The government supports the government's actions? Shocking. I didn't know I was supposed to suppress my notions of what is right and what is wrong in favor of a few federal judges. Thanks for clarifying that for me.
Ask most Deaf people if they think they're "vulnerable" and you'll get a pretty strong "No" (or a shake of a head with the first two fingers pinched together with the thumb).
You're part of the problem, not part of the solution. You could try instead to ask politely to not record you, you know. But you'd rather reach for violence first. I hope you're just playing internet tough guy here, because with your current plan you could very well wind up in jail for assault or even dead if you picked an especially wrong glasshole to mess with. If you go looking for trouble, chances are you'll find it. If you're in public, you have NO reasonable expectation to not be photographed, filmed, or otherwise recorded.
I'm on the road and can't spend the time to dig up citations at the moment. As I said, it's arguable, but some historians have suggested that privately he didn't believe in God at all, and church was largely a social thing for him. I personally don't think he was an atheist, but depending on the working definition of Christian used, he wasn't Christian either. The one generally I go by is any religion that accepts the notion of Jesus' divinity is Christian (as opposed to a religion that derived from Christian thought), and by that standard Taft almost certainly wasn't Christian. Unitarianism is a complex beast, though, and trying to pigeonhole Taft is pretty much doomed to failure.
Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone now-a-days is trying very hard to come up with new methodologies and paradigms and web 6.5isms, so they can get their 5 minutes in the lime light?
Hey! You're violating my business process patent!;-)
You had one person to provide IT infrastructure for a company that wanted to get to 5 minutes per year of downtime? People like that have a tenuous grasp of reality at best. What kept you there almost 6 years?
DGPS can get 10cm resolution if done right, and DGPS coverage is not a problem for most residences in the US and certainly not in the areas I'm sure Amazon will pilot (no pun intended) this system. Vision systems are getting more sophisticated and can probably find the front door reliably with sufficient accuracy once on the scene. I'm curious to know how it will handle apartments, though.
This. I'm a huge data model bigot. I believe that even if your code is dodgy, if your data model is good, you can overcome the dodgy code. If your data model is a clusterfuck, though, all the hero programming in the world isn't going to make it work right.
To use our service, please install our "accelerator" package that also adds our certificate to your phone. Boom. I can now proxy SSL. I wouldn't install such a thing, you probably wouldn't do it either, most people here on/. wouldn't do it, but how many "normals" would, with the promise of "Free Wifi at thousands of locations!" not understanding that their mobile device's whole security model is now compromised?
I read that all and in my mind filled in the words: "Still better than Yahoo web mail." Like someone else said here, instead of mandating the employees switch, they might want to spend a little time finding out why their employees won't, because unlike her Yahoo minions, Mayer can't tell anyone else what email client to use.
I'd be happy if when I did Google just did searches with the + in front of a keyword it would still include only pages that had that word on it. Many of my searches over the last 2 years especially have given me tons of pages that do NOT have the word I have a + in front of. Hey Google, maybe I went to the trouble to put that + in because that word was important?
Fortunately where I live the intersections generally afford pretty wide visibility, and the lights have long yellows and a good 2-3 second delay before the other side gets the green. Only the most inattentive could miss a red light, and my driving style is an active one, so I am looking for red light runners on approach.
Why are you keeping score?
That's a fair question. I can be competitive on stupid shit sometimes. It's one of my less favorable personal attributes.
I can't speak for him, but late night in my town, I pretty much drive the speed limit (generally 45) and if there's a red light about a quarter mile off, I take my foot off the accelerator and coast. If there's someone behind me they almost always get impatient, roar past me to come to a stop at the red light. By the time I get to the intersection, I'm doing about 25-30 and the light turns green and I pass the impatient guy who is stopped or at best doing 10 miles an hour. I have lathered, rinsed, and repeated this with some drivers 3 and 4 times. I use less gas and brake pad, have a lower peak speed (if they're speeding, they'll sometimes pass me again so they can sit longer at the next red light) but have a higher average speed and that's the number that gets you where you're going sooner.
If that makes me an asshole, then I'm an asshole and proud of it. I'm in the rightmost lane for a reason.
I don't disagree, but rights are pretty much all about beliefs, and if the guys with the guns don't think you have a right you think you do, then you don't really have that right, and your beliefs don't really have any claim on them.
It doesn't say it directly, but one of the big reasons that some of the people responsible for the constitution didn't want the Bill of Rights was for that reason: They didn't want those to be interpreted as the only rights people had. To placate that argument is why the 9th amendment exists. It turns out that those people were exactly right because many make the assumption those are your only rights, even WITH the 9th amendment in place.
