Doesn't matter. This gives police license to run dragnets for DNA. They can't solve a case but have DNA and a vague description, they will simply "arrest" anyone and everyone who is a close match to the description on trumped up charges that will be dropped after they get their DNA.
That leaves them open for false arrest charges, which would be pretty easy to prove if it happened on the scale you seem to imply, and each such arrest opens them up for perjury charge if they get a warrant. Especially if they have to let you go because the DNA exonerates you. This ruling does not make arrest simply to get DNA legal, any more than Arrest simply to get fingerprints is legal.
For those few cases where they would otherwise follow a person around to get a sample of their DNA because they have other evidence not yet sufficient for a warrant, it does tend to suggest that they might be tempted to arrest them for some trivial issue. Still I don't see DNA only arrests on a pretense happening all that often without significant other evidence.
Contrary to what you see on TV it still takes days/weeks to get DNA processed in most states due to the backlog. The police aren't going to start wholesale DNA dragnets until results are cheaper and quicker to obtain.
The only good news -- I'm glad they are actually bothering to build a data center. Too many companies are reliant on "the cloud".
What's wrong with the cloud? A well designed cloud won't be knocked out by any one storm or maybe any 5 storms, floods, water main breaks, hurriquakes, or lightning.
Police were pursuing a vehicle for an unnamed offense which ran several red lights before striking Reisse's vehicle at an intersection. The cynic in me says the offense wasn't extremely grievous if it has thus far gone unnamed: these testosterone-fueled police chases kill far too many innocents.
The cynic in you is dead wrong.
Quote: the link in TFA:
Authorities say the incident began when officers saw two vehicles full of people involved in some type of criminal activity in the 1000 block of Rosewood Court Thursday. When officers went to investigate, there was a physical altercation between police and 26-year-old Gerardo Diego Ayala that ended with a fatal officer-involved shooting. Police say a gun was located at the scene.
Also
Police say all are gang members on probation, with outstanding warrants for their arrest.
Let the adults handle the engineering and science, and you keep wringing your hands and whining about dollars wasted and never trying anything new. With your attitude we would never have gotten to space in the first place.
ZG Flights last maybe 90 seconds, at which point gravity comes back and destroys the entire situation inside the machine.
You can't tell if your machine will operate in space by testing if for 1000 hours by testing 90 seconds at at time. Even the smallest printed item takes longer than 90 seconds to print.
Pick up a small (commercial unit) drive over to the next launch site and toss it into the cargo. The supply vehicles were going there anyway. You don't pay for the whole launch when the thing is small enough to fit on your TV tray.
On the other hand, radiated heat may be all you need if you can tune your materials well enough. If you can manage to keep your part exposed to deep space (not illuminated by sunlight), the radiation efficiency metrics are fairly well defined.
Media management might be a problem, but even that might not be so bad if it could be engineered to clump.
And if so, you could probably engineer some really large printers to print in free space (not enclosed in the ISS). If you can manage the materials well enough you could print entire structures in space that you couldn't fabricate on earth due to gravity (like large lattice structures) or, complete living modules, bigger than any lift vehicle etc. You'd have to lay it down layer by layer with a "traveling depositor" of some sort.
You're missing the point entirely. You don't even know if a 3D printer can work without gravity. You need to test if you can even get the 3D printer to print anything in zero gravity first before you potentially waste millions of dollars sending a it to the ISS.
Waste millions?
Employing engineers here on earth to develop technology and iron out the bugs, and send it up on the next flight that is going anyway? What else would you rather do with those millions?
Nobody said they don't have to be replaced. Just that the vast majority of them are running much longer than expected. Only the first generation of Prius vehicles are reaching their 10 year life.
Very interesting, but most people would still have to charge at home, and plan routes very carefully, even at the end of the timeline.
This is really an around town roadster, maybe a daily driver, but not something most people will want to set off on a road trip in. By the time Tesla gets these built, the industry will have moved on to Fuel Cell technology. Tesla is a stopgap measure at best.
Wait till you get to replace those batteries and discover the real costs:D
From what I've read about the Prius the battery life is exceeding expectations by a wide margin.
Most drivers have never faced a battery replacement, because they are easily managing 10 years (200K miles) and the batteries have shown no sign of needing replacement.
