After reading this I'm thrown into the moral dilemma between: "Forming a parents group to fight the injustice in the world that would even allow such a creation to exist let alone be exposed to 'The Children'" OR "Breaking into the lab myself to steal the Jedi-Bot and arm it properly."/. poll?
...mostly because of the worst abuse of passwords: She probably uses that password elsewhere and having the information in the public domain could potentially lead to more of her life being exposed than what's required for the case.
This is just another good reason for not reusing passwords.
...and if you'd read parent more than what you quoted you would have gotten to the following quote "Either way, the police are going to charge him with firing on them afterwards."
The point parent was possibly trying to make (which is valid) is more of a moral / intent differentiation:
Depending on which comment you believe the guy was firing as a warning or in self-defense when they decided to charge. He was not firing in an attempt to kill an officer explicitly.
Depending on your personal beliefs you may not see that as being any different but in the eyes of most religions and a strict interpretation of the law they are quite different things. (For example: If he had hit an officer he would not be guilty of 1st Degree Murder. May even drop to 3rd or even switch over to Manslaughter.)
And this post (and parent) are *exactly why i like to read/.
In every situation you'll get a wonderful combination of crazy ranting lunatics AND people who actually know what they are talking about. About literally every topic, this is true.
I can't remember what resource I was watching but at some point the phrase "Another film filling in the history of the X-Men along the lines of Wolverine" pretty clearly said it was another prequel. As opposed to the line of thought "didn't have any logic to back up thinking it would be a prequel rather than a reboot" --> This is a franchise... there was nothing indicating that it was going to be a reboot where traditionally they make a big deal about that (Star Trek, Hulk, Batman)
I loved that game. Played excellent on my Amiga 2000:)
The movie has a high percentage of suckage. I'll be positive and have hope for something great but I'll be surprised if this is any better than Tron Legacy ended up being... (note: I actually liked a lot of Legacy... just didn't live up to expectations)
This isn't Amazon twisting anything. The precedent has been established for eons back to mail order catalogs (and probably before). When you order from a company residing in a different state they are not obligated to collect the taxes from you to pay *your state for the purchase. *You are actually obligated to report such purchases and make the tax payments yourself. This is highly unenforceable (and many people have no idea they have to do so) so this ends up being a vast sea of tax evasion which the states are always trying to recoup as much of as they can.
Yes, it would be a pain for Amazon to figure out every state's tax laws and have their systems properly calculate, charge and then pay in the tax payments BUT that's not the point. They are in no way required to do so by the only entity with authority over interstate commerce (The Federal Government) and they have no incentive to do so given the costs and liabilities they would incur. SO we who don't live in states where Amazon has a significant presence get to evade taxes and procure products significantly cheaper than those who live in Amazon encumbered states, the states get to whine about their lost tax revenue, and the federal government gets to stay out of the fight until the states try to usurp their constitutionally protected powers.
The only thing that has changed between Ye Olde Sears Catalog and mighty Amazon is the scale and ease at which money is slipping away from the state's grasp AND current budget shortfalls causing states to look anywhere they can for that money.
The military has a growing interest in biometric sensors that operate at a distance. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded $1.5 million to Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Biometrics Lab to support development of technology that performs iris detection at 13 meters.
They're already using it... the issue is data set and captureability. You don't leave Iris prints at a crime scene. Also they have been collecting fingerprints for eons. Iris is a much newer tech and so, although there are some pretty massive Iris databases already growing, it is more likely that they have your print to match you than they have your Iris.
In our business the key is "multi-biometrics". we capture and search against as many biometrics as are available at the time. Severely increases the chances of identification especially in areas of the world where manual erodes the prints over time, or thugs / machinery 'remove' fingers for you, etc.
No... *YOU* missed the original post... the quote you are including is the first *REPLY* to that post slamming *THE* original poster for his lack *OF* experience.
This is exactly what Google should be doing. Open Source gives the end user a lot of Freedom but Google has the right to do certain things for the benefit and success of their "product".
I see this as two different things. Apple's clear intent is to lock down their phones so that no one can do anything they want on the phone that isn't specifically approved by the Apple overlords. Google is trying to get past the current issue of every OEM shipping a much modified 'version' of the OS causing incompatibility issues and fragmenting the market doing harm to the viral spreadability of the platform.