Courts have repeatedly held that there is a de facto right to some level of privacy, regardless of its lack of constitutional enumeration, in part because it's highly implied by several of the amendments, especially the 4th.
I'm going to commit a slashdot crime here, but here it goes: on my Android phone, I have installed Bing. Hold on a minute! I still use Google for searching and everything else. Google Now rocks! It's changed the way I use my phone and organize my data.
But Google Maps on Android is shit for searching. I search for a store that I know is around close somewhere, and Google maps shows me just one that's 30 miles away. Bing shows me all of them, including the one that's a mile away.
Which is stupid, because polygraphs are pretty much theater and have very little scientific support. Even in someone untrained in beating them, they are far from perfect. If you know a few countermeasures they are worse than useless. Anyone who bases their measure of trustworthiness on the polygraph has not a single clue what trustworthiness is, and frankly deserve to get burned time and time again for it until they get a clue.
The Note 3, actually. You know, that phone that got released just last month? Talk about limiting your market.
I have a Note 2, and it wasn't compatible (yet). That, plus the terrible reviews and the relative expense (you can get some pretty nice classic watches for 300 bucks) kept me away.
I heard this from mainframe and midrange people 20+ years ago. I'll bet they heard it in the 60s and 70s from people who said their businesses ran on paper, not machines. Since mainframes and paper are still around and doing fine, you're half-right, but those people missed the boat on the revolutions of their time, dismissing them as "toys" and fads just as you have dismissed tablets and smartphones. Those toys are more powerful than the desktops of 10 and in some cases just 5 years ago.
I agree that nothing beats the PC for heads-down creation and data manipulation, but it's not due to the underpowered nature of these devices, but in the human/machine interface. Foldable, wearable or projection displays, better virtual keyboards, and/or advanced 3D gesture sensor systems or something else better minds that mine will think of are what will blur the lines between PCs and portable devices in the future, the same way faster and higher capacity ICs and disk drives blurred those lines between PCs, workstations, and big iron over the last two decades.
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The government supports the government's actions? Shocking. I didn't know I was supposed to suppress my notions of what is right and what is wrong in favor of a few federal judges. Thanks for clarifying that for me.
Ask most Deaf people if they think they're "vulnerable" and you'll get a pretty strong "No" (or a shake of a head with the first two fingers pinched together with the thumb).
YMMV, of course.
Hmmm. 46 here. And apparently still too fast for Slashdot who tells me to "Slow down, cowboy!"
You're part of the problem, not part of the solution. You could try instead to ask politely to not record you, you know. But you'd rather reach for violence first. I hope you're just playing internet tough guy here, because with your current plan you could very well wind up in jail for assault or even dead if you picked an especially wrong glasshole to mess with. If you go looking for trouble, chances are you'll find it. If you're in public, you have NO reasonable expectation to not be photographed, filmed, or otherwise recorded.
Still waiting for the explanation where one's feelings towards something isn't valid unless it fits into jurisprudence, but okay.
I'm on the road and can't spend the time to dig up citations at the moment. As I said, it's arguable, but some historians have suggested that privately he didn't believe in God at all, and church was largely a social thing for him. I personally don't think he was an atheist, but depending on the working definition of Christian used, he wasn't Christian either. The one generally I go by is any religion that accepts the notion of Jesus' divinity is Christian (as opposed to a religion that derived from Christian thought), and by that standard Taft almost certainly wasn't Christian. Unitarianism is a complex beast, though, and trying to pigeonhole Taft is pretty much doomed to failure.
Arguably, in 1909.
Hey! You're violating my business process patent! ;-)
That's a good story. Sometimes there are good reasons to put up with a mess. Glad to see it was for something worthwhile.
You had one person to provide IT infrastructure for a company that wanted to get to 5 minutes per year of downtime? People like that have a tenuous grasp of reality at best. What kept you there almost 6 years?
DGPS can get 10cm resolution if done right, and DGPS coverage is not a problem for most residences in the US and certainly not in the areas I'm sure Amazon will pilot (no pun intended) this system. Vision systems are getting more sophisticated and can probably find the front door reliably with sufficient accuracy once on the scene. I'm curious to know how it will handle apartments, though.
This. I'm a huge data model bigot. I believe that even if your code is dodgy, if your data model is good, you can overcome the dodgy code. If your data model is a clusterfuck, though, all the hero programming in the world isn't going to make it work right.
