Yes, police have all that stuff. On the other hand, they don't give a shit about your iphone being stolen, and will likely never investigate.
Look at the numbers.
It's a growing crime in the Bay Area and across the country; more than 3 million people nationwide were victims of cell phone theft last year.
An estimated 60 percent of all robberies in Oakland involved a mobile device last year. According to the San Francisco District Attorney's office, 67 percent of robberies in that city involved a stolen mobile device.
Now try working with the police instead of falling back on your favorite Slashdot meme.
Vanna Bong knows first-hand how effective tracking software can be. She's helped customers at the Quick Communications store in Alameda use it to find lost phones and tablets, and even used it herself a few months ago when burglars ransacked her home and stole her personal electronics, worth more than $6,000 dollars.
Bong used tracking software to pinpoint the location of her stolen devices and tracked the thieves and her stolen items down.
''It was 10 minutes away. They took it to McDonalds where they were using free wifi,'' Bong said. ''I was really surprised, I didn't know that it was going to pinpoint the exact address''
Tracking software was one of the tools Oakland police used to find and arrest two suspected cell phone robbers on Thursday. The robbers stole a smart phone from a woman walking down the 600 block of Grand Avenue around 10 p.m. that evening. Moments before, the same robbers were believed to have stolen a cell phone from another victim on the 3000 block of Broadway in Oakland.
The woman from the Grand Ave. robbery called police, and using tracking software, told police dispatchers the location of her phone and the robbers.
Police found the phone, arrested two suspected robbers and are going through several other stolen items the robbers had when arrested.
Think.
Your eyewitness account will most likely lead nowhere.
A "rehabilitation system" is what's needed, and what's always been needed: if someone harms society, do what's needed and humane to discourage them from harming society again.
What form of "rehab" has ever proved more effective than hard time and the fine that bites --- hard?
A. Hire someone to maintain and work on that software.
B. Whine about someone not giving you their time for free.
C. Buy a commercial solution which costs you 50 k USD a year and has at most same level of support as OpenSSL
$50K a year can be a bargain compared to development and maintenance in-house. A $50K donation to a project like OpenSSL will underwrite maybe six months work by a full-time developer.
This is equivalent of showing a bad movie on an HD TV and a good movie on an old CRT. The audience will still prefer the good movie, and if you asked them about the picture quality most wouldn't have noticed.
Frozen grossed one billion dollars in first run theatrical release. Blu-Ray and CD audio sales have been strong.
If you can forgive the pun, I think it's long past time the geek let go of the notion that audio and video quality doesn't matter to the home audience.
Break up the big providers to ensure meaningful competition.
That doesn't solve the problem of the 2K and 4K video download from Netflix and other services. Fully half of prime time download traffic in the states was a Netflix stream before Netflix offered a streaming only service, before Netflix had HD service.
But the user clearly does not want a personalised web-browsing experience.
The geek may not want the personalized browsing experience. But the geek doesn't speak for everyone.
The Web has been hijacked and is now fundamentally broken. It is being transformed into a locked-in content delivery platform, something like cable TV
What did you expect to happen when hundred of millions of people with no preconceptions of what the web and the Internet "should be" began purchasing broadband services? You can't even assume anymore that a user is accessing the web through a general purpose computer and browser ---
and not an HDTV, WiFi Internet radio, e-book Reader, video game console, smartphone, tablet or some other device.
We'll need to develop another Internet, this one has been taken over by marketroids and is beyond saving.
Go for it.
But you are building nothing but an echo chamber, a walled garden for the geek.
The Mayday PAC, as itâ(TM)s called, seeks to raise enough money to sway five House elections in 2014 and elect representatives.
The House has 435 members with voting rights.
It is May and the Mayday PAC doesn't have a list of five plausible targets.
1) Districts which are being seriously contested.
2) Districts in which a stand on PACs and campaign reform can be decisive in a primary or an election.
The problem here is that it is easy to run against "the lobbyists" or "the PACs" in general. But god help you if you are drawn into specifics. Your stand on political action by the NRA, for example. The Catholic Church...
