The problem here is not whether or not the predictions work, but whether or not the preventative programs work. You (and the author) are assuming the programs are pieces of crap that if you exposed an innocent man to, would encourage them to commit crimes. That might be the case if they are really just punishment details, not preventative programs.
Lets assume it goes the other way. Instead of putting the pre-criminals in pre-jail, they are in fact giving them real help. Lets go full out, top of the line, and assume they are paying for a full time psychiatrist. Or maybe signing them up for a high end college-prep boarding school.
You know, the kind of things that liberal rich parents do when their kids get arrested, not the kinds of things that far right, zealous conservative judges do when they catch you desecrating a church.
Given that assumption than all your arguments are crap. The article did NOT go into depth about the preventative methods. You are basically yelling about something you have not even looked at. Stop complaining about IBM's pre-crime prediction algorythm and instead demand more information preventative programs. Maybe they are crappy 'pre-jail' stuff and should be stopped. But they could be real treatment programs that we can't afford to give to all the naughty kids, but we can afford to give to the kids at extreme risk.
A debit card is a fool's device. It has all of the disadvantages of a credit card without the free use of a months worth of money.
Pay the messily $55 for an American Express card. It has all of the advantages of a credit card without any of the disadvantages. The money is worth it and you can make it up in a years worth of whatever point system you like (I like ONE, because it pays cash quickly.)
Specifically, there has to be a requirement any contract that is NOT signed by a lawyer for the both sides as well as the participants, must:
1. Be no more than 800 words (2 pages or so)
2. Contain no latin or other legal terms that the average High School Graduate does not understand.
If the contract is longer or uses other words, than non-lawyers can NOT be expected to understand them anymore than I could be expected to understand a page in French.
Human security guards check faces, computers should check voices saying a randomly choosen word. It is simple and PC's already support microphones.
Yes it won't be perfect, but that's not the question. The question is will voice recognition fail more often than people forget their passwords.
I have to check a password clue book (to figure out which of about 12 different passwords go with which appliction) about once a week. I bet the voice recognition will be better than that.
This is more of the same old crap the manufactuers have been pushing for years.
They really truly want to rent you their products. They want to retain ownership and control, being able to prevent you from puting what you want on it.
But people don't want to rent, not even at really low prices. The Apple costs $500 and most people expect it to last two years, so Apple could have tried to renting it to us at $25/month with a two year contract and an option to renew at $5/month after that. But that would not fly, because people want to own.
So they 'sell' it to us, then try to put ridiculous restraints on it via every which way they can. Bullcrap. If we buy it, we can do whatever we want with it. Including installing Flash crap if we so choose. No one wants to rent your stuff, so stop tyring to get the benefits of renting.
Against: School is for your own benefit, people don't pay you to eat, breathe, have sex, etc.
For: School is a) not just for your own benefit, but good for society as a whole. Much of what you learn will never be useful to you. b) What you do learn is almost never useful immediately but instead becomes useful 10 years later. Anyone that studies teaching will tell you that it is best to provide an instant reward. Giving a dog a treat 10 minutes after he learns a trick does nothing, but if you give when he does it, he will learn the trick.
Or to simplify: Capitalism works better than Communism.
You confuse simplicity with easy.
No. Wrong. Think fractacls. One simple pattern that is VERY hard to draw.
AI without creativity is just pattern matching. Period. Now, it is a very, very very complex pattern matching, and that is NOT easy.
Do you stop carrying books if they move to books on tape? Do libraries refuse to carry fiction? No.
Libraries are places where we store and share media, not just written words. Video games are the new media and deserve to be stored.
As for copyright protection, the library should have the legal write to circumvent it, but the holders will probably object and attempt to use the force of law to prevent it.
Hm, I wonder if Microsoft is paying the people that are demanding web filtering. With a little 'intentional stupidity', they could be tricking the schools.
Really? You sound like a moron to me. Blaiming the wrong people.
