You never need these images as evidence. The images are used to justify a search which produces images. The searches never need justification, the searches are simply targeted using the machines due to limited resources.
Assuming you could hire enough guards to search every passenger without substantial delay for less than the cost of one of these machines, that'd be more effective.
Totally aside in answer to the 'what was lost' question, the USA lost a lot of respect. Americans may or may not care, but its true. Do you want your country to stand for freedom and democracy with due process or for totalitarianism and heavy-handed warmongering?
I'd agree with the above sentiment if the following weren't true:
These are often people who were defending their own homeland from an invading force.
I know, a lot of enemy combatants were and are outsiders, but even so often neighbours.
If the USA invaded Canada and I fought back without a uniform because I'm not a member of the military, would I also be an unarmed combatant? If a bunch of civilian sympathizers from *random country* showed up to help defend my home and land and neighbours, would they be too?
The USA declared war on an ideal not a country, and those with that ideal are fighting back. As such, they have no need to be under a flag nor to wear a uniform, as the war is against people with a specific thought system. Something I still have a very hard time with even though I agree with the concept.
War against fundamentalist Muslims who may or may not be terrorists (since non-terrorist sympathizer Muslims may in fact fight back as well) is the kind of thing I thought was restricted to silly post-apocalyptic movies, because the United States would never declare war on a thought system. Freedom and all that.
No, that's absurd. A government consisting only of a king can be just as corrupt as a government with a million workers. One is just harder to audit than the other.
News flash: Copyright existed, and should exist, to allow an individual to profit from their creation. It has not a damned thing to do with producing useful art. The production of useful art is a result of the desire to PROFIT.
News flash: you're an uninformed troll who's never read what Copyright exists for.
Copyright is designed to create a temporary monetary gain to encourage the creation of works for the greater good in the public domain.
Copyright is not an implicit human right, its an artificial incentive to allow artists to gain renumeration for their efforts for a limited time. Go do a bit of public domain reading yourself. From copyright.gov:
August 18, 1787 James Madison submitted to the framers of the Constitution a provision “to secure to literary authors their copyrights for a limited time.”
From the first days of Jazz to Nine Inch Nails, every now and then true creativity shines and something very new appears on the scene. While music and other art tends to evolve slowly, sometimes a big side-step happens and things change a lot.
Your attempt at insight aside, the limited time span of Copyright is designed to increase the availability of the arts to everyone in the long run by creating a temporary monopoly on a work for profit to be gained so as to encourage the creation of works that will end up in the public domain eventually.
The goal is to have all of this creativity available to everyone for free, that's the destiny of the work. The temporary profiteering is allowed to encourage creativity from people who are monetarily driven.
Libraries bypass this system by actually purchasing works and then making them available free, entirely bypassing the intent of Copyright to our benefit.
So make a curated apps store for idiots. Android allows such a thing. Alternative store, replace the market icon with your own, link only to apps you approve of and sell access to your store to users who don't trust themselves.
In fact, I'm surprised McAfee and Norton haven't done this already.
While we're at it, cars should all be made with governors to limit speed to under 20km/h and have big rings of styrofoam all around them so that nobody ever gets hurt from incompetence with those either.
For example in my case, I use an Android phone running K-9 mail to connect to both my personal and work E-mail accounts. Both are configured as IMAP with SSL connections. The result is that my E-mail is essentially invisible to the carrier and Rogers Wireless (in my case) is just responsible for making that data get to me at all.
Blue Jeans Cable is an excellent source of HDMI cables, and information. That link will actually lead to their slightly less than reverant overview on HDMI which is quite informative.
I do not work for or have any association with the above except that they sent me excellent cables as ordered for a good price and had excellent pre-sales customer service via E-mail.
How temperature and pressure relate to the boiling point of water is much more well understood than long term climate changes.
I haven't seen any math or science from the climate people to justify their predictions. Why? Because its circumstantial and not causal.
Wake me up when we get causal data. Until then, they're probably going to do as well with their graphs as the average stock market prediction algorithm. It'll follow the curve correctly for a while and then chaos kicks in and throws a wrench in the works.
Summary: we think we know where we're at, but not why. We suspect where it may lead, but can't actually do better than an educated guess with the tools and knowledge we have.
I still have yet to understand why people download ringtone and wallpaper apps on Android. I can use any MP3/WAV/etc. music for ringtones and any JPG/etc. image for backgrounds. I figure anyone who installed either is so completely uninformed about their device they're just begging to get malware of some form.
Up here in Ontario Canada, our local school gives out the dumbest grades to children. I swear they stole the grading system from Harry Potter's O.W.L. system -- basically they get A, B, C letter grades for certain aspects of the year, and then an "excellent / good / satisfactory / needs improvement" grade for other aspects of the course work (sample report card).
The unnecessary complexity becomes apparent when guides are made to help parents understand the grade system.