Although some of the hardware manufacturers are doing so (read Motorola) Google has said and done nothing to prevent you from taking that (now hopefully more) standardized Device/OS you got from your TELCO and hacking the crap out of it. They are saying "When you sell a phone and say it has Android vX.X on it that means something much more consistent."
Now... if I could just get Motorola to stop being so evil with their devices I'll be a truly happy camper (cause dammit... I really like their hardware!)
Not as true anymore.. Once AT&T was losing their iPhone monopoly they started seriously investing in Android. I absolutely love my Atrix 4G and there are many others in the pipeline. Also most of your T-Mobile handsets will carry over so not much to worry about there. Your technical service should stay the same... your customer service I can't speak for but honestly I was never happy as a T-mobile customer so that wouldn't have been a selling point for me.
I hate to sound like an AT&T shill but being that I'm on their network for the long term it's in my best interest that this sale goes through as it will improve my service area / QOS. I've had an AT&T phone of one variety or another for 17 years (T-Mobile was my work provider) and for all the slamming the iPhone people have given them my experience has always been good (at least on the technical side... CustServ isn't *any cell company's strong suit)
That's the downside of "forcing" someone to do anything. Their natural instinct is to rebel whether consciously or unconsciously. Now, if they had told you that Dr. Who was the most awesome thing ever, then denied you the ability to watch it, you would track that booty down with a vengeance and probably love the show with an Apple Fanboi kind of vigor.
There's also the issue of setting the expectations too high. They plopped you down in front of the show saying "You're going to love this." and so you wre sitting there ready to have a whole pile of awesomeness delivered straight to your brain. Dr. Who is what it is... there's a lot to love if you want to but that show really doesn't stand up to any sort of in-depth analysis. You've got to let it happen, not think about it too much and then you maybe have a chance of liking it. As many/.'rs have pointed out it was originally a children's show. Expand that demographic to include people on mind-expanding drugs who liked to watch the intro, cheesy laughable effects and the metamorphosis episodes and there you have the tone of the show. You can also add to that people who just can't get enough of British accents and low brow British comedy and I think I've just described the first 7 doctors worth of Who.
At my age demographic, I place a fairly high measure of nerdness on my peers having watched Dr. Who when they were growing up. On the other hand, I recognize the show for what it is (which is something I haven't watched an episode of in at least 20 years) and don't expect anyone to love it today and have no expectation of anyone younger having gotten into it as the world changed significantly entertainment-wise post-my childhood years.
Ya... and that's where I completely disagree with the implementation of drunken driving laws..08 to one person is *completely different than.08 to another. I firmly believe that many of those people who got busted for being over that magical little number really were fully capable of safely handling a motor vehicle. That is part of why DUI-Checkpoints are illegal in my state. The firm interpretation of the law (although not entirely followed this way by your average cop working between the hours of 11pm-3am) is that:
1) They can pull you over for breaking any number of traffic laws OR if they observe you driving erratically. This gives them a LOT of easy 'legal' reason to pull you over. 2) Once pulled over, if they suspect that you have been consuming, they have the right to give you the "Field Sobriety Test" (walk the line, follow the finger, stand on one foot, remember the alphabet backwards the same way we learned it in elementary school) 3) If you *fail that test then they have the right to give you a breathalizer which if you blow >=.08 they can book and process you on suspected driving while impaired.
The intent of that 3-step process is to establish probable cause AND to leave room for if you happen to have >=.08 in your system but you appear and perform sober to the arresting officer you will never get to step 3 and make your safe and merry way home. The contradiction with a sobriety check point is that they skip 1 and 2 and go directly to 3 where someone's physical qualities are ignored in favor of an arbitrary LOW number that was pushed into law by one of the most well funded lobbying organizations in the country.
I live in MN where checkpoints are illegal (read Unconstitutional.. same as camera-cops) BUT this is the same state where it was deemed permissible to walk a dog around your car without any probable cause. In general I really like our courts and how they interpret our constitution but it takes time and $$ to keep fighting these things to the S.C. level.
Your premise has a problem tho... you are presuming the possibility of being 'reduced' in the eyes of the 'man'.
