But they are chastised for not coming up with a all-in-one solution? Jeez.
No, they are being chastised for having designed an OS that is so easy to exploit and for failing to correct those deficiencies, preferring to let their users acquire additional software and expend additional time and money that all could have been avoided had they done a better job.
Microsoft's poor security and vulnerability have spawned a significant large industry revolving around exploiting it and fix it.
And the sad part is that sheeple just accept it as part of owning a computer.
No, my objection is that the minority choses who the majority gets to pick. The US version of an "election" is a joke relative to modern systems.
This is the problem with term limits. the people that pre-screen the candidates only need select a new stooge, not a new ideology or policy. Plus you forever lose the slim chance of a politician ever growing string enough to ignore his evil overlords and do "good".
Why not just pay it, considering you actually broke the law? I've been caught by these cameras, and never fought it because honestly the camera was right and I was wrong.
Because he has a lawyer for a wife who holds ethics in contempt and you don't. Kudos to you, sir.
Either people don't care and would rather pay the fine than wait a moment, or there are an incredible number of people not paying any attention whatsoever.
Here in Virginia Beach, VA, City employees in City vehicles get a free pass because the ticket goes to the owner, not the driver. No point in collecting money from yourself.
Didn't we discuss this before? Weren't there several outcomes?
1. You cannot face your accuser if it's a sentience-less robot.
2. car driving through red light ! = person paying fine
3. Governments hate their people.
None of which matters when red light cameras are implemented as revenue machines in the guise of safety. If somebody gets uppity and challenges the cameras, the cities apologize and then go right back to doing the same thing because it's not likely that another person will take the time and money to go through the entire process again and again.
Every time the volume of complaints from whiny old people with too much time on their hands, change the interface to rely on an even more esoteric Web(N+1).0 fad.
If your report isn't on twitter, we didn't hear it.
That's because you filled out a form 11-b, when you should have filled out an 11/b. It's your own fault for not taking more interest in your local government.
And for that, you are made redundant. Thank you for your participation in our community. Close the gate as you depart.
... are probably their own local governments. p>"Click here to endorse a public works program, which nobody wants, because nobody needs . . . Monorail!"
hat boondoggle is referred to as "Light Rail" in Norfolk, VA. Significantly over budget (will probably become the most expensive-per-mile system in the US), no rational justification other than "nice to have" and which has been rejected in a public referendum, but "we can't let those matching Federal dollars go to waste". Even the shamed and discredited transportation director who let the budget go to Hell is still on full salary but doesn't have to report to work anymore. The inmates not only run the asylum, but also sit on the disciplinary board and fund the debacle.
In my city, Virginia Beach, VA, we have a City Manager form of government where a City Manager is hired to manage the city and the City Council is supposed to approve much of what he does. Our "mayor" has no special power other than to preside over council meetings. So we have a non-elected, contracted employee using mushroom management on the elected officials (keep them in the dark and feed them shit) and treating the city like a fifedom (he was observed tearing down political campaign signs of those who disagreed with him), an attitude that filters down to department heads but has not yet affected all of the city employees. Overall, the bosses are an arrogant bunch who live by the Golden Rule - "We own the Gold; We make the Rule".
Sound stereotyped? Sure, but it's pretty much true. One councilman did grow a pair just last week when the City Manager submitted a budget balanced with a significant increase in real estate taxes and no significant budget cuts, especially in the bloated administrative levels. Lot's of public fireworks not reported by the local media.
This site is just what my city needs now to focus the employees who actually accomplish something with our tax dollars. Later we can work on getting a real government.
If you email or call the city, it's between you and the city.
If you use this site, it's among you, the city, and everyone else using the city. So whereas now the city would just ignore you cause they don't give a shit (like where I live), this might just provide sufficient public shame to get something accomplished.
I'm not naive enough to assume the magic of the intertubes will fix everything, but as ideas go, this isn't a bad one and has some potential as a responsiveness check on municipal government.
Politicians do not like to be embarrassed.
Many newspaper writers are bereft of local story ideas.
Convenient place to post info helpful to your community.
Match made in Heaven for the public.
This was the first I heard of this site. I joined for my community and have already successfully encouraged several friends in other communities in the US to participate. I am waiting to hear the critique from my friend who is extra careful about privacy issues, however, but I don't really care who knows I reported a pothole or streetlight.