Admittedly it costs around 2000 to 2500 bucks when you do need a replacement, although salvage yards will sell them to you for around $500. A cottage industry has sprung up refurbing Prius batteries.
I don't think it should ever get so easy as to to allow machines making the kill decision without a human in the loop.
What if it were limited to enforcement of a "no fly zone"? It gives "land or exit" warnings, and if they are not obeyed, shoots down the aircraft? This is exactly what NATO aircraft with human pilots did in Operation Deny Flight in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993, under authority of United Nations Security Council Resolution 816.
I think by setting the rules of engagement, a human was in the loop.
Fine, but an unscheduled air ambulance enters the zone, or a passenger liner with communication problems doesn't happen to be monitoring that particular frequency, and strays into the wrong air space, Then what?
The human pilot identifies his target, attempts to give visual signals (wheels down, finger pointing to ground, etc), and under just about no circumstances shoots down a Commercial air liner (unless he is a Russian pilot).
Your drone scores another kill, and to hell with anybody who protests. Hey, we filed the proper forms and sent broadcasts, so screw you and your broken navigation gear excuse!
Summary: That such a ruling about unconstitutional activity exists is all that's publicly known. The method of spying was ruled unconstitutional, but has not been revealed.
The other thing that is that the DOJ is fighting to keep the document secret. They should be fighting to make it public.
Its time to seriously consider moving the DOJ to a different branch of government, perhaps its own branch.
Any race with the kind of technology to cross the incredibly vast distances of interstellar space wouldn't have any reason to give a rat's ass about our dumb puny asses. And if there was a conflict, it would be over pretty damned fast.
Exactly true. And with a vast choice of planets to choose to live on, why would they pick one so over run with contentious inhabitants. Nobody chooses to pitch their tent in an ant hive.
Seems to me that sentiment is pretty much only present ONLY when one of the parties goes out of its way to limit contact and the free exchange of ideas and trade.
We regularly demonize many classes of people and demote to non-human. Pedophiles. terrorists, monsters-du-jour, you name it. Before those is was gays, blacks, various ethnicities, you name it. Fashions come, fashions go.
So what is your point?
Every species exhibits conflict and turmoil among its own members, whereas violence between species is almost solely one of predator/prey relationship. If you don't eat them, and they don't eat you, there is almost never interspecies conflict. The greater the physical differences, the less likely any conflict.
This puts into doubt the whole premise of the book, not to mention a large part of the SiFi genre which all seem to claim there would be immediate war and planetary conquest upon the meeting of alien species.
Most of this is utter nonsense, based on how we treat others of our own species, not how we treat other species. I would wager any meeting between space faring species would be peaceful.
In fact any two species who can agree on two simple rules, (1) The other is not Food, (2) the other's planet is not your planet, would almost inevitably lead to peaceful co-existence and cooperation, and, most likely, a good deal of fascination with each other.
Are you sure you don't want to demand more specific sub set such that it can't possibly be fulfilled? Maybe Israeli Companies of left handed users operating In Iran, or companies of over 250,000 employees in Nome Alaska or something?
Government document processing needs and docment interchange needs are not significantly different than private business. If anything governments demand greater flexibility and accept documents from more diverse sources.
Your entry level battery operated RC controlled drone costs $30,000. The drone with the capabilities you seem to think exist cost 3 billion dollars.
Wireless Network Enabled cams cost under 200 dollars apiece. I'm sure even you can do the math.
The cameras have worked for New York City and many other cities which guard their commuter car yards with off the shelf web cam systems. Perhaps if Germany is incapable of handling simple technology, they could buy some help from the New York Transit authority.
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For once the UK leads the USA in the long, slow slide to a police state. They take them from kids a lot
For once?
The UK leads the way in the slide to Police State in almost every way, and has for a long time.
Doesn't matter. This gives police license to run dragnets for DNA. They can't solve a case but have DNA and a vague description, they will simply "arrest" anyone and everyone who is a close match to the description on trumped up charges that will be dropped after they get their DNA.
That leaves them open for false arrest charges, which would be pretty easy to prove if it happened on the scale you seem to imply, and each such arrest opens them up for perjury charge if they get a warrant. Especially if they have to let you go because the DNA exonerates you.