This guy didn't simply try to break in, he first asked to be put in jail. Then, instead of raping, stealing, or doing many other criminals things that would have got him safely in jail, he tried to break in.
I say arrest the MORON COPS that refused to put this guy in jail for a week and as a result of the MORON COPS actions, the state of Florida has to pay over $300,000.
I hate criminals and want to convict them. But stop blaming the criminals for the COPS' stupidity.
I addressed this point. If you are so paranoid as to be afraid of the government breaking the law it passed specifically to stop the thing you are afraid of then what makes them think they won't arrest you for violating the Census law
Your paranoia is foolish - way too scared of future changes and not scared enough of CURRENT laws. If you won't trust them to do this information than leave the country NOW, before they come to arrest you for failing to fill out the Census.
I hate the fact that some people are confusing holographs with 3D.
3D means you can view more than 2 dimensions. As humans have only 2 eyes, and we get the real life 3d effect from using both eyes, if you provide different information to each eye, you get 3D that is as "real" as anything in real life. It provides specific detailed information about which item is 'in front' of and 'behind' each item, unlike a photograph where you can do silly tricks like make it look like you are pushing the leaning Tower of Pisa over. With these 3D screens, such cheap special effects no longer work.
Holograms however are MORE than 3D. Witha Hologram you can get up and move your HEAD to get something that is beyond simply 3D, but is instead something I would call "immersive".
Asking for immersive 3D and calling regular 3d fake is like saying those photographs you have are not really 2D because they don't move. Bullcrap. The immersion stuff is far beyond 3D and people should stop trying to claim that 3d = immersive Holograms
The problem is, there is no hard line between different levels of immersive. They go from merely being able to move your head to get a different view, to being able to walk around or even THROUGH an object, similar to a star trek Holo-deck.
But that is way way beyond what any normal person calls 3D. Stereoscopic vision, as per lenticular or this "parrallax" viewing counts as REAL 3D. The information is just as much as you get in real life using both eyes.
It is true that during WWII, the US government abused Census information to detain Japanese.
But the thing about America is that we FIX problems when we realize that we made a mistake.
After World War II, American realized what a horrible thing we did with the Census and we changed the laws.
Now, it is illegal for information from the Census to be given to any other government agency. Specifically:
Immigration is NOT allowed to get the information.
The Internal Revenue Service is NOT allowed to get the information.
FBI and local cops are NOT allowed to get the information.
I myself am always a bit paranoid about giving out information, but the promisses the US government has given are about as extreme as it is possible to get. It is true that governments can ignore their own laws. But if you won't trust the US government after it wewnt that far to fix the problem you are worried about, then you should leave this country.
Because if you are concerned about them rounding you up in the future after they change the laws, then you should be more concerned about them rounding you up TODAY for failing to obey the existing laws
The 'hotness' of all peppers is caused by the presence of one particular chemical: Capsaicin.
The nature of the pepper is irrelevant unless you are eating the raw pepper. Pure CAPSAICIN will always have the maximum possible Scoville value of about 16,000,000.
The idea of the 'special' extra hot is moronic. Anyone can take a regular old jalapeno pepper, distill it's juices down 1,000 time and make something hotter than the Bhut Jolokia.
In fact, law enforcement grade pepper spray is at least 5x worse than even the Bhut Jolokia.
Anyone making a pepper spray looks for the CHEAPEST pepper you can find, on a dollar per Capsaicin basis, not giving a rat's a$$ about hot hot the original pepper was.
He said "For the same price as a high-end dedicated device you can get a tablet that will do everything they can do and far more."
1. Apple is and has NEVER been the low price provider. They will never undercut anyone.
2. Apple clones tend to be cheaper, but they never become killer products. If you want an apple like idea you pay up for the original See the itune.
3. His major belief, that tablet computers will continue to get cheaper is true, BUT SO WILL THE EREADERS. This guy is comparing the newest tablet to a year old technology. Already there is talk of a new chip that will bring the costs of ereaders down to $100 with 12 months. The apple product will continue to be around $500, while their clones may hit $300.