It's not that you raise bad points, because you're spot on in the gist of your post. But:
Ask any recovered heroin addict whether they are dead or not. Apparently, you would be surprised at their answer.
Surely that invokes a bit of selection bias, no? I mean, if he wanted to survey heroin addicts to find out if they died during recovery, surely he'd want to also ask the ones that died, right?
Well, I can see your point, but his argument was that death was the only possible outcome, hence my sarcastic characterization of his "surprise" at speaking with -living- people who had experienced heroin withdrawal. He came across as the kind of person who would then dispute that those people were ever heroin addicts to begin with (since they were not dead); I don't suspect him to be a stranger to circular logic. But that's just my read on the tenor of his comments.
BTW, isn't there some move afoot to use the tilde (~) as an on-line punctuation mark for snark? Not a bad idea.
Heroin is pretty fucking toxic. We're talking a chemical with no benefit, that makes you literally need it all the time to even stay on a normal level once you're hooked;
Heroin is often a better analgesic than morphine especially in the terminally ill in extreme pain. It metabolizes better and is more effective for certain diseases.
And if you are terminally ill, who gives a shit if you become addicted to heroin?
and if you cut it off completely after a certain point, you die from withdrawal.
Nonsense; your ignorance is showing. Ask any recovered heroin addict whether they are dead or not. Apparently, you would be surprised at their answer.
I always liked modifying radios to do things they were never intended to do, like put a CB radio on 10M FM. Or use a 1500' end-fed longwire antenna on 40M to check into ECARS using 10W PEP and having net control accuse me of using illegal power. And helping a friend set up and use a 5kW surplus government transmitter on MARS. Or help another friend assemble a complete set (DC to daylight) of NSA/CIA/FBI multi-mode receivers that weren't supposed to exist (the FBI bought them back from us). Almost got to use an AM broadcast antenna during its off-air time for 160M. Convert old Motorola State Police radios to 6M FM. Send slow-scan TV and RTTY all over the world. Talk to interesting people. Just fun stuff. 73, KB4OQ
rule number 1 of slashdot: ANY thread can be twisted into a bash of microsoft. no exceptions.
Because Microsoft behaves they way they do.
Let's restate "Rule number 1 of Slashdot": ANY mention of any fact can be used to illustrate Microsoft's evil behavior because they routinely behave in some evil manner.
But if you point was "It's pointless to always bash Microsoft because they're always doing something worth bashing and they'll never change", then I agree. Good insight on your part.
but Ex parte Merryman (1861) decided that the president cannot suspend habeas corpus.
Which was successfully ignored by Lincoln and then invalidated by Congress. So as a practical matter, Lincoln not only could do it, but in fact, did it; it just took a few years to do it properly.
The reality is that the President can do whatever the President can do when the other branches fail to exercise their "checks and balances" responsibilities. The blame lies with Congress for bending over too often.
The photos were taken in a public place, ergo they are not "private" in any legal sense, unless they are of the same nature as other pictures taken in public but deemed private (like "up-skirt" voyeur photos). But a general photo of a traffic accident, no matter how gory, like those on display at the link at the top? Not private.
That's not to say that the officer's behavior was socially acceptable. It was certainly offensive, disrespectful to the family involved and not professional at all. Apologies and discipline are in order, but not lawsuits.
The citation implies that it all started with Truman and, I assume, the "threat of Communism" which, in retrospect, was mostly a boogeyman. Are you arguing that fear alone is a valid basis for surrendering any freedom?
What I find so sad is that every time a leader commits a crime in the United States someone finds new history to say "they've always done it that way". I think the country and the system deserve to actually follow their own laws maybe that way it might get better. Laws should apply to people in power, not just the downtrodden.
It makes you wonder if the business of government could be done without all this skullduggery or if we just consistently elect petulant egomaniacs that only feign any sense of morality while they do whatever the Hell they want.
Slashdot Mirror
do we want to teach our children?
But they are chastised for not coming up with a all-in-one solution? Jeez.
No, they are being chastised for having designed an OS that is so easy to exploit and for failing to correct those deficiencies, preferring to let their users acquire additional software and expend additional time and money that all could have been avoided had they done a better job.
Microsoft's poor security and vulnerability have spawned a significant large industry revolving around exploiting it and fix it.
And the sad part is that sheeple just accept it as part of owning a computer.
