The case against Zimmerman is weak at best, and certainly appears to be politically motivated. That doesn't mean he won't be convicted though.
Yes, they'll probably get their compromise verdict of manslaughter. Which will go to appeal. And Zimmerman will serve out the entirety of his sentence and then some, and then have his conviction overturned, unless he's killed in prison.
That's because project management in software is mostly mythical. In practice, having a project manager just means you'll have TWO pointy-haired types running around demanding ridiculous things. But one will have a Gantt chart so it's so much better.
Unfortunately, as with all freedom-seeking organizations, the EFFs scorecard consists of losses which have already occurred, partial losses, and losses which will occur in the future. DMCA? Total loss. Copyright extensions? Total loss. CISPA? Stopped for now, we'll see it in the future. Broadcast flag? Delay, then loss -- the FCC now allows cable companies to encrypt everything, and the government is attempting to end TV broadcasting entirely to give the spectrum to cell phone companies. Surveillance? Total loss, as a Snowden has revealed. Lawsuits against corporate leakers? They may have won on paper, but the chilling effect appears to have ended the juicy leaks.
Not really their fault; it's just that the age of freedom is over. Few care, and those who do are mostly against it.
That's why I'm a progressive. The America that the conservatives want never existed. But, the America that the progressives want at least is theoretically possible to some degree.
Yeah, but we already HAD the Soviet Union, and it was worse. Why would you ever want it?
See, the idea is that they're supposed to spy on people who mean us harm. Not on everyone.
How are they to know who means us harm, if they aren't spying on everyone? That's not a joke, that sort of paranoid reasoning makes perfect sense... to a spy.
Unless that big city is New York or San Francisco and you're not filthy rich.
Contrast that with typical suburbia, where you might have 12 windows and 10 feet of airspace separating you from your neighbors
I live in very typical suburban NJ. One end of my house has two small windows, which face the blank wall of my neighbor's garage. In between is my garage, plus maybe 15 feet of my yard, a retaining wall, and about 20 feet of his yard, with a few evergreens and maples in the space. On the other side I have a blank wall (though I could add windows if I wanted to) facing the back of the neighbor's house though a thicket of trees. McMansion-on-a-postage-stamp developments aren't all there is to "typical suburbia", any more than high-rises are all there are to cities.
and you probably aren't allowed to build anything more substantial than a 6' wall with 8' hedge before the HOA will come after you for creating an "eyesore" or blocking your neighbor's "view" (of your yard).
No HOA, though municipal ordinances could be an issue. Probably not, seeing as one of my neighbors has a 10-foot chain link fence in their front yard. And if you think HOAs are bad (and they are), NYC rules are far worse. The only things worse than that are wetlands and historic district regulations
Narrow townhomes often have three, four, or more stories. Some people hate it, but for others, there's just something totally cool about a zig-zag floor plan where the front rooms are offset by 1/2 floor from the rear rooms & the stairs do double-duty as both stairways and interior hallways.
Here in suburbia we call that a split level.
and official "jackpot" status if your garage has a pit-type hydraulic car stacker like this one (which allows you to independently park two cars in a single-car garage with high ceiling and pit)
I suppose I could turn my 2-car into a 4-car with that, but I don't think it's worth the cost.
The OP takes 90 minutes to do 49 miles, driving. I take public transit, and it takes me 60 minutes... to do 15 miles. And this is in the NYC area, which supposedly has the best public transit in the US. Public transit isn't an answer.
Anyway, I think the city thing doesn't have all that long to run. The bulge of the millennial generation is getting older (and city schools haven't gotten any better, by and large -- not all these millennials are forever-virginal slashdotters. Not to mention mass transit seems a lot less appealing when you're trying to drag kids around on it), and city cost of living is getting higher.
Batteries aren't the only knockoffs that are awful. The quality of Chinese knockoff chargers is notoriously bad.
