Agreed, it's a matter of time before someone's ID gets swiped and the imposter gets waved through with contraband. Of course, the TSA will deny it's their fault for such a gaping hole and try prosecuting the poor sap whose ID got stolen.
Heck, with such a system I'm sure the terrorists will target TSA employees to steal their ID.
Yes, jury nullification is a great way out, but it's also ridiculously rare. People tend to trust their government, and unless you can truly convince the jurors you're a regular joe and not some genius mastermind criminal hacker that the prosecution is painting you out to be, it's going to be very hard to sell the jury on this option.
In the US, you have the right to remain silent. Fifth Amendment gives you protection against self-incrimination, so supposedly if you refuse to hand over the key the court isn't supposed to assume it means you're guilty.
Of course, the Bush administration did threaten people like John Walker Lindh or the Lackawanna Six with being sent to Guantanamo indefinitely if they didn't plead guilty, so we're not exactly in great legal territory.
It was only a few years ago that the US was complaining that the Voice of America broadcasts were banned via jamming in Cuba and Ethiopia, let alone the many years of jamming under the Iron Curtain. The EU is aware of the slippery slope, once you start blocking copyright stuff then they'll move on to politically undesirable stuff. The Bush administration actively worked to block Al Jazeera, for example.
Every ME country doesn't want Israel to have nukes either, but Israel says they don't friggin care what you think. Israel is one of the single-digit holdouts that refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even Iran signed it (which is why the IAEA routinely inspects Iran).
Why are so many people surprised the Iranian people want nukes? Their democracy was overthrown in a coup that the CIA freely admits orchestrating, they lost over a million people in the Iran-Iraq war, where among other things Saddam Hussein gassed their capital. Israel keeps threatening to nuke Israel and Hebrew-language editorial pages keep agitating for it. The US has put soldiers on both the East and West borders of their country, and Bush and the new GOP candidates are running on an anti-Iran platform.
From Iran's point of view, possessing a nuclear weapon keeps you safe. Look at how Bush treated Iraq and North Korea very differently as a result. Even so, Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khaminei have both said that nuclear weapons are a sin (so if they were caught making one it would undermine their power completely), the IAEA has said that none of the Uraniam has been diverted from power-production to weapons production, and many scholars think Iran's moves over the last few years are a "nuclear latency" tactic.
Last I read on slashdot, getting a work visa for India is extremely hard, meaning Americans can't as easily go to India for work as the reverse. Anyone have more info?
My local library in New York has a decent ebook lending program. Essentially it uses DRM-ed PDFs. Also, the New York (City) Public Library has a rather large eBook library, although it's locked into the Kindle universe.
I'd prefer to see a more cross-compatible standard that works with all the eBook readers out there, and doesn't give Amazon a monopoly, but this is better than nothing.
Linux has a relatively steep learning curve. Your sys admin idea might apply to people with lots of experience, but if you want people to replace Windows or OS X with Linux, this becomes an issue.
Why would it matter if the employee is decision-making or not? Spokespeople don't make decisions, only announce what the company has internally decided.
It's not about data, but about interpretation. Even on iPhone you could use google search to speak "weather new york." That and the various other commands require some basic knowledge about what commands are accepted. With Siri, I can ask more natural language questions like "Will I need a raincoat?" Before Siri, there were iOS and Android apps that would let you send a text message "Send text to Ashley Smith, I will be late." Siri got better, with things like "Tell my sister I'll be late" and it knows enough to recognize who is your sister, realize you want to send a text, and transcribe it, while reading it back for confirmation.
Siri's advantage isn't the speech recognition or ties to Wolfram Alpha, but that it handles natural language (as TFA is referring to). I can tell Siri "I locked myself out of my apartment" and it will show me a list of nearby locksmiths to choose from via Google Maps. Iris will soon be able to do google lookups of math equations or tell me the capital of a country, but Siri goes far more than that. It's not about knowledge or access to data, but about your device recognizing what you mean. This is unlike even established products like Dragon dictate; it stops becoming LCARS from Star Trek and turns into JARVIS from Iron Man. The various wisecracks that Siri can deliver back were also part of Apple's design to give it some attitude.