No, my objection is that the minority choses who the majority gets to pick. The US version of an "election" is a joke relative to modern systems.
This is the problem with term limits. the people that pre-screen the candidates only need select a new stooge, not a new ideology or policy. Plus you forever lose the slim chance of a politician ever growing string enough to ignore his evil overlords and do "good".
Who knew gamers even had souls?
When will somebody apply Rule 35 to this?\
The only way you can trigger a ticket is if you passed the stopline AFTER the light was red.
Sounds pretty fair to me..
Must not be generating any revenue.
Hope they don't read Slashdot!
Why not just pay it, considering you actually broke the law? I've been caught by these cameras, and never fought it because honestly the camera was right and I was wrong.
Because he has a lawyer for a wife who holds ethics in contempt and you don't. Kudos to you, sir.
Either people don't care and would rather pay the fine than wait a moment, or there are an incredible number of people not paying any attention whatsoever.
Here in Virginia Beach, VA, City employees in City vehicles get a free pass because the ticket goes to the owner, not the driver. No point in collecting money from yourself.
Didn't we discuss this before? Weren't there several outcomes?
1. You cannot face your accuser if it's a sentience-less robot.
2. car driving through red light ! = person paying fine
3. Governments hate their people.
None of which matters when red light cameras are implemented as revenue machines in the guise of safety. If somebody gets uppity and challenges the cameras, the cities apologize and then go right back to doing the same thing because it's not likely that another person will take the time and money to go through the entire process again and again.
It's all about the money. We lose.
Every time the volume of complaints from whiny old people with too much time on their hands, change the interface to rely on an even more esoteric Web(N+1).0 fad.
If your report isn't on twitter, we didn't hear it.
Mr. Mayor, is that you?
That's because you filled out a form 11-b, when you should have filled out an 11/b. It's your own fault for not taking more interest in your local government.
And for that, you are made redundant. Thank you for your participation in our community. Close the gate as you depart.
... are probably their own local governments.
p>"Click here to endorse a public works program, which nobody wants, because nobody needs . . . Monorail!"
hat boondoggle is referred to as "Light Rail" in Norfolk, VA. Significantly over budget (will probably become the most expensive-per-mile system in the US), no rational justification other than "nice to have" and which has been rejected in a public referendum, but "we can't let those matching Federal dollars go to waste". Even the shamed and discredited transportation director who let the budget go to Hell is still on full salary but doesn't have to report to work anymore. The inmates not only run the asylum, but also sit on the disciplinary board and fund the debacle.
In my city, Virginia Beach, VA, we have a City Manager form of government where a City Manager is hired to manage the city and the City Council is supposed to approve much of what he does. Our "mayor" has no special power other than to preside over council meetings. So we have a non-elected, contracted employee using mushroom management on the elected officials (keep them in the dark and feed them shit) and treating the city like a fifedom (he was observed tearing down political campaign signs of those who disagreed with him), an attitude that filters down to department heads but has not yet affected all of the city employees. Overall, the bosses are an arrogant bunch who live by the Golden Rule - "We own the Gold; We make the Rule".
Sound stereotyped? Sure, but it's pretty much true. One councilman did grow a pair just last week when the City Manager submitted a budget balanced with a significant increase in real estate taxes and no significant budget cuts, especially in the bloated administrative levels. Lot's of public fireworks not reported by the local media.
This site is just what my city needs now to focus the employees who actually accomplish something with our tax dollars. Later we can work on getting a real government.
If you email or call the city, it's between you and the city.
If you use this site, it's among you, the city, and everyone else using the city. So whereas now the city would just ignore you cause they don't give a shit (like where I live), this might just provide sufficient public shame to get something accomplished.
I'm not naive enough to assume the magic of the intertubes will fix everything, but as ideas go, this isn't a bad one and has some potential as a responsiveness check on municipal government.
Politicians do not like to be embarrassed.
Many newspaper writers are bereft of local story ideas.
Convenient place to post info helpful to your community.
Match made in Heaven for the public.
This was the first I heard of this site. I joined for my community and have already successfully encouraged several friends in other communities in the US to participate. I am waiting to hear the critique from my friend who is extra careful about privacy issues, however, but I don't really care who knows I reported a pothole or streetlight.
It's not that you raise bad points, because you're spot on in the gist of your post. But:
Surely that invokes a bit of selection bias, no? I mean, if he wanted to survey heroin addicts to find out if they died during recovery, surely he'd want to also ask the ones that died, right?