On top of this, the letter grading has been made substantially tougher (something I have no problem with). To quote:
The Ontario Ministry of Education changed its grading system several years ago in response to two different factors: to reduce disparity in reporting standards; and to reflect the academic achievement of the vast majority of Ontario students in the public education system. That's right, the vast majority of bright, capable students in the Ontario public elementary system are not straight-A achievers, but rather straight-B's.
Actually, most 120Hz displays are being fed 60Hz signals and either generating intermediate frames algorithmically or displaying the same frames back to back. Look up "MotionFlow" as one such technology.
The result might 'look' like 120p but the signal over the wire was still 60p.
That said, 60p 3D still requires true 120p transmission speeds.
Electronic cables have to be able to withstand the heat generated by the electrical resistance in the wires. Optical cables have almost no such problem.
To be honest, I'd rather have a display interface that understood an arbitrary N channels of video, much like current audio standards (dts, DD, etc).
A game could feed two screens worth of data down a high bandwidth HDMI cable at 60Hz for use as a 3D video game and the receiver could either be a TV that flipped back and forth between the feeds at 120 or 240Hz, or it could be a pair of projectors with an HDMI pass-through port each projecting one eye's display simultaneously for use with polarized lenses.
The same HDMI cable could be fed three screens worth of data for a wider field of view, or two screens worth for a multiplayer game, leaving it up to the TV to render side by side or above and below, or picture-in-picture.
Future-proof extensible specifications would be nice. *sigh*
USB and HDMI have to be short precisely because they're wire interfaces. With optical, we'd be able to have HDMI connections hundreds of feet long presumably.
There are already HDMIopticalHDMI connectors available, much like the old parallel cable extenders, but having the optical protocol in place would eliminate the extra adapters.
PS you don't understand why SATA replaced PATA or SAS replaced LVD SCSI either, do you?
Effectiveness of the Copyright protection system in question is not part of the DMCA's provisions. Circumventing a password-protected ZIP file could be held against you if the Copyright holder claimed it was an anti-circumvention measure.
If I have a working server that already hosts PDF content, why would I want to virtualize this one when I could integrate its features into the existing one?
That said, the one server per service concept is a mentality I do not subscribe to.
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That's what I was thinking.
I'm quite certain I don't have the right to refuse to enter the court in many circumstances.
For those whose minds are narrow, remember that this applies equally to innocent witnesses of crime as well as suspects and criminals.
Lets see anyone justify the storage of a body scan of a woman entering the court to testify against a rapist.
You never need these images as evidence. The images are used to justify a search which produces images. The searches never need justification, the searches are simply targeted using the machines due to limited resources.
Assuming you could hire enough guards to search every passenger without substantial delay for less than the cost of one of these machines, that'd be more effective.
The images do not need to be stored. Period.
Try these:
Totally aside in answer to the 'what was lost' question, the USA lost a lot of respect. Americans may or may not care, but its true. Do you want your country to stand for freedom and democracy with due process or for totalitarianism and heavy-handed warmongering?
I'd agree with the above sentiment if the following weren't true:
These are often people who were defending their own homeland from an invading force.
I know, a lot of enemy combatants were and are outsiders, but even so often neighbours.
If the USA invaded Canada and I fought back without a uniform because I'm not a member of the military, would I also be an unarmed combatant? If a bunch of civilian sympathizers from *random country* showed up to help defend my home and land and neighbours, would they be too?
The USA declared war on an ideal not a country, and those with that ideal are fighting back. As such, they have no need to be under a flag nor to wear a uniform, as the war is against people with a specific thought system. Something I still have a very hard time with even though I agree with the concept.
War against fundamentalist Muslims who may or may not be terrorists (since non-terrorist sympathizer Muslims may in fact fight back as well) is the kind of thing I thought was restricted to silly post-apocalyptic movies, because the United States would never declare war on a thought system. Freedom and all that.
No, that's absurd. A government consisting only of a king can be just as corrupt as a government with a million workers. One is just harder to audit than the other.
Using unique string patterns in your code that can be easily searched for helps too ... not that I've ever done such a thing of course.
Somehow I've managed to miss that one despite visiting Kingston several times. I'll have to make it a stop next time I'm there.
News flash: you're an uninformed troll who's never read what Copyright exists for.
Copyright is designed to create a temporary monetary gain to encourage the creation of works for the greater good in the public domain.
Copyright is not an implicit human right, its an artificial incentive to allow artists to gain renumeration for their efforts for a limited time. Go do a bit of public domain reading yourself. From copyright.gov:
Obviously you don't listen to enough music.
From the first days of Jazz to Nine Inch Nails, every now and then true creativity shines and something very new appears on the scene. While music and other art tends to evolve slowly, sometimes a big side-step happens and things change a lot.