Don't say religion when you only mean Christianity. For example, Jews and Muslims don't believe the Earth is only 6000 years old, neither do Hindus or Buddhists.
Actually no. Back in 1948 the people today known as Palestinians were citizens of British Mandate Palestine. Go read the Sykes-Picot agreement for more info. If I were to accept your supposition as true, then Israelis themselves would not be Israeli either. The UN called for creating both countries, but only one materialized. The problem is that the British promised the same land to both the Jews (via the Balfour declaration) and the Arabs (via the McMahon–Hussein letters). It was a historic screwup, compounded by revisionist zionism claims like yours that try to pretend Palestinians are a myth.
Hamas does not make up their government, ever since Fatah and Abbas engineered an anti-democratic coup and threw them all out.
You'd think Israel would be upset by this, but they actively assisted in it. Sounds like they want to keep democracy in the Middle East for themselves, since they also backed Mubarak even when he was shooting hundreds of people in the street.
I call Strawman. The UN was passing a resolution that basically said defamation of religions is exacerbating conflicts all over the world. Thus, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Christianity, is all something we should try to combat. Instead, right-wingers like you see this as "Oh noes, Muslims want to protect their hurt feelings!"
Let's face it, people die from anti-Semitism (holocaust and pogroms) and Islamophobia; the anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat, massacres in Thailand, hate crimes in Europe, etc. The atheists on slashdot keep saying (incorrectly) how religion is the cause of all wars, so let's try decreasing that as a factor, hmm?
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Agreed, it's a matter of time before someone's ID gets swiped and the imposter gets waved through with contraband. Of course, the TSA will deny it's their fault for such a gaping hole and try prosecuting the poor sap whose ID got stolen.
Heck, with such a system I'm sure the terrorists will target TSA employees to steal their ID.
Yes, jury nullification is a great way out, but it's also ridiculously rare. People tend to trust their government, and unless you can truly convince the jurors you're a regular joe and not some genius mastermind criminal hacker that the prosecution is painting you out to be, it's going to be very hard to sell the jury on this option.
Cool idea. Are there any systems out there that have such a "duress password?"
In the US, you have the right to remain silent. Fifth Amendment gives you protection against self-incrimination, so supposedly if you refuse to hand over the key the court isn't supposed to assume it means you're guilty.
Of course, the Bush administration did threaten people like John Walker Lindh or the Lackawanna Six with being sent to Guantanamo indefinitely if they didn't plead guilty, so we're not exactly in great legal territory.
What "need" is there? Attacking Iran is clearly a war of choice like Iraq.
It was only a few years ago that the US was complaining that the Voice of America broadcasts were banned via jamming in Cuba and Ethiopia, let alone the many years of jamming under the Iron Curtain. The EU is aware of the slippery slope, once you start blocking copyright stuff then they'll move on to politically undesirable stuff. The Bush administration actively worked to block Al Jazeera, for example.
Every ME country doesn't want Israel to have nukes either, but Israel says they don't friggin care what you think. Israel is one of the single-digit holdouts that refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even Iran signed it (which is why the IAEA routinely inspects Iran).
Why are so many people surprised the Iranian people want nukes? Their democracy was overthrown in a coup that the CIA freely admits orchestrating, they lost over a million people in the Iran-Iraq war, where among other things Saddam Hussein gassed their capital. Israel keeps threatening to nuke Israel and Hebrew-language editorial pages keep agitating for it. The US has put soldiers on both the East and West borders of their country, and Bush and the new GOP candidates are running on an anti-Iran platform.
From Iran's point of view, possessing a nuclear weapon keeps you safe. Look at how Bush treated Iraq and North Korea very differently as a result. Even so, Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khaminei have both said that nuclear weapons are a sin (so if they were caught making one it would undermine their power completely), the IAEA has said that none of the Uraniam has been diverted from power-production to weapons production, and many scholars think Iran's moves over the last few years are a "nuclear latency" tactic.