At heart an ereader is a MUCH simpler device than a tablet. They need minimal screens, minimal internet connection speeds, minimal everything. Right now it LOOKS like the ereader is close in price to a netbook becaue you are ignoring the ereader's major benefit - long battery life.
In conclusion, no, Apple will definitely NOT undercut the ereaders. Neither will the apple clones. Ereaders is a product that is here to stay and their price will continue to drop quicker than tablet PCS do.
Let me get this straight. You see the objections that people have when they TALK about chaning healthcare. You see protests, yelling, screaming, false lies about "death panels", and tons of other crap. You see Democrats losing MASSACHUSETS, the home of the Kennedies over the health care bill?
And your take from all this is that Obama will somehow parlay a healthcare change to CONSOLIDATE power over the USA?
God, I hope and pray the terrorists are as foolish and bad at planning as you are. Because only a total moron would expect that a bad health care bill would increase the Democrats power.
If the healthcare gets passed and what you think will happen happens, then Obama will be unemployed in 3 more years. Obama's best chane for more power is if the bill gets passed and people like it.
Of course, you are probably one of those paranoid fools that thought Obama would outlaw guns and ammo. Their paranoia has driven up the prices of ammo more than double, making many guns and ammo out of stock while Obama has done. NOTHING, ABSOLUTLY NOTHING. Not a single bit of their paranoid fears have come true. Why? Because they listened to people like you instead of actually paying attention to what the Democrats were saying.
Your opinion on legality is wrong. this is still a free speech issue. It's called "chilling effect", also called the "libel chill"
The courts have ruled that laws that have a chilling effect do impinge on free speech, and as such laws that allow people to sue someone count as a chilling effect.
Similarly, Lessig could sue the US government, claiming that their laws, guidelines and practices are a chilling effect that affect free speech.
Many of you are talking about free speech having to do with the government, not the corporations. This is completely correct, if you are naive.
It's called subcontracting. Let's assume that the government does not want people to do X. But it knows it can't legally outlaw it. For example, to listen to a political commenter they dislike (say Glenn Beck or John Stewart, depending on who's president.)
So instead they subcontract out the work to corporations. So they give people the right to sue a corporation for huge amounts of money if they insult gays, liberals, etc. / conservatives, religions, etc. (depending on Beck or Stewart)
Indirect enforcement is still enforcement. And that is what this is. This is a corporation doing some that the government wants, in order to avoid fines for failing to do it.
It doesn't matter that government is doing this indirectly. The corporation are removing content out of fear of lawsuits. They are NOT doing it for their personal profit/political views/etc. etc. This makes their actions proxy for the government. Free Speech rules apply.
Why of course they did. I havent read the article yet, so let me put forth what they have to do to truly be conclusive.
So they:
1. Measure ACTUAL criminal activities convictions, as opposed to the bullcrap "aggressive thoughts" or actions that these scientists like to claim are violent instead of merely memories or normal, NECCESSARY assertive thoughts (i.e. they measured violence not merely a mind set that they personally dislike)
2. They compared it with non-violent video game usage of the same type? (i.e. they did not figure out that humans are violent)
3. They compared people that did NOT self-select the violent video games (i.e. they don't confuse cause and effect)
Now, let me read the article and find out that:.
These morons did NO research themselves, did NOT attempt to measure actual criminal activitieas, did NOT compare non-violent video games with and did NOT stop self-selection. All these incompetent fools did was do a study of other studies and found that most of the flawed existing studies confirm their own personal predelictions.
Look, either you trust Toyota or you don't. If you don't trust them, then install the update and sell the car or just junk it if you can't find a buyer.
If you do trust them, then install the update and use the vehicle.
But using a car with a known flaw without fixing it is just plain STUPID.
