What deters murderers is not the penalty, but the likelihood of being caught.
And the tobacco companioes of all have gotten this one right. Practically all the advertisements over here display the "smomking may kill you" warning, not a single print ad I've seen has ever shown the "causes impotence" warning (which is just as frequently printed on the real boxes). Death is a long way off, and unlikely, so the average smoker doesn't care. Same with the death penalty.
Hang on... sooo... you are advocating a sentence of death by compulsory smoking?
Well... people will cherry pick what they want out of stuff, and will NEVER implement it all according to your perfect idea. Reality simply doesn't allow for perfect implementations according to an abstract theoretical model.
That is a 100% true fact. It's true for Agile. It's true for Waterfall. It's true of religions, philosophies, and all other -isms.
At the end of the day, someone says "but you didn't do all of the things I said you should and therefore the failure of my awesomeness must be in how you did it".
Which is convenient and all, but if your system comes down to "my idea is perfect but your execution sucked"... well, maybe your perfect idea is far too damned reliant on fundamentally unrealistic assumptions which aren't justified?
If your perfect abstraction doesn't hold up to reality, maybe it's not reality which is lacking? Or at the very least that your perfect abstraction is an incomplete theoretical model.
No software development methodology survives first contact with actual coding.
this is what is actually happening in the West. All the 'will to power' is being bled out of life, participation in 'the power process' is being relegated to the top 1%. Ordinary people are being taken so far out of just participation in their own lives that they are feeling increasingly helpless and having to create artificial ways to feel like they have some kind of control and participation.
The thing with drones today is that its at a bit of a cusp in the technological capability.
Personally, I see 'drones' which you have to control manually, with joysticks, as 'RC toys'. Whereas the new generation of programmable drones (fly a loop at this orientation, this diameter and centered at this altitude) are flying robots. Its this later generation thats going to (er) take off. Likely to be MUCH safer, more precise.
One very interesting application I read about was 3d printing; quadrocopter drones with cans of foam which can be sprayed at programmed points building structures.
I just drove the I-5 all of the way from LA to San Francisco yesterday as I'd brought a carful of test equipment to an engineer there. I didn't fly because of the freight I had, but in general train transport is better for carrying a lot of baggage. Less handling, less fees for freight.
Also, planes can't compete when there's a good high-speed rail, because of their logistical complications. Airports are usually far from town and require their own train to get to. Nobody takes a plane instead of Eurostar. While Southwest will survive on its many other routes, their SFO to LAX route is doomed.
Having traveled extensively in Europe, and having enjoyed never having to use a car and rarely needing a plane because their trains are so fast, cheap, and efficient, I marvel at the idiocy of our citizens, it's not the government's fault, in not having insisted on keeping and improving rail since the 40's. Americans are total retards about this, they can't ever have any excuse.
I once moved from one NZ city to another by train. I showed up at the station with suitcases, several large cardboard boxes, even some furniture. I loaded it all on the overnight train. No one batted an eyelid!
If the DHS/TSA have anything to do with it I'm sure that the lack of groping and 'security' delays on the train will be an obstacle that suitable laws will overcome.
You didn't actually answer the question as to what happens if an innocent man is executed.
I think some people view this in a similar way to the military and 'acceptable losses' or 'collateral damage'. They think that since, in military operations, a certain level of combat casualties, innocent civilian casualties or friendly fire incidents are unavoidable and an acceptable 'cost of doing business'.
They fail to recognise the difference between the civil legal system and warfare. And remember, the USA has been at war for most of its existence, its become a way of life and just background noise in the news media.
The problem with this statistic is that it ties violent crime to race without properly normalizing for income inequality. Efforts to do this have seen mixed results: http://blogs.channel4.com/fact...
The only thing that is certain is that poverty and neighborhood conditions are directly and unequivocally linked to major crime. It is pretty clear that promoting education and opportunity is vastly more effective at reducing crime and violence than targeting race.
If you normalised for income, wouldn't the stats then say that poor black people are much more likely to murder than poor white or asian people?
If my website just serves up public data that I don't care about the government seeing, you're going to disable new features on it anyway? Seems a bit extreme.
I get the feeling Mozilla don't want anyone to use their browser...
So Mozilla you do not want me to use your browser? You are going to cripple your browser for your perceived 'better' agenda.
I was thinking that.
The goal of this effort is also to send a message to the web developer community that they need to be secure.
No, Mozilla.
The message this sends to the web developer community is "Don't bother with Mozilla because no one will keep using it so just develop for browsers that actually get used."
Making strong crypto illegal would only affect those in the US's jurisdiction. It would not affect the most desirable targets (outside US jurisdiction) and would have a chilling effect on demand for US technology products.
Theres already a chilling effect on demand for US technology products.
I'd like to see a company in a privacy-respecting nation such as Netherlands to release some decent network hardware...
