Just a quick question - I thought recording requires consent from both parties? Or is this just for phone conversations? Can you record audio anywhere then use that for evidence later on? Esp. on private premises?
It varies with the jurisdiction (state) and who specifically is being recorded. For example, in Illinois it was recently illegal to record police, even in public. The courts eventually found the law to be invalid. There are also distinctions for whether recording contains video AND audio, or just one part. The "premises" thing may come into play here, as he was likely onsite at the theater during questioning.
Down-the-line, this is going to cause further havoc when dealing with medical and legal issues such as schooling. The non-biological mother will be unable to visit the child in the emergency room without the biological mother there first, nor will she be able to make any necessary decisions in care. Doctors will be restricted from telling this "roommate" mother any medical information without pre-approval, although giving her medical power-of-attorney may help.
I remember during one of the Bush 2 nationally televised debates; All of the Republican hopefuls were on stage and the question was asked “do you believe in evolution” – not a single one on stage raised their hand.
I don't remember the question coming up in Bush 2, but I know it's been asked and answered more recently than that. Article here.Video here
TLDR: In May 2007, the GOP hopefuls were asked "How many of you don’t believe in evolution?". Even McCain, who had just a month before said that he liked evolution, changed his mind.
I'd like to see someone come up with a steganographic RAID-ish storage volume.
Sounds like a variation on a "PAR" archive. It may be that a combination of PAR with a TrueCrypt volume way to go. If someone could do PAR as a FUSE project, then you'd be partway there. This would still be missing the steganography angle, and I don't see anything to help that along.
In November, some guy at the local mall went to several shops and asked the young women on staff to help him find stuff on lower racks. He then took some "upskirt" pictures with his camera phone. When he got noticed, he ran out of the mall.
Police reports in December give the follow up. Mall security went back to the cameras and found the guy. They tracked him outside the mall running to his car. The parking lot camera got his license plate number. License plate number was sent to the local police, who picked him up at home.
I have mixed feelings about the 'all cameras, all the time' thing. On the one hand: "good - they got the creepy guy." On the other hand, I'm also now REALLY aware that if I decide to leave a passive-aggressive note on the windshield of a guy who parks right up against my door, I could likely expect a visit from his friend-of-a-friend who works in a local police department.
When someone comes and says we want to take everything you have and enslave you then just say "okay."
I know this was somewhat in jest, but I'd like to point out the next step. After they've enslaved you and they decide to expand their operations, they hand you a gun and say "you're in the army now". Disagree and be subjected to things worse than dying. At least, that's how it's worked for thousands of young boys in Africa.
It seems like the phrase "government money" is dropped in here just to bait arguments. Was there any doubt it was government money? If it were private money, would that be a problem? Wouldn't it be a different problem? Wouldn't "public funds" or "a state/federal grant" have been the same or more accurate?
From TFA: "The program is being funded primarily through a $540,000 federal grant, with a small match from the local governments." TFA actually has a lot of other good 'geeky' detail, like "3-5% of traffic [is already] broadcasting in discoverable mode".
I feel like someone is trying to raise the "oh, the waste!" card.
Actually, the only "guarantee" on the backpay was that they got it the LAST time we had a shutdown. It could just have easily been written to not include it. Add onto that the fact that many people live check-to-check (or near enough) and things could have gotten REALLY BAD for your friends if this had gone on more than a month or two.
Nothing sucks like eating into your savings, putting as much as you can on credit, and then trying to pull money out of your retirement fund. Even with backpay, you're down quite a bit.
No to USB storage, it defeats part of the point of having a RAID.
Unless you're supporting a fairly large local user base, software RAID over USB should be fine with a decent CPU and RAM behind it. That would also give you portability to another machine if the existing one dies (being tied to a specific chipset for hardware RAID can be a dead-end.)
There are a fair number of older Atom-based laptop/netbooks that would fall into this category; you probably can get a used one for nearly free, and just stick more RAM in it. Some of the older benchmarking I've seen (about ten years ago) showed software RAID only using 5-10% CPU. And unless you're using SSD, I'm pretty sure that processors have improved faster than disks have.
Since it's planned for a NAS , you're likely to be network-constrained anyway, so the speed aspect of RAID may be lost. I've got a single Atom netbook hooked to a couple of external USB enclosures, and I spend MUCH more time waiting for network than anything else.