One easy way to do these things is to ask yourself "What would I tell the jury?" What if you are driving a friend home and you get into an accident. Some insurance company sues someone. What would tell the jury? How do you think they would react to your "I didn't trust the update" crap.
If you don't trust the company, get rid of their product. If you do trust them, obey their instructions on fixing their flawed product.
The big rig had to move the air either way. The only question is, will the cars take advantage of the reduction in air friction from the big rig or not.
Actually, your basic belief is false. Not all larger particles exist only for a fraciton of a second. There are cycles and some elemental numbers that we can not yet created have been theorized to be stable for long time periods.
In addition, we do NOT have a reasonable sample of all 'naturally' occuring particles. We only got what this particular are of the universe happens to have.
As such, it is quite likely that there are places in the galaxy where some of these large, stable elements exist in large quantities.
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Lets assume it goes the other way. Instead of putting the pre-criminals in pre-jail, they are in fact giving them real help. Lets go full out, top of the line, and assume they are paying for a full time psychiatrist. Or maybe signing them up for a high end college-prep boarding school.
You know, the kind of things that liberal rich parents do when their kids get arrested, not the kinds of things that far right, zealous conservative judges do when they catch you desecrating a church.
Given that assumption than all your arguments are crap. The article did NOT go into depth about the preventative methods. You are basically yelling about something you have not even looked at. Stop complaining about IBM's pre-crime prediction algorythm and instead demand more information preventative programs. Maybe they are crappy 'pre-jail' stuff and should be stopped. But they could be real treatment programs that we can't afford to give to all the naughty kids, but we can afford to give to the kids at extreme risk.
Now, te
A debit card is a fool's device. It has all of the disadvantages of a credit card without the free use of a months worth of money. Pay the messily $55 for an American Express card. It has all of the advantages of a credit card without any of the disadvantages. The money is worth it and you can make it up in a years worth of whatever point system you like (I like ONE, because it pays cash quickly.)
1. Be no more than 800 words (2 pages or so)
2. Contain no latin or other legal terms that the average High School Graduate does not understand.
If the contract is longer or uses other words, than non-lawyers can NOT be expected to understand them anymore than I could be expected to understand a page in French.
Yes it won't be perfect, but that's not the question. The question is will voice recognition fail more often than people forget their passwords.
I have to check a password clue book (to figure out which of about 12 different passwords go with which appliction) about once a week. I bet the voice recognition will be better than that.
They really truly want to rent you their products. They want to retain ownership and control, being able to prevent you from puting what you want on it.
But people don't want to rent, not even at really low prices. The Apple costs $500 and most people expect it to last two years, so Apple could have tried to renting it to us at $25/month with a two year contract and an option to renew at $5/month after that. But that would not fly, because people want to own.
So they 'sell' it to us, then try to put ridiculous restraints on it via every which way they can. Bullcrap. If we buy it, we can do whatever we want with it. Including installing Flash crap if we so choose. No one wants to rent your stuff, so stop tyring to get the benefits of renting.
For: School is a) not just for your own benefit, but good for society as a whole. Much of what you learn will never be useful to you. b) What you do learn is almost never useful immediately but instead becomes useful 10 years later. Anyone that studies teaching will tell you that it is best to provide an instant reward. Giving a dog a treat 10 minutes after he learns a trick does nothing, but if you give when he does it, he will learn the trick.
Or to simplify: Capitalism works better than Communism.
You confuse simplicity with easy. No. Wrong. Think fractacls. One simple pattern that is VERY hard to draw. AI without creativity is just pattern matching. Period. Now, it is a very, very very complex pattern matching, and that is NOT easy.
Do you stop carrying books if they move to books on tape? Do libraries refuse to carry fiction? No. Libraries are places where we store and share media, not just written words. Video games are the new media and deserve to be stored. As for copyright protection, the library should have the legal write to circumvent it, but the holders will probably object and attempt to use the force of law to prevent it.
Hm, I wonder if Microsoft is paying the people that are demanding web filtering. With a little 'intentional stupidity', they could be tricking the schools.