Well, I can see your point, but his argument was that death was the only possible outcome, hence my sarcastic characterization of his "surprise" at speaking with -living- people who had experienced heroin withdrawal. He came across as the kind of person who would then dispute that those people were ever heroin addicts to begin with (since they were not dead); I don't suspect him to be a stranger to circular logic. But that's just my read on the tenor of his comments.
BTW, isn't there some move afoot to use the tilde (~) as an on-line punctuation mark for snark? Not a bad idea.
Heroin is pretty fucking toxic. We're talking a chemical with no benefit, that makes you literally need it all the time to even stay on a normal level once you're hooked;
Heroin is often a better analgesic than morphine especially in the terminally ill in extreme pain. It metabolizes better and is more effective for certain diseases.
And if you are terminally ill, who gives a shit if you become addicted to heroin?
and if you cut it off completely after a certain point, you die from withdrawal.
Nonsense; your ignorance is showing. Ask any recovered heroin addict whether they are dead or not. Apparently, you would be surprised at their answer.
Somebody please mod this dude down.
For example Linus Torvalds has said that there will never be a version 3.0 of the Linux kernel.
Because there will be no more major revisions to the kernel? That would make sense.
REDRUM
I practiced driving in Carmageddon. Now, no old ladies with a walker or any cow is safe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon
http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/the-making-of%E2%80%A6-carmageddon
Now, get off my road!
I always liked modifying radios to do things they were never intended to do, like put a CB radio on 10M FM. Or use a 1500' end-fed longwire antenna on 40M to check into ECARS using 10W PEP and having net control accuse me of using illegal power. And helping a friend set up and use a 5kW surplus government transmitter on MARS. Or help another friend assemble a complete set (DC to daylight) of NSA/CIA/FBI multi-mode receivers that weren't supposed to exist (the FBI bought them back from us). Almost got to use an AM broadcast antenna during its off-air time for 160M. Convert old Motorola State Police radios to 6M FM. Send slow-scan TV and RTTY all over the world. Talk to interesting people. Just fun stuff.
73,
KB4OQ
rule number 1 of slashdot: ANY thread can be twisted into a bash of microsoft. no exceptions.
Because Microsoft behaves they way they do.
Let's restate "Rule number 1 of Slashdot": ANY mention of any fact can be used to illustrate Microsoft's evil behavior because they routinely behave in some evil manner.
But if you point was "It's pointless to always bash Microsoft because they're always doing something worth bashing and they'll never change", then I agree. Good insight on your part.
but Ex parte Merryman (1861) decided that the president cannot suspend habeas corpus.
Which was successfully ignored by Lincoln and then invalidated by Congress. So as a practical matter, Lincoln not only could do it, but in fact, did it; it just took a few years to do it properly.
The reality is that the President can do whatever the President can do when the other branches fail to exercise their "checks and balances" responsibilities. The blame lies with Congress for bending over too often.
The photos were taken in a public place, ergo they are not "private" in any legal sense, unless they are of the same nature as other pictures taken in public but deemed private (like "up-skirt" voyeur photos). But a general photo of a traffic accident, no matter how gory, like those on display at the link at the top? Not private.
That's not to say that the officer's behavior was socially acceptable. It was certainly offensive, disrespectful to the family involved and not professional at all. Apologies and discipline are in order, but not lawsuits.
All modern presidents have done the same thing. http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=75&aid=96665
Which makes it right in which way?
The citation implies that it all started with Truman and, I assume, the "threat of Communism" which, in retrospect, was mostly a boogeyman. Are you arguing that fear alone is a valid basis for surrendering any freedom?
What I find so sad is that every time a leader commits a crime in the United States someone finds new history to say "they've always done it that way". I think the country and the system deserve to actually follow their own laws maybe that way it might get better. Laws should apply to people in power, not just the downtrodden.
It makes you wonder if the business of government could be done without all this skullduggery or if we just consistently elect petulant egomaniacs that only feign any sense of morality while they do whatever the Hell they want.
Its a great system overall, but I think its been abused for the past 50 years or so - at least by the Republicans when in power.
It's been abused by politicians and bureaucrats of all political persuasions for as long as there have been politicians and bureaucrats.
And the US doesn't have a monopoly on that kind of behavior BTW.