Yep, over on the R/C hobby forums people have disassembled some of the knockoff hobby chargers. Some are exact copies down to the circuit board layout, but they'll do dumb stuff like use 10% or 20% tolerance resistors instead of 1%. For charging lithium batteries voltage control is crucial, so that's just asking to destroy batteries. The especially stupid thing is that you could buy the correct components at retail, replace them yourself, and have a charger that works but STILL costs tons less than the real thing. But apparently either the knockoff makers are exceptionally greedy or exceptionally incompetent or both.
I expect laptop battery chargers are pretty much the same thing. Put them on a scope and you'll see too-high voltages with a lot of ripple.
What's really unfair about this is that I'm working extra to pay for all this, yet she can leave me on a whim and I have to compensate her forever for the time she is spending at home.
Forever? Then you were damn stupid to move to or get married in Colorado. Spousal support isn't forever in most jurisdictions.
Yes. It might not be my moral obligation to prevent the persecution of someone innocent of wrongdoing, but I certainly have a duty not to voluntarily participate in said persecution. If I'm faced with the choice of voting one way and participating in injustice, and voting the other way and violating the judge's instructions, I'm going to vote against injustice every time.
If the judge attempts to get me, beforehand, to promise to decide the case according to his instructions, I will refuse. If I am required by law or under threat of contempt to make said promise, I will make it, then do whatever I would have done anyway.
I'm wondering if they have separated the compressor and turbine stages in a conventional jet engine in an effort to get a fuel economy or weight improvement.
I cheated and read the article, and it appears that is what they've done.
However, they haven't actually built it; they have a 1/5 scale model, but it's using an electric motor (so it's not clear what it proves), and furthermore the laws of aerodynamics are not scale-invariant.
It's not clear why they're trumpeting the lack of a tail rotor as a new thing; this isn't a NOTAR design (single main rotor with no tail rotor); it's a coaxial helicopter, which is nothing new at all.
Decades of prohibition against relatively harmless drugs, and preferentially the ones that poor minorities use
Both powder cocaine (rich people) and crystal meth (poor white folk) are illegal too. So is ecstasy (rich trendy young people), and pot (EVERYBODY...well, every ethnicity and income group, anyway). The war on drugs may not be equal opportunity, but it does get in a plenty of licks against everyone.
In the quoted blog, Martin Graesslin is basically asking if censoring zero-content hate speech from fanboys and trolls is a compromise on supporting full freedom of speech.
He's concern trolling free speech over trolls. Oh, the irony.
In the USA, we make this differentiation. You are free to express any opinion, but may not do so with "hateful" language. "Fighting words" are forbidden in public forums.
False, and false. The "fighting words" doctrine is almost impossible to apply to online speech, as it requires that the "their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace". This ain't Canada. We may have the NSA reading all our profanity, but we still have the right to say it.
If speaking and not speaking can both result in incriminating yourself, then would this mean that the only way to use your 5th amendment right of not incriminating yourself, be to lie to the police & court?
It's not a Catch-22. It's not even new law. If the cops ask you to submit to questioning and you refuse and demand an attorney or cite your fifth amendment rights, they still can't use that against you (at least not until the next Supreme Court case to come down the line). But if you answer some questions but not others, they can use that against you.
Bottom line hasn't changed: Don't talk to the police beyond identifying yourself.
(I am not a lawyer and do not play one on the internet. Much.)
... just fscking shoot him. Well, maybe not. But you might ask him how we got from Smith v. Maryland, which determined that the police could legally collect dialed numbers from suspects without a warrant, all the way to where we are, where the NSA and FBI can legally collect everything about phone calls except the actual voice, on EVERYBODY, ALWAYS?
This makes little sense. The purpose of using encryption is to prevent someone tapping into the conversation and hearing what you are saying. The NSA is instead going to each of the people you talk to and asking "what did russotto say?" and getting an answer in real time. Encryption does NOTHING to change this.
