"I was not aware that the New York City public schools were considered 'higher education '. "
Yes, that guy must be a foreigner. Only a foreigner would confuse "higher education" with high school. It's an easy mistake to make, since most foreigners learn in high school what Americans only start learning in Colleges and Universities.
To tell you the truth, I am not much of a Microsoft user, so I don't know. The only statement I was taking exception to was the one that said overseas people were just pasting scripts into forums.
In the forums I've been in, people either answered questions without using templates, or if the answer had already been posted, they posted a link referencing the previous thread or the previous knowledge base article on the question.
"Do you miss the absurdity that 49% of people could vote against the recall (arguably "for" Davis) but the new governor would be some millionaire jackass with 2% of the vote? It's a bad law."
When Gray Davis interfered with the Republican Primary, to make sure only the *weaker* candidate Bill Simon won, he said it may not have been fair, but it *was* legal. Now when something legal, but *unfair* happens to him, he cries like a little baby. That's what I would call poetic justice.
"Supporting newsgroups is very cheap and also very easy to farm out overseas to folks who really do nothing but paste in answers from scripts. "
Your fear of overseas workers is clouding your judgement. The main reason people go to newsgroups is *precisely* because they want to avoid the cut and paste replies of unskilled people. And the main reason a company will support a newsgroup is precisely because their own customers (some of them skilled) will contribute to it without getting paid.
But if you know of a company stupid enough to do what you say they do -- please post a link to their forums. If you're speaking from personal experience, I'll assume you'll have a link for us. Right?
Not to belabor the point or to be utterly paranoid, but an additional, related area of inquiry might be the effect of media on people's memories and perceptions.
The Split Personality Disorder was given as such an example. Before any book was written about Split Personality, there were only one or two cases in which the symptoms might have fit that disorder. And those one or two cases were recorded in a space of 50 years. Then as soon as a fictional book was written on the subject, thousands of people started showing the symptoms of the Split Personality Disorder depicted in the book. And when a new book like Sybil or a new movie was released on the subject, one could see a spike in the number of cases found. And the people affected would invariably manifest the same new different symptoms that had been depicted in the new book/movie.
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, also has some good examples of the same phenomena.
What course materials are you folks looking at? Has he used any police training materials?
There was one extract of some training materials for the police, but it was from a third party company and it wasn't much. Most of his materials on cops came from his own work. This guy has been testifying against cops for more than 30 years and on average it seemed he was working on two new cases a week. He would show up only for one lecture a week, the two other lectures, his Teaching Assistants would set up videos of him testifying or something.
There were some detailed government reports on Chinese reeducation camps, North Korean POW interrogation techniques, and KGB interrogation techniques. There were some case studies on the Moonies, Jesuit monks, the US military, psychological counter groups, drug rehabilitation programs, and many cults I can't remember the names of. And there were some studies on false memories, lie detectors, hypnosis, and abuses of patient-therapist relationships.
Overall, it was one of the most interesting class I've ever taken, but it left a really bad taste in my mouth.
As far as the syllabus that you linked to, it looks like the classic "Did daddy touch you this way?" and then operator demonstrates with anatomically correct dolls. Kid goes "uh hunh."
The page I linked to is to the page of the Professor who taught my class. The papers referenced there don't even begin to describe what this guy has shown us.
That guy is actually a professional expert witness. He does cults, murder cases, pyromania, theft and pretty much anything that involves getting a confession from a poor schmuck. That's his primary occupation. He uses the fact that he is a Professor and a lecturer at UC Berkeley as a way to gain credibility as a witness.
The advice you give about shutting up is pretty sound. It's too bad that most people are not ready for the kind of pressure that cops will exert on them.
Arguing with the crazy man at the door, while his buddies went to the back of your house, is not a good idea. Even if you win that argument, the man and his buddies will be long gone by the time you discover what's amiss.
...the anal-retentive legal world of SCO IP, they would have to comply.
SCO is not anal-retentive, SCO is lead by a bunch of shrewd scam artists. The only people that might be anal-retentive are the ignorant corporate customers that don't know any better and the ignorant stockholders that are still buying SCO shares.
If you really think that spreading more FUD on the subject will help those ignorant fools make more rational decisions. Go ahead and do it. Personally, I think FUD on top FUD will only confuse the situation even more, and this might only make the stupid SCO stockholders hold out even more "just in case" while the SCO scam artists continue to unload more of their worthless stock at insanely inflated prices.
I know about the limited liability protection our government gives us. In fact, I cringe everytime I hear a bank make it sound like the standard protection all banks are *required* to give us is something *unique* that *only* their bank is offering out of the kindness of their heart.
I didn't want to overwhelm the original poster with all the details. I didn't feel it was especially relevant, since our smart cards, the ones that will be linked to our accounts, will probably have the same protection our existing accounts already have.
I took a class on interrogation techniques and I couldn't agree more. Our legal system is so intent on protecting innocent people, the cops are taking extreme measures at extracting confessions.
I would say more, but the interrogation system is sooooo fucked up -- people would think I am making things up.
"Here we use credit cards. Its more secure to have financial information stored server-side."
I guess you don't have a checking account. Here in the US it takes one to five days to get checks reconciled. So even if you don't ever use your checkbook. The very fact that you have a checking account puts you at risk from having your account cleaned out.
In some ways, smart cards are just like checks, they don't get reconciled immediately, but they can get reconciled within a few seconds if necessary.