Based on some unpleasant experiences with a USB printer that had a neat internal short, my impression is that a device has to be really nasty to just die when subjected to excessive attempted current draw by a peripheral.
I've killed one "iHome" and nearly killed another when trying to recharge various devices.
In one case, I put a completely dead "iPod Classic" in the top dock and after an hour noticed a nasty electrical smell coming out of it. It also was no longer was charging and wouldn't play any audio. Unplugging and waiting a few days, then trying again, resulted in no-go. I disassembled it but didn't see anything visibly wrong. Oddly enough, these older iHomes were DESIGNED for the iPod Classic.
Later, plugged an iPad 1 into the USB port of another iHome and noticed the funny smell again pretty quickly. I unplugged and everything seemed to be OK, but wasn't about to break another one.
I saw this on the Jetsons. George Jetson goes to work, pushes three buttons, and goes right back home.
What we've seen over the past 50 years is a growth in per capital GPD, much of it due to automation. This should have led to more pay for less work, or same pay for less work. However: the median income has held steady while the "top 0.1%" has taken off. Instead of everyone working 10 hour days and getting a livable wage as the efficiency would indicate, we have people working 40-50 hour weeks for less money, while a select few get a LOT more for it - effectively getting thousands of hours of income for each week of work. The tying of insurance and other benefits to a floor in minimum hours of work made this condition worse. I know of many people, parents and artists mostly, who would LOVE to have a professional job of 20-30 hours/week and are even willing to take proportionally lower pay to get it, but our current (US) system doesn't allow it.
Robots taking jobs isn't a bad thing - there's less work to do overall. If there are fewer hours of work to go around, then either everyone works fewer hours for the same pay, or... a few people work "full-time" and everyone else gets shafted.
Quite a few sci-fi books have looked at this. I think Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps" visited a future where our protagonist worked at a junkyard where they took brand-new, off-the-lot cars and crushed them. The car builders had full-time work - the crushers had full-time work, too. That's messed up.
The Chevy Volt had to re-address some design issues due to these tests. Because they realized a fluid leak caused a short that ignited a vehicle after impact tests.
Ah, yes. There was a fire several days after the crash test. Chevy also indicated that the crash-testers failed to have the battery inspected after the testing as recommended in the owner manual. In the end, Chevy built a box around the battery, and the testers learned something new about electric cars - "read the manual".
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which runs the Service, has asked for funding that would increase that supercomputing power even more...
In our current political 'climate', I don't see that happening. Things seem to be run by a group of people who disbelieves all science, and another group who thinks that all government spending is bad, and a significant overlap between them.
As a sibling post has said, we've got enough trouble getting them to pay for replacing dying weather satellites.
All while trying to kill student loans and a health care plan which both MAKE MONEY, all in the name of saving money.
Ported to another carrier in less than two hours, got enough data with equivalent minutes for ~$20/Month cheaper to not worry, and haven't looked back. If they had worked with me as a loyal customer I would still be with them, and it's stupid... it's much much MUCH more cost effective to keep a good customer than it is to try and get a new one.
Nuking every country other than the US would also make us very safe.
Nah - we've bred our own terrorists. McVeigh, abortion bombers and murderers, etc. A few more years of high unemployment for the under-25 set, and we'll see a spike likely.
The thing is, its important not to use the characterization of the point of view you are arguing against.
Thanks for calling this out - I'd up-vote you if I could. It seems to be a common problem in the press; a political figure or personality will proclaim "death panel" or "death tax" or whatever, and the rest of the news cycle will use that perspective. When you allow your opponent to define the field, you're already on the defensive.
For every ticket that was questionable, I went down to the city building, waited a short amount of time to have my story heard, and the tickets were nullified.
It really couldn't be any easier.
Taking time off during the workday to go to court to fight a ticket that shouldn't have been issued in the first place is easy?
Sounds like Stockholm syndrome to me.
Agreed, and in Chicago - and I'm sure it's true elsewhere - the "court costs" automatically triggered if you fight such a ticket are higher than the ticket. I don't remember off the top-of-my-head, but I believe it costs $65 to fight a $50 ticket. People I've talked to who have fought such tickets, complete with pictures and other evidence, have always lost, so they're out BOTH costs.