The PAC can have a local constituency which is anchored in bedrock.
Most of the 4,600 active, registered PACs are "connected PACs" established by businesses, labor unions, trade groups, or health organizations.
Groups with an ideological mission, single-issue groups, and members of Congress and other political leaders may form "non-connected PACs". These organizations may accept funds from any individual, connected PAC, or organization. As of January 2009, there were 1,594 non-connected PACs, the fastest-growing category.
Super PACs, officially known as "independent-expenditure only committees," may not make contributions to candidate campaigns or parties, but may engage in unlimited political spending independently of the campaigns. Unlike traditional PACs, they can raise funds from individuals, corporations, unions, and other groups without any legal limit on donation size.
According to FEC advisories, Super PACs are not allowed to coordinate directly with candidates or political parties. This restriction is intended to prevent them from operating campaigns that complement or parallel those of the candidates they support or engaging in negotiations that could result in quid pro quo bargaining between donors to the PAC and the candidate or officeholder. However, it is legal for candidates and Super PAC managers to discuss campaign strategy and tactics through the media.
The difference between taking a video with a drone and posting it on youtube, and a reporter taking a video and showing in a news report is essentially zero.
The difference lies in commercial sale and distribution.
The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination was captured quite by chance by a man with an 8mm camera.
On the morning of November 23, CBS lost the bidding for the footage to Life magazine's $150,000 offer.
Reality is probably closer to: "we'll try ever harsher and dumber DRM and rights constriction in order to stay the eventual decline of our business model."
Frozen had a billion dollar theatrical gross. 3.2 million DVD and Blu-Ray sales on its first day of release. The CD deluxe album 12 weeks as No 1 on the Billboard 200 charts, with no end in sight. If the Broadway production is any damned good it could be as long lived as The Lion King.
Pixar will have nothing in theaters this summer. DreamWorks will have Dragons 2.
The paying customer has a voice in future productions. Stories. Talents, Budgets. Life is good if you are a fan of "Game of Thrones" or Disney's "Frozen."
Oklahoma law includes a fall-back to execution by electrocution or firing squad if lethal injection is found unconstitutional. State by State Database
As of October 31, 2010:
men account for 98.3 percent (3206) of the persons currently on death row, while women account for 1.7 percent (55).
men account for 99 percent (1220) of the persons executed in recent years, while women account for 1.0 percent (12)
all of the reports are suggesting that it was a blown out blood vessel, so the whole thing would've been botched no matter what drugs they had actually used.
The reports all come from the same source: the team that botched the execution. It is essential that there be an independent autopsy,
How much did Smalltalk cost and what were the hardware requirements?
During the late 1980s to mid-1990s, Smalltalk environments ---including support, training and add-ons --- were sold by two competing organizations: ParcPlace Systems and Digitalk, both California based. ParcPlace Systems tended to focus on the Unix/Sun Microsystems market, while Digitalk focused on Intel-based PCs running Microsoft Windows or IBM's OS/2. Both firms struggled to take Smalltalk mainstream due to Smalltalk's substantial memory needs, limited run-time performance, and initial lack of supported connectivity to SQL-based relational database servers.... While the high price of ParcPlace Smalltalk limited its market penetration to mid-sized and large commercial organizations, the Digitalk products initially tried to reach a wider audience with a lower price.
If IBM had gone to Chuck Moore instead of Bill Gates (or rather, his mom) for their 4.77MHz 8088 PC
Microsoft was selling microcomputer BASIC to Fortune 500 clients as early as 1976. It became the most visible --- and the most successful --- developer of programming languages for the micro in the eight bit era and well positioned to move into system software and applications.
Too many people who would prefer to have equal access to everything... until they can't watch their show without it buffering.
What you are really saying is that the way most people use their broadband Internet service is changing ---- and triple AAA streaming media content from Netflix and others has priority.
As I recall, Word Perfect was better than Microsoft Word in almost every respect. In fact, Word Perfect 5.0 is probably better in many ways than the current incarnation of Word. Sigh.