Hence "end to end" encryption. If I call my mom, the NSA should be able to find out what I said from exactly two people : me, and my mom. Not Verizon, not Bellsouth.
"How do we use technology to keep Bloomberg from being a complete and utter moron?"
Sorry, not possible.
"How do we use technology to turn the stock market from a slot machine with nanosecond-precision timing into an investment market for stocks and bonds?"
Turns out the stock market is actually in New Jersey, so not his department.
"How do we use technology to clean up New York so that it doesn't look like a landfill with people living in it?"
Drone strikes on everyone.
"How do we use technology to make housing costs sane?"
Build more fscking houses, an idea anathema in the Bay Area, where BANANA is the rule
"How do we use technology to make electric cars affordable?"
Drone strikes on all the poor people.
"How do we use technology to ensure police officers are doing their jobs correctly?"
Change the dictionaries so this is a tautology; whatever the police are doing is correct. Works for Bloomberg.
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I need a new crystal ball.
Yes, they'll probably get their compromise verdict of manslaughter. Which will go to appeal. And Zimmerman will serve out the entirety of his sentence and then some, and then have his conviction overturned, unless he's killed in prison.
That's because project management in software is mostly mythical. In practice, having a project manager just means you'll have TWO pointy-haired types running around demanding ridiculous things. But one will have a Gantt chart so it's so much better.
Unfortunately, as with all freedom-seeking organizations, the EFFs scorecard consists of losses which have already occurred, partial losses, and losses which will occur in the future. DMCA? Total loss. Copyright extensions? Total loss. CISPA? Stopped for now, we'll see it in the future. Broadcast flag? Delay, then loss -- the FCC now allows cable companies to encrypt everything, and the government is attempting to end TV broadcasting entirely to give the spectrum to cell phone companies. Surveillance? Total loss, as a Snowden has revealed. Lawsuits against corporate leakers? They may have won on paper, but the chilling effect appears to have ended the juicy leaks.
Not really their fault; it's just that the age of freedom is over. Few care, and those who do are mostly against it.
The Republicans like this on principle, and the Democrats like it as long as their man is in charge. So there will be no change.
Yeah, but we already HAD the Soviet Union, and it was worse. Why would you ever want it?
How are they to know who means us harm, if they aren't spying on everyone? That's not a joke, that sort of paranoid reasoning makes perfect sense... to a spy.
Unless that big city is New York or San Francisco and you're not filthy rich.
I live in very typical suburban NJ. One end of my house has two small windows, which face the blank wall of my neighbor's garage. In between is my garage, plus maybe 15 feet of my yard, a retaining wall, and about 20 feet of his yard, with a few evergreens and maples in the space. On the other side I have a blank wall (though I could add windows if I wanted to) facing the back of the neighbor's house though a thicket of trees. McMansion-on-a-postage-stamp developments aren't all there is to "typical suburbia", any more than high-rises are all there are to cities.
No HOA, though municipal ordinances could be an issue. Probably not, seeing as one of my neighbors has a 10-foot chain link fence in their front yard. And if you think HOAs are bad (and they are), NYC rules are far worse. The only things worse than that are wetlands and historic district regulations
Here in suburbia we call that a split level.
I suppose I could turn my 2-car into a 4-car with that, but I don't think it's worth the cost.
The OP takes 90 minutes to do 49 miles, driving. I take public transit, and it takes me 60 minutes... to do 15 miles. And this is in the NYC area, which supposedly has the best public transit in the US. Public transit isn't an answer.
Anyway, I think the city thing doesn't have all that long to run. The bulge of the millennial generation is getting older (and city schools haven't gotten any better, by and large -- not all these millennials are forever-virginal slashdotters. Not to mention mass transit seems a lot less appealing when you're trying to drag kids around on it), and city cost of living is getting higher.