Your attempt at insight aside, the limited time span of Copyright is designed to increase the availability of the arts to everyone in the long run by creating a temporary monopoly on a work for profit to be gained so as to encourage the creation of works that will end up in the public domain eventually.
The goal is to have all of this creativity available to everyone for free, that's the destiny of the work. The temporary profiteering is allowed to encourage creativity from people who are monetarily driven.
Libraries bypass this system by actually purchasing works and then making them available free, entirely bypassing the intent of Copyright to our benefit.
I should've been less generic. I meant apps that simply install a series of wallpaper selections, not apps that have real functionality.
For that matter, I used Locale for quite a while while it was in beta and had it set to change my wallpaper to a darker theme at night.
So make a curated apps store for idiots. Android allows such a thing. Alternative store, replace the market icon with your own, link only to apps you approve of and sell access to your store to users who don't trust themselves.
In fact, I'm surprised McAfee and Norton haven't done this already.
While we're at it, cars should all be made with governors to limit speed to under 20km/h and have big rings of styrofoam all around them so that nobody ever gets hurt from incompetence with those either.
For example in my case, I use an Android phone running K-9 mail to connect to both my personal and work E-mail accounts. Both are configured as IMAP with SSL connections. The result is that my E-mail is essentially invisible to the carrier and Rogers Wireless (in my case) is just responsible for making that data get to me at all.
Unfortunately the rest of those managers don't understand the Peter Principle and often just aren't well educated in business management.
Blue Jeans Cable is an excellent source of HDMI cables, and information. That link will actually lead to their slightly less than reverant overview on HDMI which is quite informative.
For less information and more cabling, go here instead.
I do not work for or have any association with the above except that they sent me excellent cables as ordered for a good price and had excellent pre-sales customer service via E-mail.
How temperature and pressure relate to the boiling point of water is much more well understood than long term climate changes.
I haven't seen any math or science from the climate people to justify their predictions. Why? Because its circumstantial and not causal.
Wake me up when we get causal data. Until then, they're probably going to do as well with their graphs as the average stock market prediction algorithm. It'll follow the curve correctly for a while and then chaos kicks in and throws a wrench in the works.
Summary: we think we know where we're at, but not why. We suspect where it may lead, but can't actually do better than an educated guess with the tools and knowledge we have.
I still have yet to understand why people download ringtone and wallpaper apps on Android. I can use any MP3/WAV/etc. music for ringtones and any JPG/etc. image for backgrounds. I figure anyone who installed either is so completely uninformed about their device they're just begging to get malware of some form.
True in some jurisdictions and not in others. For example, those FM transmitters for iPods et al are illegal in some places.
Up here in Ontario Canada, our local school gives out the dumbest grades to children. I swear they stole the grading system from Harry Potter's O.W.L. system -- basically they get A, B, C letter grades for certain aspects of the year, and then an "excellent / good / satisfactory / needs improvement" grade for other aspects of the course work (sample report card).
The unnecessary complexity becomes apparent when guides are made to help parents understand the grade system.
On top of this, the letter grading has been made substantially tougher (something I have no problem with). To quote:
Actually, most 120Hz displays are being fed 60Hz signals and either generating intermediate frames algorithmically or displaying the same frames back to back. Look up "MotionFlow" as one such technology.
The result might 'look' like 120p but the signal over the wire was still 60p.
That said, 60p 3D still requires true 120p transmission speeds.
Don't forget the lack of heat in the cable.
Electronic cables have to be able to withstand the heat generated by the electrical resistance in the wires. Optical cables have almost no such problem.
To be honest, I'd rather have a display interface that understood an arbitrary N channels of video, much like current audio standards (dts, DD, etc).
A game could feed two screens worth of data down a high bandwidth HDMI cable at 60Hz for use as a 3D video game and the receiver could either be a TV that flipped back and forth between the feeds at 120 or 240Hz, or it could be a pair of projectors with an HDMI pass-through port each projecting one eye's display simultaneously for use with polarized lenses.
The same HDMI cable could be fed three screens worth of data for a wider field of view, or two screens worth for a multiplayer game, leaving it up to the TV to render side by side or above and below, or picture-in-picture.
Future-proof extensible specifications would be nice. *sigh*
USB and HDMI have to be short precisely because they're wire interfaces. With optical, we'd be able to have HDMI connections hundreds of feet long presumably.
There are already HDMIopticalHDMI connectors available, much like the old parallel cable extenders, but having the optical protocol in place would eliminate the extra adapters.
PS you don't understand why SATA replaced PATA or SAS replaced LVD SCSI either, do you?
Effectiveness of the Copyright protection system in question is not part of the DMCA's provisions. Circumventing a password-protected ZIP file could be held against you if the Copyright holder claimed it was an anti-circumvention measure.
If I have a working server that already hosts PDF content, why would I want to virtualize this one when I could integrate its features into the existing one?
That said, the one server per service concept is a mentality I do not subscribe to.