Five years ago, in France and in Italy, they were everywhere and they were accepted everywhere. Smart cards readers are like PCs and American cards are like internet browsers. Smart cards perform the transaction as soon as you give your pin and press the enter key. American cards perform the transaction after one or two seconds after you press the enter key.
Smart cards probably have other advantages/disadvantages as well, but that's the only thing I picked up on when I was there.
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Yes, that guy must be a foreigner. Only a foreigner would confuse "higher education" with high school. It's an easy mistake to make, since most foreigners learn in high school what Americans only start learning in Colleges and Universities.
In the forums I've been in, people either answered questions without using templates, or if the answer had already been posted, they posted a link referencing the previous thread or the previous knowledge base article on the question.
When Gray Davis interfered with the Republican Primary, to make sure only the *weaker* candidate Bill Simon won, he said it may not have been fair, but it *was* legal. Now when something legal, but *unfair* happens to him, he cries like a little baby. That's what I would call poetic justice.
Who's Georgie, he's not on my list of candidates.
Your fear of overseas workers is clouding your judgement. The main reason people go to newsgroups is *precisely* because they want to avoid the cut and paste replies of unskilled people. And the main reason a company will support a newsgroup is precisely because their own customers (some of them skilled) will contribute to it without getting paid.
But if you know of a company stupid enough to do what you say they do -- please post a link to their forums. If you're speaking from personal experience, I'll assume you'll have a link for us. Right?
I wonder how long it will take them to debunk this stupid idea of text messaging movie reviews.
Check the /. archives on the day of the black out, you'll see.
I guess you liked Gigli then.
All else didn't fail. Some cell phone networks were still up.
The Split Personality Disorder was given as such an example. Before any book was written about Split Personality, there were only one or two cases in which the symptoms might have fit that disorder. And those one or two cases were recorded in a space of 50 years. Then as soon as a fictional book was written on the subject, thousands of people started showing the symptoms of the Split Personality Disorder depicted in the book. And when a new book like Sybil or a new movie was released on the subject, one could see a spike in the number of cases found. And the people affected would invariably manifest the same new different symptoms that had been depicted in the new book/movie.
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, also has some good examples of the same phenomena.
same for me, but mine wasn't a smart card, it was a magnetic card. I had to get it remagnitized twice already.
I don't know which version of CNN you're watching, but one of those guys did have a camouflaged helmet on. Damn, I wish I had a Tivo.
No, Bloomberg said some black smoke came out when the power station shut down, but it's not on fire.
Simple, Keanu is not human. That part was easily believable.
There was one extract of some training materials for the police, but it was from a third party company and it wasn't much. Most of his materials on cops came from his own work. This guy has been testifying against cops for more than 30 years and on average it seemed he was working on two new cases a week. He would show up only for one lecture a week, the two other lectures, his Teaching Assistants would set up videos of him testifying or something.
There were some detailed government reports on Chinese reeducation camps, North Korean POW interrogation techniques, and KGB interrogation techniques. There were some case studies on the Moonies, Jesuit monks, the US military, psychological counter groups, drug rehabilitation programs, and many cults I can't remember the names of. And there were some studies on false memories, lie detectors, hypnosis, and abuses of patient-therapist relationships.
Overall, it was one of the most interesting class I've ever taken, but it left a really bad taste in my mouth.
The page I linked to is to the page of the Professor who taught my class. The papers referenced there don't even begin to describe what this guy has shown us.
That guy is actually a professional expert witness. He does cults, murder cases, pyromania, theft and pretty much anything that involves getting a confession from a poor schmuck. That's his primary occupation. He uses the fact that he is a Professor and a lecturer at UC Berkeley as a way to gain credibility as a witness.
The advice you give about shutting up is pretty sound. It's too bad that most people are not ready for the kind of pressure that cops will exert on them.
Arguing with the crazy man at the door, while his buddies went to the back of your house, is not a good idea. Even if you win that argument, the man and his buddies will be long gone by the time you discover what's amiss.
SCO is not anal-retentive, SCO is lead by a bunch of shrewd scam artists. The only people that might be anal-retentive are the ignorant corporate customers that don't know any better and the ignorant stockholders that are still buying SCO shares.
If you really think that spreading more FUD on the subject will help those ignorant fools make more rational decisions. Go ahead and do it. Personally, I think FUD on top FUD will only confuse the situation even more, and this might only make the stupid SCO stockholders hold out even more "just in case" while the SCO scam artists continue to unload more of their worthless stock at insanely inflated prices.
I know about the limited liability protection our government gives us. In fact, I cringe everytime I hear a bank make it sound like the standard protection all banks are *required* to give us is something *unique* that *only* their bank is offering out of the kindness of their heart.
I didn't want to overwhelm the original poster with all the details. I didn't feel it was especially relevant, since our smart cards, the ones that will be linked to our accounts, will probably have the same protection our existing accounts already have.
The opposite of crazy is still crazy.
I would say more, but the interrogation system is sooooo fucked up -- people would think I am making things up.
It's the backup plan in case the shotgun goes off.
I guess you don't have a checking account. Here in the US it takes one to five days to get checks reconciled. So even if you don't ever use your checkbook. The very fact that you have a checking account puts you at risk from having your account cleaned out.
In some ways, smart cards are just like checks, they don't get reconciled immediately, but they can get reconciled within a few seconds if necessary.
Smart cards probably have other advantages/disadvantages as well, but that's the only thing I picked up on when I was there.
It's called capitalism. You can showboat all you want as long as you pay for it yourself.