I prefer a mission to Europa that includes a submarine to go into the water below the ice to take pics of the little fishies (if any).
Sounds like an indie movie coming up. Preview looks pretty good, but the jiggly camera work may detract from the story. Not sure yet. Good trailer available online.
Seems like letting rich women take multiple husbands would even that out.
You would think! Our "monkey heritage" means men want to be assured that the children they're raising are their own genes. We don't "share" well. Because of "child-raising" duties and historical rules of asset management, there aren't enough rich women to go around! I had a single female friend buy a condo in the 90s and the word "spinster" was on the paperwork.
What you are acknowledging is, marital arrangements are constructed and recognized for the benefit of society. This is the fundamental aspect of the conservative case against gay marriage.
True: society has an interest in defining what a marriage is. But: if such a contract has no negative effects, it shouldn't be disallowed. As Jefferson once said on religion "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The conservative argument against gay marriage so far has not been "it's not good for society", but a much more narrow "what will MY children think?" In fact, such an arrangement has no such effect. We know that you can't "catch teh gay" no more than you can cure it (think Exodus group). A few opponents have actually dropped "God's intended order" or similar into it.
There are some definite societal negatives, but society also changes. Here's a "weak negative" on gay marriage; retirement systems worldwide largely are based on relying on the next generation. In the past, an elderly person would move in with their child (oldest male?) and help raise the kids. Currently, the US has a system which relies on the next generation to pay for the retirement of the prior one. If a gay couple marries and produces no children, then there's a net loss in the next generation's providers. This isn't the whole story, however. By the same measure, we should also ban the marriage of the elderly and infertile - they're not going to contribute children, but they're going to depend on society in retirement. In most developed countries, we see a shrinking of birth rate as female education grows, and there's a reliance on an immigrant population to provide that support; we should be discouraging female education and encouraging immigration if this is a societal goal, but we do neither. Further: a pair of gay people who either cohabitate or don't will not produce children whether or not we allow them to marry. The net effect of this ruling on "number of children in the next generation" is zero.
There are actually some benefits to society of having adults without children running around. They can work like dogs without a break. They BOTH are able to work, rather than have one not working and staying home to raise the kid(s). They pay the same public school taxes as everyone else, effectively lowering the price per household of education.
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Just a quick question - I thought recording requires consent from both parties? Or is this just for phone conversations? Can you record audio anywhere then use that for evidence later on? Esp. on private premises?
It varies with the jurisdiction (state) and who specifically is being recorded. For example, in Illinois it was recently illegal to record police, even in public. The courts eventually found the law to be invalid. There are also distinctions for whether recording contains video AND audio, or just one part. The "premises" thing may come into play here, as he was likely onsite at the theater during questioning.
Down-the-line, this is going to cause further havoc when dealing with medical and legal issues such as schooling. The non-biological mother will be unable to visit the child in the emergency room without the biological mother there first, nor will she be able to make any necessary decisions in care. Doctors will be restricted from telling this "roommate" mother any medical information without pre-approval, although giving her medical power-of-attorney may help.
I don't remember the question coming up in Bush 2, but I know it's been asked and answered more recently than that. Article here. Video here
TLDR: In May 2007, the GOP hopefuls were asked "How many of you don’t believe in evolution?". Even McCain, who had just a month before said that he liked evolution, changed his mind.
Sounds like a variation on a "PAR" archive. It may be that a combination of PAR with a TrueCrypt volume way to go. If someone could do PAR as a FUSE project, then you'd be partway there. This would still be missing the steganography angle, and I don't see anything to help that along.
In November, some guy at the local mall went to several shops and asked the young women on staff to help him find stuff on lower racks. He then took some "upskirt" pictures with his camera phone. When he got noticed, he ran out of the mall.
Police reports in December give the follow up. Mall security went back to the cameras and found the guy. They tracked him outside the mall running to his car. The parking lot camera got his license plate number. License plate number was sent to the local police, who picked him up at home.
I have mixed feelings about the 'all cameras, all the time' thing. On the one hand: "good - they got the creepy guy." On the other hand, I'm also now REALLY aware that if I decide to leave a passive-aggressive note on the windshield of a guy who parks right up against my door, I could likely expect a visit from his friend-of-a-friend who works in a local police department.