This ruling does not make arrest simply to get DNA legal, any more than Arrest simply to get fingerprints is legal.
For those few cases where they would otherwise follow a person around to get a sample of their DNA because they have other evidence not yet sufficient for a warrant, it does tend to suggest that they might be tempted to arrest them for some trivial issue. Still I don't see DNA only arrests on a pretense happening all that often without significant other evidence.
Contrary to what you see on TV it still takes days/weeks to get DNA processed in most states due to the backlog. The police aren't going to start wholesale DNA dragnets until results are cheaper and quicker to obtain.
The only good news -- I'm glad they are actually bothering to build a data center. Too many companies are reliant on "the cloud".
What's wrong with the cloud?
A well designed cloud won't be knocked out by any one storm or maybe any 5 storms, floods, water main breaks, hurriquakes, or lightning.
Police were pursuing a vehicle for an unnamed offense which ran several red lights before striking Reisse's vehicle at an intersection. The cynic in me says the offense wasn't extremely grievous if it has thus far gone unnamed: these testosterone-fueled police chases kill far too many innocents.
The cynic in you is dead wrong.
Quote: the link in TFA:
Authorities say the incident began when officers saw two vehicles full of people involved in some type of criminal activity in the 1000 block of Rosewood Court Thursday. When officers went to investigate, there was a physical altercation between police and 26-year-old Gerardo Diego Ayala that ended with a fatal officer-involved shooting. Police say a gun was located at the scene.
Also
Police say all are gang members on probation, with outstanding warrants for their arrest.
Poser.
You hold a phd in nothing.
Go away son, you bother me.
Let the adults handle the engineering and science, and you keep wringing your hands and whining about dollars wasted and never trying anything new. With your attitude we would never have gotten to space in the first place.
Nope.
ZG Flights last maybe 90 seconds, at which point gravity comes back and destroys the entire situation inside the machine.
You can't tell if your machine will operate in space by testing if for 1000 hours by testing 90 seconds at at time. Even the smallest printed item takes longer than 90 seconds to print.
Apples and Oranges much?
Pick up a small (commercial unit) drive over to the next launch site and toss it into the cargo.
The supply vehicles were going there anyway.
You don't pay for the whole launch when the thing is small enough to fit on your TV tray.
On the other hand, radiated heat may be all you need if you can tune your materials well enough.
If you can manage to keep your part exposed to deep space (not illuminated by sunlight), the radiation efficiency metrics are fairly well defined.
Media management might be a problem, but even that might not be so bad if it could be engineered to clump.
And if so, you could probably engineer some really large printers to print in free space (not enclosed in the ISS).
If you can manage the materials well enough you could print entire structures in space that you couldn't fabricate on
earth due to gravity (like large lattice structures) or, complete living modules, bigger than any lift vehicle etc. You'd have
to lay it down layer by layer with a "traveling depositor" of some sort.
You're missing the point entirely. You don't even know if a 3D printer can work without gravity. You need to test if you can even get the 3D printer to print anything in zero gravity first before you potentially waste millions of dollars sending a it to the ISS.
Waste millions?
Employing engineers here on earth to develop technology and iron out the bugs, and send it up on the next flight that is going anyway?
What else would you rather do with those millions?
Nobody said they don't have to be replaced.
Just that the vast majority of them are running much longer than expected.
Only the first generation of Prius vehicles are reaching their 10 year life.
For once I agree with the UN.
I don't think it should ever get so easy as to to allow machines making the kill decision
without a human in the loop.
You realize that such racist thinking is exactly what causes the Cyborg wars, right?
Well if we are going to build Skynet, we probably don't want to START with weapon systems.
Very interesting, but most people would still have to charge at home, and plan routes very carefully, even at the end of the timeline.
This is really an around town roadster, maybe a daily driver, but not something most people will want to set off on a road trip in.
By the time Tesla gets these built, the industry will have moved on to Fuel Cell technology. Tesla is a stopgap measure at best.
cost is the MAIN problem.
Wait till you get to replace those batteries and discover the real costs :D
From what I've read about the Prius the battery life is exceeding expectations by a wide margin.