If you repeat a lie long enough it will surely become reality. But, maybe, if you travel a little you will come to see the profound differences.
I've lived in 5 countries on 4 continents, 1st, 2nd and 3rd world.
Genetically, biologically, the differences are merely at the level of family resemblance and traits. The so-called 'races' are nothing more than HUGE extended families.
So from what species belong all the very different, but single race, human populations?
What you are referring to is political correctness ("changed over time, and is still in flux"). Some idiot believe that if you denies the existence of races you get rid of racism. Which is non-sense. There are clearly several human races and only by acknowledging this we can learn to live together.
Identifying stupid is easy when they claim that there is just one 'human race' and at the same time celebrate 'diversity'...
They are hardly 'very different', the differences are just at the level of family resemblance
A keylogger that runs on one VM to spy on anther is a huge deal, if true. A great many companies rely on VM isolation to keep customers separated cleanly on the same host. The entire "compute" cloud, for starters.
What makes you think the apps need to run on both machines to leak data? CPU cache snooping can see almost anything.
Federal judges can do whatever they want. There are no limits to the kinds of orders they can issue, unless overturned by a higher court which this won't be.
Judges can't do whatever they want. We have this thing called law. FUCK
Since when did Americans allow the law to stand in the way of justice? FUCK
Federal judges can do whatever they want. There are no limits to the kinds of orders they can issue, unless overturned by a higher court which this won't be.
Kind of like ASBOs in the UK?
"Cannot wear baggy pants in public places between the hours of 6pm and 6am"
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Its murder when someone you disagree with kills someone in a way you disapprove of.
When the shoe is on the other foot its 'execution' or, at worse, 'unlawful killing'.
What deters murderers is not the penalty, but the likelihood of being caught.
And the tobacco companioes of all have gotten this one right. Practically all the advertisements over here display the "smomking may kill you" warning, not a single print ad I've seen has ever shown the "causes impotence" warning (which is just as frequently printed on the real boxes). Death is a long way off, and unlikely, so the average smoker doesn't care. Same with the death penalty.
Hang on... sooo... you are advocating a sentence of death by compulsory smoking?
Well ... people will cherry pick what they want out of stuff, and will NEVER implement it all according to your perfect idea. Reality simply doesn't allow for perfect implementations according to an abstract theoretical model.
That is a 100% true fact. It's true for Agile. It's true for Waterfall. It's true of religions, philosophies, and all other -isms.
At the end of the day, someone says "but you didn't do all of the things I said you should and therefore the failure of my awesomeness must be in how you did it".
Which is convenient and all, but if your system comes down to "my idea is perfect but your execution sucked" ... well, maybe your perfect idea is far too damned reliant on fundamentally unrealistic assumptions which aren't justified?
If your perfect abstraction doesn't hold up to reality, maybe it's not reality which is lacking? Or at the very least that your perfect abstraction is an incomplete theoretical model.
No software development methodology survives first contact with actual coding.
No, you're just a troll, the kind of person who is so intimidated by the real world that he has to go on the Internet to prove he's a real man.
No, there really *is* pussification of society going on in the Western world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
this is what is actually happening in the West. All the 'will to power' is being bled out of life, participation in 'the power process' is being relegated to the top 1%. Ordinary people are being taken so far out of just participation in their own lives that they are feeling increasingly helpless and having to create artificial ways to feel like they have some kind of control and participation.
The thing with drones today is that its at a bit of a cusp in the technological capability.
Personally, I see 'drones' which you have to control manually, with joysticks, as 'RC toys'. Whereas the new generation of programmable drones (fly a loop at this orientation, this diameter and centered at this altitude) are flying robots. Its this later generation thats going to (er) take off. Likely to be MUCH safer, more precise.
One very interesting application I read about was 3d printing; quadrocopter drones with cans of foam which can be sprayed at programmed points building structures.
You can walk your doggie. You can ride your bicycle.
Everything else is banned.
'Everything not forbidden is compulsory' or 'Anything that is not compulsory is forbidden.' take your pick...
I just drove the I-5 all of the way from LA to San Francisco yesterday as I'd brought a carful of test equipment to an engineer there. I didn't fly because of the freight I had, but in general train transport is better for carrying a lot of baggage. Less handling, less fees for freight.
Also, planes can't compete when there's a good high-speed rail, because of their logistical complications. Airports are usually far from town and require their own train to get to. Nobody takes a plane instead of Eurostar. While Southwest will survive on its many other routes, their SFO to LAX route is doomed.
Having traveled extensively in Europe, and having enjoyed never having to use a car and rarely needing a plane because their trains are so fast, cheap, and efficient, I marvel at the idiocy of our citizens, it's not the government's fault, in not having insisted on keeping and improving rail since the 40's. Americans are total retards about this, they can't ever have any excuse.