Really? You sound like a moron to me. Blaiming the wrong people. This guy didn't simply try to break in, he first asked to be put in jail. Then, instead of raping, stealing, or doing many other criminals things that would have got him safely in jail, he tried to break in. I say arrest the MORON COPS that refused to put this guy in jail for a week and as a result of the MORON COPS actions, the state of Florida has to pay over $300,000. I hate criminals and want to convict them. But stop blaming the criminals for the COPS' stupidity.
If it's not the Privacy ACt, it might be Title 13,
I think it is The Privacy Act of 1970, but am not positive.
Your paranoia is foolish - way too scared of future changes and not scared enough of CURRENT laws. If you won't trust them to do this information than leave the country NOW, before they come to arrest you for failing to fill out the Census.
3D means you can view more than 2 dimensions. As humans have only 2 eyes, and we get the real life 3d effect from using both eyes, if you provide different information to each eye, you get 3D that is as "real" as anything in real life. It provides specific detailed information about which item is 'in front' of and 'behind' each item, unlike a photograph where you can do silly tricks like make it look like you are pushing the leaning Tower of Pisa over. With these 3D screens, such cheap special effects no longer work.
Holograms however are MORE than 3D. Witha Hologram you can get up and move your HEAD to get something that is beyond simply 3D, but is instead something I would call "immersive".
Asking for immersive 3D and calling regular 3d fake is like saying those photographs you have are not really 2D because they don't move. Bullcrap. The immersion stuff is far beyond 3D and people should stop trying to claim that 3d = immersive Holograms
The problem is, there is no hard line between different levels of immersive. They go from merely being able to move your head to get a different view, to being able to walk around or even THROUGH an object, similar to a star trek Holo-deck.
But that is way way beyond what any normal person calls 3D. Stereoscopic vision, as per lenticular or this "parrallax" viewing counts as REAL 3D. The information is just as much as you get in real life using both eyes.
But the thing about America is that we FIX problems when we realize that we made a mistake.
After World War II, American realized what a horrible thing we did with the Census and we changed the laws.
Now, it is illegal for information from the Census to be given to any other government agency. Specifically:
Immigration is NOT allowed to get the information.
The Internal Revenue Service is NOT allowed to get the information.
FBI and local cops are NOT allowed to get the information.
I myself am always a bit paranoid about giving out information, but the promisses the US government has given are about as extreme as it is possible to get. It is true that governments can ignore their own laws. But if you won't trust the US government after it wewnt that far to fix the problem you are worried about, then you should leave this country.
Because if you are concerned about them rounding you up in the future after they change the laws, then you should be more concerned about them rounding you up TODAY for failing to obey the existing laws
The nature of the pepper is irrelevant unless you are eating the raw pepper. Pure CAPSAICIN will always have the maximum possible Scoville value of about 16,000,000.
The idea of the 'special' extra hot is moronic. Anyone can take a regular old jalapeno pepper, distill it's juices down 1,000 time and make something hotter than the Bhut Jolokia.
In fact, law enforcement grade pepper spray is at least 5x worse than even the Bhut Jolokia.
Anyone making a pepper spray looks for the CHEAPEST pepper you can find, on a dollar per Capsaicin basis, not giving a rat's a$$ about hot hot the original pepper was.
1. Apple is and has NEVER been the low price provider. They will never undercut anyone.
2. Apple clones tend to be cheaper, but they never become killer products. If you want an apple like idea you pay up for the original See the itune.
3. His major belief, that tablet computers will continue to get cheaper is true, BUT SO WILL THE EREADERS. This guy is comparing the newest tablet to a year old technology. Already there is talk of a new chip that will bring the costs of ereaders down to $100 with 12 months. The apple product will continue to be around $500, while their clones may hit $300.
At heart an ereader is a MUCH simpler device than a tablet. They need minimal screens, minimal internet connection speeds, minimal everything. Right now it LOOKS like the ereader is close in price to a netbook becaue you are ignoring the ereader's major benefit - long battery life.