Most drivers have never faced a battery replacement, because they are easily managing 10 years (200K miles) and the batteries
have shown no sign of needing replacement.
Admittedly it costs around 2000 to 2500 bucks when you do need a replacement, although salvage yards will sell them
to you for around $500. A cottage industry has sprung up refurbing Prius batteries.
For once I agree with the UN.
I don't think it should ever get so easy as to to allow machines making the kill decision
without a human in the loop.
What if it were limited to enforcement of a "no fly zone"? It gives "land or exit" warnings, and if they are not obeyed, shoots down the aircraft? This is exactly what NATO aircraft with human pilots did in Operation Deny Flight in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993, under authority of United Nations Security Council Resolution 816.
I think by setting the rules of engagement, a human was in the loop.
Fine, but an unscheduled air ambulance enters the zone, or a passenger liner with communication problems doesn't happen to be monitoring that particular frequency, and strays into the wrong air space, Then what?
The human pilot identifies his target, attempts to give visual signals (wheels down, finger pointing to ground, etc), and under just about no circumstances shoots down a Commercial air liner (unless he is a Russian pilot).
Your drone scores another kill, and to hell with anybody who protests. Hey, we filed the proper forms and sent broadcasts, so screw you and your broken navigation gear excuse!
Summary: That such a ruling about unconstitutional activity exists is all that's publicly known. The method of spying was ruled unconstitutional, but has not been revealed.
The other thing that is that the DOJ is fighting to keep the document secret.
They should be fighting to make it public.
Its time to seriously consider moving the DOJ to a different branch of government, perhaps its own branch.
For once I agree with the UN.
I don't think it should ever get so easy as to to allow machines making the kill decision
without a human in the loop.
But you are still in the book and the GP was criticizing the whole concept of the book.
You can't analyse a fairytale from within.
Any race with the kind of technology to cross the incredibly vast distances of interstellar space wouldn't have any reason to give a rat's ass about our dumb puny asses. And if there was a conflict, it would be over pretty damned fast.
Exactly true. And with a vast choice of planets to choose to live on, why would they pick one so over run with contentious inhabitants. Nobody chooses to pitch their tent in an ant hive.
Seems to me that sentiment is pretty much only present ONLY when one of the parties goes out of its way to limit contact and the free exchange of ideas and trade.
We regularly demonize many classes of people and demote to non-human. Pedophiles. terrorists, monsters-du-jour, you name it. Before those is was gays, blacks, various ethnicities, you name it. Fashions come, fashions go.
So what is your point?
Every species exhibits conflict and turmoil among its own members, whereas violence between species is almost solely one of predator/prey relationship. If you don't eat them, and they don't eat you, there is almost never interspecies conflict. The greater the physical differences, the less likely any conflict.
This puts into doubt the whole premise of the book, not to mention a large part of the SiFi genre which all seem to claim there would be immediate war and planetary conquest upon the meeting of alien species.
Most of this is utter nonsense, based on how we treat others of our own species, not how we treat other species.
I would wager any meeting between space faring species would be peaceful.
In fact any two species who can agree on two simple rules, (1) The other is not Food, (2) the other's planet is not your planet, would almost inevitably lead to peaceful co-existence and cooperation, and, most likely, a good deal of fascination with each other.
Mod parent +1 proper bitchslap!
Are you sure you don't want to demand more specific sub set such that it can't possibly be fulfilled?
Maybe Israeli Companies of left handed users operating In Iran, or companies of over 250,000 employees in Nome Alaska or something?
Government document processing needs and docment interchange needs are not significantly different than
private business. If anything governments demand greater flexibility and accept documents from more diverse sources.
Surely you can name just half a dozen companies whose user base comprises more than, say 200 people, that have switched entirely, then?
I mean, since you're so keen on citations, right?
For the Google challenged:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments
Your entry level battery operated RC controlled drone costs $30,000.
The drone with the capabilities you seem to think exist cost 3 billion dollars.
Wireless Network Enabled cams cost under 200 dollars apiece.
I'm sure even you can do the math.
The cameras have worked for New York City and many other cities which guard their commuter car yards with off the shelf web cam systems. Perhaps if Germany is incapable of handling simple technology, they could buy some help from the New York Transit authority.