There are some reports that while it was finished in that last invasion, the library was already pretty much dead from budget cuts and infighting long before then. http://io9.com/the-great-library-at-alexandria-was-destroyed-by-budget-1442659066
Sounds similar to some of the struggles in the US.
Arggh - qualification - The "Lawyers, politicians and lobbyists" have no souls.
And as appropriate organisms, my vote goes for: Lawyers, politicians and lobbyists, in that order.
They'll need clergy to minister to their spiritual needs...
They have no souls - we'll have to select the clergy to send based on their own merits.
I know this was somewhat in jest, but I'd like to point out the next step. After they've enslaved you and they decide to expand their operations, they hand you a gun and say "you're in the army now". Disagree and be subjected to things worse than dying. At least, that's how it's worked for thousands of young boys in Africa.
It seems like the phrase "government money" is dropped in here just to bait arguments. Was there any doubt it was government money? If it were private money, would that be a problem? Wouldn't it be a different problem? Wouldn't "public funds" or "a state/federal grant" have been the same or more accurate?
From TFA: "The program is being funded primarily through a $540,000 federal grant, with a small match from the local governments." TFA actually has a lot of other good 'geeky' detail, like "3-5% of traffic [is already] broadcasting in discoverable mode".
I feel like someone is trying to raise the "oh, the waste!" card.
Actually, the only "guarantee" on the backpay was that they got it the LAST time we had a shutdown. It could just have easily been written to not include it. Add onto that the fact that many people live check-to-check (or near enough) and things could have gotten REALLY BAD for your friends if this had gone on more than a month or two.
Nothing sucks like eating into your savings, putting as much as you can on credit, and then trying to pull money out of your retirement fund. Even with backpay, you're down quite a bit.
Unless you're supporting a fairly large local user base, software RAID over USB should be fine with a decent CPU and RAM behind it. That would also give you portability to another machine if the existing one dies (being tied to a specific chipset for hardware RAID can be a dead-end.)
There are a fair number of older Atom-based laptop/netbooks that would fall into this category; you probably can get a used one for nearly free, and just stick more RAM in it. Some of the older benchmarking I've seen (about ten years ago) showed software RAID only using 5-10% CPU. And unless you're using SSD, I'm pretty sure that processors have improved faster than disks have.
Since it's planned for a NAS , you're likely to be network-constrained anyway, so the speed aspect of RAID may be lost. I've got a single Atom netbook hooked to a couple of external USB enclosures, and I spend MUCH more time waiting for network than anything else.
If it makes it any easier for the MPs, I'm sure that Google would just be willing to block off the UK instead.
I've killed one "iHome" and nearly killed another when trying to recharge various devices.
In one case, I put a completely dead "iPod Classic" in the top dock and after an hour noticed a nasty electrical smell coming out of it. It also was no longer was charging and wouldn't play any audio. Unplugging and waiting a few days, then trying again, resulted in no-go. I disassembled it but didn't see anything visibly wrong. Oddly enough, these older iHomes were DESIGNED for the iPod Classic.
Later, plugged an iPad 1 into the USB port of another iHome and noticed the funny smell again pretty quickly. I unplugged and everything seemed to be OK, but wasn't about to break another one.
I saw this on the Jetsons. George Jetson goes to work, pushes three buttons, and goes right back home.
What we've seen over the past 50 years is a growth in per capital GPD, much of it due to automation. This should have led to more pay for less work, or same pay for less work. However: the median income has held steady while the "top 0.1%" has taken off. Instead of everyone working 10 hour days and getting a livable wage as the efficiency would indicate, we have people working 40-50 hour weeks for less money, while a select few get a LOT more for it - effectively getting thousands of hours of income for each week of work. The tying of insurance and other benefits to a floor in minimum hours of work made this condition worse. I know of many people, parents and artists mostly, who would LOVE to have a professional job of 20-30 hours/week and are even willing to take proportionally lower pay to get it, but our current (US) system doesn't allow it.
Robots taking jobs isn't a bad thing - there's less work to do overall. If there are fewer hours of work to go around, then either everyone works fewer hours for the same pay, or... a few people work "full-time" and everyone else gets shafted.