In conclusion, no, Apple will definitely NOT undercut the ereaders. Neither will the apple clones. Ereaders is a product that is here to stay and their price will continue to drop quicker than tablet PCS do.
And your take from all this is that Obama will somehow parlay a healthcare change to CONSOLIDATE power over the USA?
God, I hope and pray the terrorists are as foolish and bad at planning as you are. Because only a total moron would expect that a bad health care bill would increase the Democrats power.
If the healthcare gets passed and what you think will happen happens, then Obama will be unemployed in 3 more years. Obama's best chane for more power is if the bill gets passed and people like it.
Of course, you are probably one of those paranoid fools that thought Obama would outlaw guns and ammo. Their paranoia has driven up the prices of ammo more than double, making many guns and ammo out of stock while Obama has done. NOTHING, ABSOLUTLY NOTHING. Not a single bit of their paranoid fears have come true. Why? Because they listened to people like you instead of actually paying attention to what the Democrats were saying.
Your opinion on legality is wrong. this is still a free speech issue. It's called "chilling effect", also called the "libel chill" The courts have ruled that laws that have a chilling effect do impinge on free speech, and as such laws that allow people to sue someone count as a chilling effect. Similarly, Lessig could sue the US government, claiming that their laws, guidelines and practices are a chilling effect that affect free speech.
It's called subcontracting. Let's assume that the government does not want people to do X. But it knows it can't legally outlaw it. For example, to listen to a political commenter they dislike (say Glenn Beck or John Stewart, depending on who's president.)
So instead they subcontract out the work to corporations. So they give people the right to sue a corporation for huge amounts of money if they insult gays, liberals, etc. / conservatives, religions, etc. (depending on Beck or Stewart)
Indirect enforcement is still enforcement. And that is what this is. This is a corporation doing some that the government wants, in order to avoid fines for failing to do it.
It doesn't matter that government is doing this indirectly. The corporation are removing content out of fear of lawsuits. They are NOT doing it for their personal profit/political views/etc. etc. This makes their actions proxy for the government. Free Speech rules apply.
1. Measure ACTUAL criminal activities convictions, as opposed to the bullcrap "aggressive thoughts" or actions that these scientists like to claim are violent instead of merely memories or normal, NECCESSARY assertive thoughts (i.e. they measured violence not merely a mind set that they personally dislike)
2. They compared it with non-violent video game usage of the same type? (i.e. they did not figure out that humans are violent)
3. They compared people that did NOT self-select the violent video games (i.e. they don't confuse cause and effect)
Now, let me read the article and find out that:. These morons did NO research themselves, did NOT attempt to measure actual criminal activitieas, did NOT compare non-violent video games with and did NOT stop self-selection. All these incompetent fools did was do a study of other studies and found that most of the flawed existing studies confirm their own personal predelictions.
Why they must deeply desire to understand what water does, right? Unless of course they know their 'science' is bogus.
If you do trust them, then install the update and use the vehicle.
But using a car with a known flaw without fixing it is just plain STUPID.
One easy way to do these things is to ask yourself "What would I tell the jury?" What if you are driving a friend home and you get into an accident. Some insurance company sues someone. What would tell the jury? How do you think they would react to your "I didn't trust the update" crap.
If you don't trust the company, get rid of their product. If you do trust them, obey their instructions on fixing their flawed product.
The big rig had to move the air either way. The only question is, will the cars take advantage of the reduction in air friction from the big rig or not.
Actually, your basic belief is false. Not all larger particles exist only for a fraciton of a second. There are cycles and some elemental numbers that we can not yet created have been theorized to be stable for long time periods. In addition, we do NOT have a reasonable sample of all 'naturally' occuring particles. We only got what this particular are of the universe happens to have. As such, it is quite likely that there are places in the galaxy where some of these large, stable elements exist in large quantities.