Word Perfect was the quintessential DOS-era, character based, word processor, ported to every operating system known to man, each with its own fiefdom within the company.
Its struggles with the transition to a graphical UI did not begin or end with Windows --- and it stumbled badly as the word processor began to evolve into the integrated office suite. Almost Perfect
I'm not surprised by this ruling at all. The current Supreme Court is very friendly towards businesses acting badly.
The Supreme Court is interested only in cases which offer the best opportunity to debate and decide substantial issues of federal constitutional law. The court receives around 10,000 petitions for a writ of certiorari each year. Seventy to eighty will go on to oral argument,
For some reason people are obsessed with finding a single reason for the disintegration of the Roman empire but the truth is that there were many causes
and by Roman empire they mean the western empire.
The eastern empire survived in more or less recognizable form into the fifteenth century.
It seems to me that not switching to wind, solar and nuclear and not putting oodles of funds into fusion research will have not only a negative impact on the human species in general,
General Electric's "Carousel of Progress" at the New York World's Fair in 1964 ended in a demonstration of fusion.
We seem no closer to fusion power now than we were then.
Cows graze around boulders and on slopes, where tractors can't work. They cannot be effectively replaced.
Cattle production in the US is concentrated in the flatlands of Texas and the Great Plains. All Cattle & Calves... Nevada, much in the news these last few weeks, ranks 37th.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, police have all that stuff. On the other hand, they don't give a shit about your iphone being stolen, and will likely never investigate.
Look at the numbers.
It's a growing crime in the Bay Area and across the country; more than 3 million people nationwide were victims of cell phone theft last year.
An estimated 60 percent of all robberies in Oakland involved a mobile device last year. According to the San Francisco District Attorney's office, 67 percent of robberies in that city involved a stolen mobile device.
Now try working with the police instead of falling back on your favorite Slashdot meme.
Vanna Bong knows first-hand how effective tracking software can be. She's helped customers at the Quick Communications store in Alameda use it to find lost phones and tablets, and even used it herself a few months ago when burglars ransacked her home and stole her personal electronics, worth more than $6,000 dollars.
Bong used tracking software to pinpoint the location of her stolen devices and tracked the thieves and her stolen items down.
''It was 10 minutes away. They took it to McDonalds where they were using free wifi,'' Bong said. ''I was really surprised, I didn't know that it was going to pinpoint the exact address''
Tracking software was one of the tools Oakland police used to find and arrest two suspected cell phone robbers on Thursday. The robbers stole a smart phone from a woman walking down the 600 block of Grand Avenue around 10 p.m. that evening. Moments before, the same robbers were believed to have stolen a cell phone from another victim on the 3000 block of Broadway in Oakland.
The woman from the Grand Ave. robbery called police, and using tracking software, told police dispatchers the location of her phone and the robbers.
Police found the phone, arrested two suspected robbers and are going through several other stolen items the robbers had when arrested.
Think.
Your eyewitness account will most likely lead nowhere.
The GPS fix is pure gold.
Sorry that is NOT programming.
The second lesson introduces basic programming concepts to navigate a maze.
You construct your program using graphical building blocks. But you can expose the equivalent JavaScript code.
... why not look at what Code.org has to offer?
This is not a sampling, and it is free to all.
K-8 Intro To Computer Science Course (15-25 hours)
A "rehabilitation system" is what's needed, and what's always been needed: if someone harms society, do what's needed and humane to discourage them from harming society again.
What form of "rehab" has ever proved more effective than hard time and the fine that bites --- hard?
A. Hire someone to maintain and work on that software.
B. Whine about someone not giving you their time for free.
C. Buy a commercial solution which costs you 50 k USD a year and has at most same level of support as OpenSSL
$50K a year can be a bargain compared to development and maintenance in-house. A $50K donation to a project like OpenSSL will underwrite maybe six months work by a full-time developer.
Two seconds and a small screwdriver to pop out that stupid flow restrictor works wonders. Five minutes and a drill handles anything tougher to remove.
You will take a hit on your water and heating bills.