Quite a few sci-fi books have looked at this. I think Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps" visited a future where our protagonist worked at a junkyard where they took brand-new, off-the-lot cars and crushed them. The car builders had full-time work - the crushers had full-time work, too. That's messed up.
The Chevy Volt had to re-address some design issues due to these tests. Because they realized a fluid leak caused a short that ignited a vehicle after impact tests.
Ah, yes. There was a fire several days after the crash test. Chevy also indicated that the crash-testers failed to have the battery inspected after the testing as recommended in the owner manual. In the end, Chevy built a box around the battery, and the testers learned something new about electric cars - "read the manual".
Or, maybe Slashdot can post the CoralCDN link for the article instead of (or alongside) the regular link?
I know, there are plug-ins, GreaseMonkey and other ways of doing it, but on the user side.
http://www.coralcdn.org/
From TFA:
In our current political 'climate', I don't see that happening. Things seem to be run by a group of people who disbelieves all science, and another group who thinks that all government spending is bad, and a significant overlap between them.
As a sibling post has said, we've got enough trouble getting them to pay for replacing dying weather satellites.
All while trying to kill student loans and a health care plan which both MAKE MONEY, all in the name of saving money.
So: who did you go to?
Nah - we've bred our own terrorists. McVeigh, abortion bombers and murderers, etc. A few more years of high unemployment for the under-25 set, and we'll see a spike likely.
Thanks for calling this out - I'd up-vote you if I could. It seems to be a common problem in the press; a political figure or personality will proclaim "death panel" or "death tax" or whatever, and the rest of the news cycle will use that perspective. When you allow your opponent to define the field, you're already on the defensive.
For every ticket that was questionable, I went down to the city building, waited a short amount of time to have my story heard, and the tickets were nullified.
It really couldn't be any easier.
Taking time off during the workday to go to court to fight a ticket that shouldn't have been issued in the first place is easy?
Sounds like Stockholm syndrome to me.
Agreed, and in Chicago - and I'm sure it's true elsewhere - the "court costs" automatically triggered if you fight such a ticket are higher than the ticket. I don't remember off the top-of-my-head, but I believe it costs $65 to fight a $50 ticket. People I've talked to who have fought such tickets, complete with pictures and other evidence, have always lost, so they're out BOTH costs.
I prefer a mission to Europa that includes a submarine to go into the water below the ice to take pics of the little fishies (if any).
Sounds like an indie movie coming up. Preview looks pretty good, but the jiggly camera work may detract from the story. Not sure yet. Good trailer available online.
You would think! Our "monkey heritage" means men want to be assured that the children they're raising are their own genes. We don't "share" well. Because of "child-raising" duties and historical rules of asset management, there aren't enough rich women to go around! I had a single female friend buy a condo in the 90s and the word "spinster" was on the paperwork.
True: society has an interest in defining what a marriage is. But: if such a contract has no negative effects, it shouldn't be disallowed. As Jefferson once said on religion "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." The conservative argument against gay marriage so far has not been "it's not good for society", but a much more narrow "what will MY children think?" In fact, such an arrangement has no such effect. We know that you can't "catch teh gay" no more than you can cure it (think Exodus group). A few opponents have actually dropped "God's intended order" or similar into it.
There are some definite societal negatives, but society also changes. Here's a "weak negative" on gay marriage; retirement systems worldwide largely are based on relying on the next generation. In the past, an elderly person would move in with their child (oldest male?) and help raise the kids. Currently, the US has a system which relies on the next generation to pay for the retirement of the prior one. If a gay couple marries and produces no children, then there's a net loss in the next generation's providers. This isn't the whole story, however. By the same measure, we should also ban the marriage of the elderly and infertile - they're not going to contribute children, but they're going to depend on society in retirement. In most developed countries, we see a shrinking of birth rate as female education grows, and there's a reliance on an immigrant population to provide that support; we should be discouraging female education and encouraging immigration if this is a societal goal, but we do neither. Further: a pair of gay people who either cohabitate or don't will not produce children whether or not we allow them to marry. The net effect of this ruling on "number of children in the next generation" is zero.
There are actually some benefits to society of having adults without children running around. They can work like dogs without a break. They BOTH are able to work, rather than have one not working and staying home to raise the kid(s). They pay the same public school taxes as everyone else, effectively lowering the price per household of education.