To use our service, please install our "accelerator" package that also adds our certificate to your phone. Boom. I can now proxy SSL. I wouldn't install such a thing, you probably wouldn't do it either, most people here on /. wouldn't do it, but how many "normals" would, with the promise of "Free Wifi at thousands of locations!" not understanding that their mobile device's whole security model is now compromised?
I read that all and in my mind filled in the words: "Still better than Yahoo web mail." Like someone else said here, instead of mandating the employees switch, they might want to spend a little time finding out why their employees won't, because unlike her Yahoo minions, Mayer can't tell anyone else what email client to use.
I'd be happy if when I did Google just did searches with the + in front of a keyword it would still include only pages that had that word on it. Many of my searches over the last 2 years especially have given me tons of pages that do NOT have the word I have a + in front of. Hey Google, maybe I went to the trouble to put that + in because that word was important?
Fortunately where I live the intersections generally afford pretty wide visibility, and the lights have long yellows and a good 2-3 second delay before the other side gets the green. Only the most inattentive could miss a red light, and my driving style is an active one, so I am looking for red light runners on approach.
That's a fair question. I can be competitive on stupid shit sometimes. It's one of my less favorable personal attributes.
I can't speak for him, but late night in my town, I pretty much drive the speed limit (generally 45) and if there's a red light about a quarter mile off, I take my foot off the accelerator and coast. If there's someone behind me they almost always get impatient, roar past me to come to a stop at the red light. By the time I get to the intersection, I'm doing about 25-30 and the light turns green and I pass the impatient guy who is stopped or at best doing 10 miles an hour. I have lathered, rinsed, and repeated this with some drivers 3 and 4 times. I use less gas and brake pad, have a lower peak speed (if they're speeding, they'll sometimes pass me again so they can sit longer at the next red light) but have a higher average speed and that's the number that gets you where you're going sooner.
If that makes me an asshole, then I'm an asshole and proud of it. I'm in the rightmost lane for a reason.
Hmmmm.
I don't disagree, but rights are pretty much all about beliefs, and if the guys with the guns don't think you have a right you think you do, then you don't really have that right, and your beliefs don't really have any claim on them.
It doesn't say it directly, but one of the big reasons that some of the people responsible for the constitution didn't want the Bill of Rights was for that reason: They didn't want those to be interpreted as the only rights people had. To placate that argument is why the 9th amendment exists. It turns out that those people were exactly right because many make the assumption those are your only rights, even WITH the 9th amendment in place.
Courts have repeatedly held that there is a de facto right to some level of privacy, regardless of its lack of constitutional enumeration, in part because it's highly implied by several of the amendments, especially the 4th.
I'm going to commit a slashdot crime here, but here it goes: on my Android phone, I have installed Bing. Hold on a minute! I still use Google for searching and everything else. Google Now rocks! It's changed the way I use my phone and organize my data.
But Google Maps on Android is shit for searching. I search for a store that I know is around close somewhere, and Google maps shows me just one that's 30 miles away. Bing shows me all of them, including the one that's a mile away.
Which is stupid, because polygraphs are pretty much theater and have very little scientific support. Even in someone untrained in beating them, they are far from perfect. If you know a few countermeasures they are worse than useless. Anyone who bases their measure of trustworthiness on the polygraph has not a single clue what trustworthiness is, and frankly deserve to get burned time and time again for it until they get a clue.
I've been called "dull" by an English guy named "Willard"? The very idea of an English guy named Willard makes me want to take a nap.
The Note 3, actually. You know, that phone that got released just last month? Talk about limiting your market.
I have a Note 2, and it wasn't compatible (yet). That, plus the terrible reviews and the relative expense (you can get some pretty nice classic watches for 300 bucks) kept me away.
I heard this from mainframe and midrange people 20+ years ago. I'll bet they heard it in the 60s and 70s from people who said their businesses ran on paper, not machines. Since mainframes and paper are still around and doing fine, you're half-right, but those people missed the boat on the revolutions of their time, dismissing them as "toys" and fads just as you have dismissed tablets and smartphones. Those toys are more powerful than the desktops of 10 and in some cases just 5 years ago.
I agree that nothing beats the PC for heads-down creation and data manipulation, but it's not due to the underpowered nature of these devices, but in the human/machine interface. Foldable, wearable or projection displays, better virtual keyboards, and/or advanced 3D gesture sensor systems or something else better minds that mine will think of are what will blur the lines between PCs and portable devices in the future, the same way faster and higher capacity ICs and disk drives blurred those lines between PCs, workstations, and big iron over the last two decades.