This is equivalent of showing a bad movie on an HD TV and a good movie on an old CRT. The audience will still prefer the good movie, and if you asked them about the picture quality most wouldn't have noticed.
Frozen grossed one billion dollars in first run theatrical release. Blu-Ray and CD audio sales have been strong.
If you can forgive the pun, I think it's long past time the geek let go of the notion that audio and video quality doesn't matter to the home audience.
Break up the big providers to ensure meaningful competition.
That doesn't solve the problem of the 2K and 4K video download from Netflix and other services. Fully half of prime time download traffic in the states was a Netflix stream before Netflix offered a streaming only service, before Netflix had HD service.
But the user clearly does not want a personalised web-browsing experience.
The geek may not want the personalized browsing experience. But the geek doesn't speak for everyone.
The Web has been hijacked and is now fundamentally broken. It is being transformed into a locked-in content delivery platform, something like cable TV
What did you expect to happen when hundred of millions of people with no preconceptions of what the web and the Internet "should be" began purchasing broadband services? You can't even assume anymore that a user is accessing the web through a general purpose computer and browser ---
and not an HDTV, WiFi Internet radio, e-book Reader, video game console, smartphone, tablet or some other device.
We'll need to develop another Internet, this one has been taken over by marketroids and is beyond saving.
Go for it.
But you are building nothing but an echo chamber, a walled garden for the geek.
Nothing but a bubble --- and bubbles burst,
The Mayday PAC, as itâ(TM)s called, seeks to raise enough money to sway five House elections in 2014 and elect representatives.
The House has 435 members with voting rights.
It is May and the Mayday PAC doesn't have a list of five plausible targets.
1) Districts which are being seriously contested.
2) Districts in which a stand on PACs and campaign reform can be decisive in a primary or an election.
The problem here is that it is easy to run against "the lobbyists" or "the PACs" in general. But god help you if you are drawn into specifics. Your stand on political action by the NRA, for example. The Catholic Church...
The PAC can have a local constituency which is anchored in bedrock.
Most of the 4,600 active, registered PACs are "connected PACs" established by businesses, labor unions, trade groups, or health organizations.
Groups with an ideological mission, single-issue groups, and members of Congress and other political leaders may form "non-connected PACs". These organizations may accept funds from any individual, connected PAC, or organization. As of January 2009, there were 1,594 non-connected PACs, the fastest-growing category.
Super PACs, officially known as "independent-expenditure only committees," may not make contributions to candidate campaigns or parties, but may engage in unlimited political spending independently of the campaigns. Unlike traditional PACs, they can raise funds from individuals, corporations, unions, and other groups without any legal limit on donation size.
According to FEC advisories, Super PACs are not allowed to coordinate directly with candidates or political parties. This restriction is intended to prevent them from operating campaigns that complement or parallel those of the candidates they support or engaging in negotiations that could result in quid pro quo bargaining between donors to the PAC and the candidate or officeholder. However, it is legal for candidates and Super PAC managers to discuss campaign strategy and tactics through the media.
Political action committee
The difference between taking a video with a drone and posting it on youtube, and a reporter taking a video and showing in a news report is essentially zero.
The difference lies in commercial sale and distribution.
The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination was captured quite by chance by a man with an 8mm camera.
On the morning of November 23, CBS lost the bidding for the footage to Life magazine's $150,000 offer.
Zapruder film
That is $1,127,000, adjusted for inflation.
It is the business of the pro to get the "money shot," whatever the event he is covering.
Reality is probably closer to:
"we'll try ever harsher and dumber DRM and rights constriction in order to stay the eventual decline of our business model."
Frozen had a billion dollar theatrical gross. 3.2 million DVD and Blu-Ray sales on its first day of release. The CD deluxe album 12 weeks as No 1 on the Billboard 200 charts, with no end in sight. If the Broadway production is any damned good it could be as long lived as The Lion King.
Pixar will have nothing in theaters this summer. DreamWorks will have Dragons 2.
Or they'll all continue to be free..
The paying customer has a voice in future productions. Stories. Talents, Budgets. Life is good if you are a fan of "Game of Thrones" or Disney's "Frozen."