Once you've got their attention they rarely decide you're not worth looking at anymore until they have proven to themselves that you are truly a non-issue (somewhere between cold in a grave, almost cold in a hospital or nursing home or shivering in a cell)
Although there are a couple holes I deal with frequently (service around my cabin and in the city of Winona is pathetic) in general I have better service quality than any of my friends on competing networks everywhere I go (and that's no small amount of travelling both domestically and internationally)
I would have preferred to see a Consumer Reports article that actually did its own investigation than just a survey. As mentioned the iPhone users are a fickle bunch and I don't care how they interpret their service... I want to know how it actually is! Personally I also think other phones are better "phones" despite what the iPhone may or may not do better which could lead to the show of results.
Bad Summary / RTFA. They say "our dropped call rate is within 1/10 of a percent - the equivalent of just one call in a thousand - of the industry leader." NOT that they have fewer than 0.1% dropped calls.
Exactly. Great example: 4 friends of mine started a restaurant. The idea is not new (the millions of restaurants that came before it are quite the prior art) but they had experience and some talent on their side so decided to get into the business of being the boss.
Three years later they finally had funding, a location, a plan... Three years of working multiple full time jobs as well as their 'new' full time job of getting the restaurant off the ground. Eventually construction was done, everything was ready to go, they quit their 'other' jobs and... oh wait... city delays opening due to some issues the inspectors failed to catch... and again... and again... 3 months later (after burning many a savings account) they opened their doors.
By all accounts their restaurant has been successful (unlike 99% of new restaurants out there). Well reviewed, even awarded, as well as being popular. My friends now in 'management'? They work 7 days a week (and God knows how many hours in each of those). Every few months they take a day off and feel terrible about whether the ship is stable without them (and of course 4 best-of-friends who can't take a vacation together because at least one or two have to still be on duty). Eventually, if things go really well, they can afford to hire someone to run the ship to give them a 'real' break... right up until that person fills their pockets with the till one night.
Starting a business (*any business) is a lot of work. Those that think they "just" need a programmer, or "just" need an engineer, or "just" need an investor, etc really just want to win the lottery. You're better off just buying some tickets and going home to a life more suited to your aspirations.
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Ya... it's inspiring.
After reading this I'm thrown into the moral dilemma between: "Forming a parents group to fight the injustice in the world that would even allow such a creation to exist let alone be exposed to 'The Children'" OR "Breaking into the lab myself to steal the Jedi-Bot and arm it properly." /. poll?
...mostly because of the worst abuse of passwords: She probably uses that password elsewhere and having the information in the public domain could potentially lead to more of her life being exposed than what's required for the case.
This is just another good reason for not reusing passwords.
"finally... some peace and quiet!"
No we didn't!
...and if you'd read parent more than what you quoted you would have gotten to the following quote "Either way, the police are going to charge him with firing on them afterwards."
The point parent was possibly trying to make (which is valid) is more of a moral / intent differentiation:
Depending on which comment you believe the guy was firing as a warning or in self-defense when they decided to charge. He was not firing in an attempt to kill an officer explicitly.
Depending on your personal beliefs you may not see that as being any different but in the eyes of most religions and a strict interpretation of the law they are quite different things. (For example: If he had hit an officer he would not be guilty of 1st Degree Murder. May even drop to 3rd or even switch over to Manslaughter.)
just sayin'...
And this post (and parent) are *exactly why i like to read /.
In every situation you'll get a wonderful combination of crazy ranting lunatics AND people who actually know what they are talking about. About literally every topic, this is true.
Call me old fashioned, but I refuse to call these a swarm until they can fly. :)
I can't remember what resource I was watching but at some point the phrase "Another film filling in the history of the X-Men along the lines of Wolverine" pretty clearly said it was another prequel. As opposed to the line of thought "didn't have any logic to back up thinking it would be a prequel rather than a reboot" --> This is a franchise... there was nothing indicating that it was going to be a reboot where traditionally they make a big deal about that (Star Trek, Hulk, Batman)
I loved that game. Played excellent on my Amiga 2000 :)
The movie has a high percentage of suckage. I'll be positive and have hope for something great but I'll be surprised if this is any better than Tron Legacy ended up being... (note: I actually liked a lot of Legacy... just didn't live up to expectations)
That's SO 20th century... I want my movies in 5D!!!
This isn't Amazon twisting anything. The precedent has been established for eons back to mail order catalogs (and probably before). When you order from a company residing in a different state they are not obligated to collect the taxes from you to pay *your state for the purchase. *You are actually obligated to report such purchases and make the tax payments yourself. This is highly unenforceable (and many people have no idea they have to do so) so this ends up being a vast sea of tax evasion which the states are always trying to recoup as much of as they can.