I once moved from one NZ city to another by train. I showed up at the station with suitcases, several large cardboard boxes, even some furniture. I loaded it all on the overnight train. No one batted an eyelid!
I very much doubt you will avoid the TSA groping.
You seriously think the TSA is going to miss an opportunity for more security theater just because its a train??
Right now you might not need a TSA groping to get on a train but theres still time.
If the DHS/TSA have anything to do with it I'm sure that the lack of groping and 'security' delays on the train will be an obstacle that suitable laws will overcome.
You didn't actually answer the question as to what happens if an innocent man is executed.
I think some people view this in a similar way to the military and 'acceptable losses' or 'collateral damage'. They think that since, in military operations, a certain level of combat casualties, innocent civilian casualties or friendly fire incidents are unavoidable and an acceptable 'cost of doing business'.
They fail to recognise the difference between the civil legal system and warfare. And remember, the USA has been at war for most of its existence, its become a way of life and just background noise in the news media.
But then you might like Japan, with 0.3 :) But only if you're a man. Women get killer more over there.
I'd be surprised if women are allowed to murder in Saudi Arabia.
It is statistically a fact that in the U.S. a black person is roughly 7 times more likely to commit murder than a white person (about 7 thousands of a percent vs. 1 thousandth of a percent):
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
The problem with this statistic is that it ties violent crime to race without properly normalizing for income inequality. Efforts to do this have seen mixed results: http://blogs.channel4.com/fact...
The only thing that is certain is that poverty and neighborhood conditions are directly and unequivocally linked to major crime. It is pretty clear that promoting education and opportunity is vastly more effective at reducing crime and violence than targeting race.
If you normalised for income, wouldn't the stats then say that poor black people are much more likely to murder than poor white or asian people?
I still think that parking a fucking huge electromagnet right outside the evidence room is the way to go...
Forensic ram dumps don't trip new hardware detection logic. They use DMA only and copy everything down.
They have to plug into a port.
Every port is occupied. They have to unplug something to plug their gadget in. When they do that, *poof* pupu go byebye.
I did my first computing course in 1980, I had a ZX81, I was running Linux in 1992.
I'm now 51. Guess I'm not a 'digital native'!?!?!
If my website just serves up public data that I don't care about the government seeing, you're going to disable new features on it anyway? Seems a bit extreme.
I get the feeling Mozilla don't want anyone to use their browser...
So Mozilla you do not want me to use your browser? You are going to cripple your browser for your perceived 'better' agenda.
I was thinking that.
The goal of this effort is also to send a message to the web developer community that they need to be secure.
No, Mozilla.
The message this sends to the web developer community is "Don't bother with Mozilla because no one will keep using it so just develop for browsers that actually get used."
I believe that the head of the NSA has already indicated that he believes there should be a framework to give, eg the Chinese, access.
Making strong crypto illegal would only affect those in the US's jurisdiction. It would not affect the most desirable targets (outside US jurisdiction) and would have a chilling effect on demand for US technology products.
Theres already a chilling effect on demand for US technology products.
I'd like to see a company in a privacy-respecting nation such as Netherlands to release some decent network hardware...
If you repeat a lie long enough it will surely become reality. But, maybe, if you travel a little you will come to see the profound differences.
I've lived in 5 countries on 4 continents, 1st, 2nd and 3rd world.
Genetically, biologically, the differences are merely at the level of family resemblance and traits. The so-called 'races' are nothing more than HUGE extended families.
So from what species belong all the very different, but single race, human populations?
What you are referring to is political correctness ("changed over time, and is still in flux"). Some idiot believe that if you denies the existence of races you get rid of racism. Which is non-sense. There are clearly several human races and only by acknowledging this we can learn to live together.
Identifying stupid is easy when they claim that there is just one 'human race' and at the same time celebrate 'diversity'...
They are hardly 'very different', the differences are just at the level of family resemblance
Thin clients? Remote Desktop Services cluster?
This is in the context of the virtualisation *host* not the guests.
A keylogger that runs on one VM to spy on anther is a huge deal, if true. A great many companies rely on VM isolation to keep customers separated cleanly on the same host. The entire "compute" cloud, for starters.
What makes you think the apps need to run on both machines to leak data? CPU cache snooping can see almost anything.
You are running a browser on the VM's host???
Federal judges can do whatever they want. There are no limits to the kinds of orders they can issue, unless overturned by a higher court which this won't be.
Judges can't do whatever they want. We have this thing called law.
FUCK
Since when did Americans allow the law to stand in the way of justice?
FUCK
Federal judges can do whatever they want. There are no limits to the kinds of orders they can issue, unless overturned by a higher court which this won't be.
Kind of like ASBOs in the UK?
"Cannot wear baggy pants in public places between the hours of 6pm and 6am"