Why does the US still even have the Death penalty?
Michigan abolished the depth penalty in 1846, Wisconsin in 1853. States With and Without the Death Penalty
Oklahoma law includes a fall-back to execution by electrocution or firing squad if lethal injection is found unconstitutional. State by State Database
As of October 31, 2010:
men account for 98.3 percent (3206) of the persons currently on death row, while women account for 1.7 percent (55).
men account for 99 percent (1220) of the persons executed in recent years, while women account for 1.0 percent (12)
From the same page, a fascinating look at the last executions solely for crimes other than homicide The last women to be executed for a crime other than homicide were Hannah Piggen in 1785 and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953.
all of the reports are suggesting that it was a blown out blood vessel, so the whole thing would've been botched no matter what drugs they had actually used.
The reports all come from the same source: the team that botched the execution. It is essential that there be an independent autopsy,
This was technically feasible at that time.
How much did Smalltalk cost and what were the hardware requirements?
During the late 1980s to mid-1990s, Smalltalk environments ---including support, training and add-ons --- were sold by two competing organizations: ParcPlace Systems and Digitalk, both California based. ParcPlace Systems tended to focus on the Unix/Sun Microsystems market, while Digitalk focused on Intel-based PCs running Microsoft Windows or IBM's OS/2. Both firms struggled to take Smalltalk mainstream due to Smalltalk's substantial memory needs, limited run-time performance, and initial lack of supported connectivity to SQL-based relational database servers.... While the high price of ParcPlace Smalltalk limited its market penetration to mid-sized and large commercial organizations, the Digitalk products initially tried to reach a wider audience with a lower price.
Smalltalk
If IBM had gone to Chuck Moore instead of Bill Gates (or rather, his mom) for their 4.77MHz 8088 PC
Microsoft was selling microcomputer BASIC to Fortune 500 clients as early as 1976. It became the most visible --- and the most successful --- developer of programming languages for the micro in the eight bit era and well positioned to move into system software and applications.
Too many people who would prefer to have equal access to everything... until they can't watch their show without it buffering.
What you are really saying is that the way most people use their broadband Internet service is changing ---- and triple AAA streaming media content from Netflix and others has priority.
As I recall, Word Perfect was better than Microsoft Word in almost every respect. In fact, Word Perfect 5.0 is probably better in many ways than the current incarnation of Word. Sigh.
Word Perfect was the quintessential DOS-era, character based, word processor, ported to every operating system known to man, each with its own fiefdom within the company.
Its struggles with the transition to a graphical UI did not begin or end with Windows --- and it stumbled badly as the word processor began to evolve into the integrated office suite. Almost Perfect
The current Supreme Court is very friendly towards businesses paying them well.
Bribery remains the geek's all-purpose explanation for any legal or political decision he doesn't like. It's a sign of laziness if not impotence.
I'm not surprised by this ruling at all. The current Supreme Court is very friendly towards businesses acting badly.
The Supreme Court is interested only in cases which offer the best opportunity to debate and decide substantial issues of federal constitutional law. The court receives around 10,000 petitions for a writ of certiorari each year. Seventy to eighty will go on to oral argument,
For some reason people are obsessed with finding a single reason for the disintegration of the Roman empire but the truth is that there were many causes
and by Roman empire they mean the western empire.
The eastern empire survived in more or less recognizable form into the fifteenth century.
It seems to me that not switching to wind, solar and nuclear and not putting oodles of funds into fusion research will have not only a negative impact on the human species in general,
General Electric's "Carousel of Progress" at the New York World's Fair in 1964 ended in a demonstration of fusion.
We seem no closer to fusion power now than we were then.
Cows graze around boulders and on slopes, where tractors can't work. They cannot be effectively replaced.
Cattle production in the US is concentrated in the flatlands of Texas and the Great Plains. All Cattle & Calves... Nevada, much in the news these last few weeks, ranks 37th.
I know this is crazy, but you could share your apartment with one for free.
That among other violations of his lease lead to a neighbor being evicted from his low-rent apartment.