Yep, over on the R/C hobby forums people have disassembled some of the knockoff hobby chargers. Some are exact copies down to the circuit board layout, but they'll do dumb stuff like use 10% or 20% tolerance resistors instead of 1%. For charging lithium batteries voltage control is crucial, so that's just asking to destroy batteries. The especially stupid thing is that you could buy the correct components at retail, replace them yourself, and have a charger that works but STILL costs tons less than the real thing. But apparently either the knockoff makers are exceptionally greedy or exceptionally incompetent or both.
I expect laptop battery chargers are pretty much the same thing. Put them on a scope and you'll see too-high voltages with a lot of ripple.
Right. As I noted in the firehose article, this is third party batteries only and Apple batteries still only catch fire if you hold them wrong.
Slashdot, owned by Dice... the cases for incompetence and malice are both so strong....
Forever? Then you were damn stupid to move to or get married in Colorado. Spousal support isn't forever in most jurisdictions.
Yes. It might not be my moral obligation to prevent the persecution of someone innocent of wrongdoing, but I certainly have a duty not to voluntarily participate in said persecution. If I'm faced with the choice of voting one way and participating in injustice, and voting the other way and violating the judge's instructions, I'm going to vote against injustice every time.
If the judge attempts to get me, beforehand, to promise to decide the case according to his instructions, I will refuse. If I am required by law or under threat of contempt to make said promise, I will make it, then do whatever I would have done anyway.
I cheated and read the article, and it appears that is what they've done.
However, they haven't actually built it; they have a 1/5 scale model, but it's using an electric motor (so it's not clear what it proves), and furthermore the laws of aerodynamics are not scale-invariant.
It's not clear why they're trumpeting the lack of a tail rotor as a new thing; this isn't a NOTAR design (single main rotor with no tail rotor); it's a coaxial helicopter, which is nothing new at all.
Both powder cocaine (rich people) and crystal meth (poor white folk) are illegal too. So is ecstasy (rich trendy young people), and pot (EVERYBODY...well, every ethnicity and income group, anyway). The war on drugs may not be equal opportunity, but it does get in a plenty of licks against everyone.
It'd be a damned shame if one of my R/C helicopters crashed into one of theirs. A damned shame.
He's concern trolling free speech over trolls. Oh, the irony.
False, and false. The "fighting words" doctrine is almost impossible to apply to online speech, as it requires that the "their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace". This ain't Canada. We may have the NSA reading all our profanity, but we still have the right to say it.
It's not a Catch-22. It's not even new law. If the cops ask you to submit to questioning and you refuse and demand an attorney or cite your fifth amendment rights, they still can't use that against you (at least not until the next Supreme Court case to come down the line). But if you answer some questions but not others, they can use that against you.
Bottom line hasn't changed: Don't talk to the police beyond identifying yourself.
(I am not a lawyer and do not play one on the internet. Much.)
... just fscking shoot him. Well, maybe not. But you might ask him how we got from Smith v. Maryland, which determined that the police could legally collect dialed numbers from suspects without a warrant, all the way to where we are, where the NSA and FBI can legally collect everything about phone calls except the actual voice, on EVERYBODY, ALWAYS?
Hence "end to end" encryption. If I call my mom, the NSA should be able to find out what I said from exactly two people : me, and my mom. Not Verizon, not Bellsouth.
They probably can't MITM everything (though perhaps in a few years...). However, a good solution for offline key exchange would be nice too.
There's precious little we can do about traffic analysis. But as for content, we can at least make the NSA work for it.
Sorry, not possible.
Turns out the stock market is actually in New Jersey, so not his department.
Drone strikes on everyone.
Build more fscking houses, an idea anathema in the Bay Area, where BANANA is the rule
Drone strikes on all the poor people.
Change the dictionaries so this is a tautology; whatever the police are doing is correct. Works for Bloomberg.
...for the biological and biomedical research industries of other countries.
Evidently you've never SEEN _Atlas Shrugged_. "Megatons" is the appropriate unit for that tome, even if it's printed in 3pt type on onionskin.