Yes, it would be a pain for Amazon to figure out every state's tax laws and have their systems properly calculate, charge and then pay in the tax payments BUT that's not the point. They are in no way required to do so by the only entity with authority over interstate commerce (The Federal Government) and they have no incentive to do so given the costs and liabilities they would incur. SO we who don't live in states where Amazon has a significant presence get to evade taxes and procure products significantly cheaper than those who live in Amazon encumbered states, the states get to whine about their lost tax revenue, and the federal government gets to stay out of the fight until the states try to usurp their constitutionally protected powers.
The only thing that has changed between Ye Olde Sears Catalog and mighty Amazon is the scale and ease at which money is slipping away from the state's grasp AND current budget shortfalls causing states to look anywhere they can for that money.
RTFA:
The military has a growing interest in biometric sensors that operate at a distance. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded $1.5 million to Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Biometrics Lab to support development of technology that performs iris detection at 13 meters.
They're already using it... the issue is data set and captureability. You don't leave Iris prints at a crime scene. Also they have been collecting fingerprints for eons. Iris is a much newer tech and so, although there are some pretty massive Iris databases already growing, it is more likely that they have your print to match you than they have your Iris.
In our business the key is "multi-biometrics". we capture and search against as many biometrics as are available at the time. Severely increases the chances of identification especially in areas of the world where manual erodes the prints over time, or thugs / machinery 'remove' fingers for you, etc.
No... *YOU* missed the original post... the quote you are including is the first *REPLY* to that post slamming *THE* original poster for his lack *OF* experience.
Get off my lawn... I was modding Pong in the 70s!
I wonder if stuff like that has the potential to change orbits of plants.
I'm certainly concerned about my garden... I can never keep it the right distance from my house!
Mod parent above 5 please ;-)
This is exactly what Google should be doing. Open Source gives the end user a lot of Freedom but Google has the right to do certain things for the benefit and success of their "product".
I see this as two different things. Apple's clear intent is to lock down their phones so that no one can do anything they want on the phone that isn't specifically approved by the Apple overlords. Google is trying to get past the current issue of every OEM shipping a much modified 'version' of the OS causing incompatibility issues and fragmenting the market doing harm to the viral spreadability of the platform.
Although some of the hardware manufacturers are doing so (read Motorola) Google has said and done nothing to prevent you from taking that (now hopefully more) standardized Device/OS you got from your TELCO and hacking the crap out of it. They are saying "When you sell a phone and say it has Android vX.X on it that means something much more consistent."
Now... if I could just get Motorola to stop being so evil with their devices I'll be a truly happy camper (cause dammit... I really like their hardware!)
Not as true anymore.. Once AT&T was losing their iPhone monopoly they started seriously investing in Android. I absolutely love my Atrix 4G and there are many others in the pipeline. Also most of your T-Mobile handsets will carry over so not much to worry about there. Your technical service should stay the same... your customer service I can't speak for but honestly I was never happy as a T-mobile customer so that wouldn't have been a selling point for me.
I hate to sound like an AT&T shill but being that I'm on their network for the long term it's in my best interest that this sale goes through as it will improve my service area / QOS. I've had an AT&T phone of one variety or another for 17 years (T-Mobile was my work provider) and for all the slamming the iPhone people have given them my experience has always been good (at least on the technical side... CustServ isn't *any cell company's strong suit)
I had no problem with TWC when i had them... right up until the much more evil Comcast came in a forced them out of our market... grr.
That's the downside of "forcing" someone to do anything. Their natural instinct is to rebel whether consciously or unconsciously. Now, if they had told you that Dr. Who was the most awesome thing ever, then denied you the ability to watch it, you would track that booty down with a vengeance and probably love the show with an Apple Fanboi kind of vigor.
There's also the issue of setting the expectations too high. They plopped you down in front of the show saying "You're going to love this." and so you wre sitting there ready to have a whole pile of awesomeness delivered straight to your brain. Dr. Who is what it is... there's a lot to love if you want to but that show really doesn't stand up to any sort of in-depth analysis. You've got to let it happen, not think about it too much and then you maybe have a chance of liking it. As many /.'rs have pointed out it was originally a children's show. Expand that demographic to include people on mind-expanding drugs who liked to watch the intro, cheesy laughable effects and the metamorphosis episodes and there you have the tone of the show. You can also add to that people who just can't get enough of British accents and low brow British comedy and I think I've just described the first 7 doctors worth of Who.