Last I read on slashdot, getting a work visa for India is extremely hard, meaning Americans can't as easily go to India for work as the reverse. Anyone have more info?
The iPad 2 has HDMI out, video mirroring, composite out, and component out.
That's 431 million Pakistani rupees. It's going to go a very long way.
Neither would I, but now Apple views google as an emerging threat and is looking for a detente.
My local library in New York has a decent ebook lending program. Essentially it uses DRM-ed PDFs. Also, the New York (City) Public Library has a rather large eBook library, although it's locked into the Kindle universe.
I'd prefer to see a more cross-compatible standard that works with all the eBook readers out there, and doesn't give Amazon a monopoly, but this is better than nothing.
Linux has a relatively steep learning curve. Your sys admin idea might apply to people with lots of experience, but if you want people to replace Windows or OS X with Linux, this becomes an issue.
Why would it matter if the employee is decision-making or not? Spokespeople don't make decisions, only announce what the company has internally decided.
Your proof of this odd conspiracy theory? The iPhone doesn't even send the audio to the server.
That's quite odd, since the HSPA changes in the iPhone 4 and more in the 4S meant a huge improvement in signal strength. What carrier are you on?
More horror than Google's practices?
It's not about data, but about interpretation. Even on iPhone you could use google search to speak "weather new york." That and the various other commands require some basic knowledge about what commands are accepted. With Siri, I can ask more natural language questions like "Will I need a raincoat?" Before Siri, there were iOS and Android apps that would let you send a text message "Send text to Ashley Smith, I will be late." Siri got better, with things like "Tell my sister I'll be late" and it knows enough to recognize who is your sister, realize you want to send a text, and transcribe it, while reading it back for confirmation.
Actually, my family and friends use Facetime quite often.
Iris is a weak attempt.
Siri's advantage isn't the speech recognition or ties to Wolfram Alpha, but that it handles natural language (as TFA is referring to). I can tell Siri "I locked myself out of my apartment" and it will show me a list of nearby locksmiths to choose from via Google Maps. Iris will soon be able to do google lookups of math equations or tell me the capital of a country, but Siri goes far more than that.
It's not about knowledge or access to data, but about your device recognizing what you mean. This is unlike even established products like Dragon dictate; it stops becoming LCARS from Star Trek and turns into JARVIS from Iron Man. The various wisecracks that Siri can deliver back were also part of Apple's design to give it some attitude.
Such as buying a lot of stuff. It's like letting your kid play on Amazon.com when you have One-Click purchasing turned on.
Apple has parental controls and iTunes passwords to prevent people accidentally/maliciously buying stuff on your device.
Don't say religion when you only mean Christianity. For example, Jews and Muslims don't believe the Earth is only 6000 years old, neither do Hindus or Buddhists.
Actually no. Back in 1948 the people today known as Palestinians were citizens of British Mandate Palestine. Go read the Sykes-Picot agreement for more info. If I were to accept your supposition as true, then Israelis themselves would not be Israeli either. The UN called for creating both countries, but only one materialized. The problem is that the British promised the same land to both the Jews (via the Balfour declaration) and the Arabs (via the McMahon–Hussein letters). It was a historic screwup, compounded by revisionist zionism claims like yours that try to pretend Palestinians are a myth.
Hamas does not make up their government, ever since Fatah and Abbas engineered an anti-democratic coup and threw them all out.
You'd think Israel would be upset by this, but they actively assisted in it. Sounds like they want to keep democracy in the Middle East for themselves, since they also backed Mubarak even when he was shooting hundreds of people in the street.
I call Strawman. The UN was passing a resolution that basically said defamation of religions is exacerbating conflicts all over the world. Thus, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Christianity, is all something we should try to combat. Instead, right-wingers like you see this as "Oh noes, Muslims want to protect their hurt feelings!"
Let's face it, people die from anti-Semitism (holocaust and pogroms) and Islamophobia; the anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat, massacres in Thailand, hate crimes in Europe, etc. The atheists on slashdot keep saying (incorrectly) how religion is the cause of all wars, so let's try decreasing that as a factor, hmm?