Why the immediate jump to marketing (consumerism) and lawyer (sue-happy) ? Or could you at least add an emoticon if you were sarcastic ?
The fact that there is no immediate intoxication test has no bearing. This is only an argument based on easyness of persecution, NOT on realy damage, or even (gasp) freedom. Anyway there was for a long time no immediate alcohol intoxication test, except trying to make you walk a straight line. Alcohol was still not forbidden as the aforementioned substance is. And why the hell personal freedom should take a BACKSIT to easyness of prosecution ??
Forgetting the freedom discussion, but looking at the damage and illness prevention, alcohol seems all things counted MORE deadly for the persons itself, and MORE deadly for the 3rd party (altercation, car incident etc...) than marijuana is. And if you add possible good side effect at those, it becomes quite clear that there is more to this debate than any rationality whatsoever.
You cannot extrapolate from the occurence of "new technology" in the past to help us, onto future new technology coming at time to help us. New technology is in general an unknown, and thus you should NEVER plan with them in mind. The new technology could as well NEVER happen and so much screw you up in an irreversible way. Which is why it is insane on planning on new tech coming (ne crude extraction tech, new energy generation tech (including fusion), new food production tech, new recyclage tech , new medicine tech etc...). A sane planning should always be based on current tech. You can always adapt your planning if a new tech comes up. You can't if you are waiting for some new tech to come (when ? In how far the problem would be solved ? What problem would be left ? etc...). waiting for new tech to solve your problem is akin to waiting that the problem solve itself. And that is totally utterly lost on you.
1-18 ghz is way way broader than a very thin swat of visible light. Just looking at the spectra should show it. Mod me actually uninformative or overrater.
Saying "The cloak that the researchers built works with wavelengths of light ranging from about 1 to 18 gigahertz--a swath as broad as the visible spectrum." is quite exaggerated. a range from 1 to 18 gigahertz is not as broad as a range from 400 to 750 terahertz. That is 350000 Ghz difference compared to 17 ghz difference (or many thousand cm-1 comapred to less than a few cm-1). I wonder how they say it is as broad. Article stinks, unless I missed something or made a terrible error in thinking.
Once you created an account there, you pretty much waived any of your content rights there
If you mean the copyright by the content right, then it is wrong. The copyright of any video you made still belong to you. It would need far more than an EULA to "give" them the copyright. What probably happens is that you grant them perpetual free licence to copy or delete or whatever.
If on the other hand you meant that the playing of the content there is dependent on their arbitrary whim, you are correct, if their lawyer aren't stupid they forsaw this and put in the EULA that they can at any moment yank/delete/mute/stop the image of any of your video.
The problem here is clearly the teen which is a sociopath, not the fact he played halo 3. It was halo 3 his parent withdrew, but it could have been a red toy car, or whatever he was using at that time. Once you are in your teen you are supposed to be able to separate fantasy to reality, and to know that death is definitive. If you don't even know or realize that, then you clearly have a mental problem. The guy was 15 at the time he shot his parents.
Miscellaneous quotes : (http://news.aol.com/article/ohio-teen-killed-mom-over-video-game/302589)
Petric may have been addicted, but the evidence also showed he planned the crime for weeks, said Burge, who found the teenager guilty of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and other charges.
Deputy prosecuting attorney Anthony Cillo argued during the trial that the teenager had planned to make it appear to be a murder-suicide by putting the gun in his father's hand.