At my age demographic, I place a fairly high measure of nerdness on my peers having watched Dr. Who when they were growing up. On the other hand, I recognize the show for what it is (which is something I haven't watched an episode of in at least 20 years) and don't expect anyone to love it today and have no expectation of anyone younger having gotten into it as the world changed significantly entertainment-wise post-my childhood years.
Ya... and that's where I completely disagree with the implementation of drunken driving laws. .08 to one person is *completely different than .08 to another. I firmly believe that many of those people who got busted for being over that magical little number really were fully capable of safely handling a motor vehicle. That is part of why DUI-Checkpoints are illegal in my state. The firm interpretation of the law (although not entirely followed this way by your average cop working between the hours of 11pm-3am) is that:
1) They can pull you over for breaking any number of traffic laws OR if they observe you driving erratically. This gives them a LOT of easy 'legal' reason to pull you over.
2) Once pulled over, if they suspect that you have been consuming, they have the right to give you the "Field Sobriety Test" (walk the line, follow the finger, stand on one foot, remember the alphabet backwards the same way we learned it in elementary school)
3) If you *fail that test then they have the right to give you a breathalizer which if you blow >=.08 they can book and process you on suspected driving while impaired.
The intent of that 3-step process is to establish probable cause AND to leave room for if you happen to have >=.08 in your system but you appear and perform sober to the arresting officer you will never get to step 3 and make your safe and merry way home. The contradiction with a sobriety check point is that they skip 1 and 2 and go directly to 3 where someone's physical qualities are ignored in favor of an arbitrary LOW number that was pushed into law by one of the most well funded lobbying organizations in the country.
The funny part is where this line gets blurred.
I live in MN where checkpoints are illegal (read Unconstitutional.. same as camera-cops) BUT this is the same state where it was deemed permissible to walk a dog around your car without any probable cause. In general I really like our courts and how they interpret our constitution but it takes time and $$ to keep fighting these things to the S.C. level.
Your premise has a problem tho... you are presuming the possibility of being 'reduced' in the eyes of the 'man'.
Once you've got their attention they rarely decide you're not worth looking at anymore until they have proven to themselves that you are truly a non-issue (somewhere between cold in a grave, almost cold in a hospital or nursing home or shivering in a cell)
Although there are a couple holes I deal with frequently (service around my cabin and in the city of Winona is pathetic) in general I have better service quality than any of my friends on competing networks everywhere I go (and that's no small amount of travelling both domestically and internationally)
I would have preferred to see a Consumer Reports article that actually did its own investigation than just a survey. As mentioned the iPhone users are a fickle bunch and I don't care how they interpret their service... I want to know how it actually is! Personally I also think other phones are better "phones" despite what the iPhone may or may not do better which could lead to the show of results.
Bad Summary / RTFA. They say "our dropped call rate is within 1/10 of a percent - the equivalent of just one call in a thousand - of the industry leader." NOT that they have fewer than 0.1% dropped calls.
Exactly. Great example: 4 friends of mine started a restaurant. The idea is not new (the millions of restaurants that came before it are quite the prior art) but they had experience and some talent on their side so decided to get into the business of being the boss.
Three years later they finally had funding, a location, a plan... Three years of working multiple full time jobs as well as their 'new' full time job of getting the restaurant off the ground. Eventually construction was done, everything was ready to go, they quit their 'other' jobs and... oh wait... city delays opening due to some issues the inspectors failed to catch... and again... and again... 3 months later (after burning many a savings account) they opened their doors.
By all accounts their restaurant has been successful (unlike 99% of new restaurants out there). Well reviewed, even awarded, as well as being popular. My friends now in 'management'? They work 7 days a week (and God knows how many hours in each of those). Every few months they take a day off and feel terrible about whether the ship is stable without them (and of course 4 best-of-friends who can't take a vacation together because at least one or two have to still be on duty). Eventually, if things go really well, they can afford to hire someone to run the ship to give them a 'real' break... right up until that person fills their pockets with the till one night.
Starting a business (*any business) is a lot of work. Those that think they "just" need a programmer, or "just" need an engineer, or "just" need an investor, etc really just want to win the lottery. You're better off just buying some tickets and going home to a life more suited to your aspirations.