The study is weak at including other factors, such as population concentration density in its analysis. Population concentration has increased in lock step with Global Warming, and indeed density may be a key part in warming. Further, density has a much more readily measured correlation with violence. (That is you can measure the correlation it statistically in the modern era, without having to rely on sketchy records of the past).
There is still the competing theory of Tetraethyl lead, which explains not only the rise in violence, but also the recent DECLINE in violence, which the warming theory doesn't even address.
Leaded gasoline has a remarkable correspondence to violent behavior, lowered IQ, and more so in men than women. There is a 23 year lag, in the correlation. Some areas where leaded gasoline is still used correspond to the trouble spots of the world.
And yes, it goes without saying, that correlation does not imply causation, something lost in translation in the mainstream press in their rush to pin yet another evil thing onto Climate Change.
I've been using KDE since it was released, and have never given Calliga a peek, and only about 6 months ago have I even heard of Calliga at all.
You'd never know it by visiting the Calligra site, but it was forked from KOffice, and Kword, KSpread, KPresenter etc. all got renamed after the Fork. (I had guessed it was a fork because large application suites don't spring fully fledged from nothing).
I'm not sure I need yet another office suite at work, but it has some things that might be interesting to try, since installation is just a click away on any competent Linux Distro.
There's less money in Africa than elsewhere, but by the same token, there is less entrenched competition there as well.
Who ever gets there firstest with the mostest has a great chance of owning the continent. It might not be profitable this year or this decade, but sooner or later they will be the entrenched company.
Maybe Huawei is finding itself shut out of western markets for fear of backdoors and stolen code, that the best market they can find is selling to their own government's aid programs.
Embassies ordered closed all over the middle east for next Sunday. No doubt this will be attributed to something they picked up on someones email. Someone will throw a rock or a grenade somewhere in the middle east and there will be a big "We told you so" moment.
That isn't good, but it doesn't actually mean that celebrities have some kind of inherent or national right to control their likenesses. States which disagree with this kind of outcome should make sure they repeal, or don't pass in the first place, laws like California's.
It isn't exactly BAD either.
First, in the present case(s), these were college kids, playing in what is nationally asserted as a non-pro setting.
But also, it seems quite obvious that such rulings asserting some semblance of privacy are long overdue. The violations of all norms of behavior often goes to absolutely ridiculous extremes, which makes it pretty much a necessity for government to step in and even the playing field. Hence California's Paparazzi Law.
So, now anyone can make a video game featuring pro athletes?
These athletes weren't PRO, they were still in college. (Perhaps on a Football scholarship). But if accepting a scholarship opens your life to every public use under the sun, then we've not only slipped down that slippery slope, we've hit rock bottom.
So its not the same as a pro player being paid to perform.
If it was only the Ninth, I wouldn't worry, but the Third Circuit found essentially the exact same thing for a different player.
Still I find it odd, that this Court, or any Court, asserting any right to privacy issues one one bench while on other benches, they have gaveled down any such right when ever the government wants a peek at your emails.
When will Americans get their heads out of their ass and accept that this is not about any single president? This is bigger than the President. It's bigger than either party. And it's not good for Americans regardless of their party, their gender, their age, their color...
What you have to be asking, is how do these spy agencies get a guy like Obama, who painted himself as the grand reformer, the president for the people, to jump in bed with them and defend them to the hilt?
Did they tell him: "We know what you did in Russia, Barry!"? Or did the intelligence community as a whole run this guy for president (twice) and make sure he won? How many ballot boxes did they stuff? How many electronic voting machines did they compromise?
And in light of their capabilities, how can we ever contemplate electronic voting in this country?
What I find ironic about all this is if they EVER catch a single terrorist thanks to all this big brother crap? It'll be the kind too fucking dumb to have been any good at being a terrorist, your Richard Reid "useful idiot" kind of Muslim extremist. Any terrorist that could actually do any damage, your Abu Nidal mean motorscooter types aren't gonna be so damned retarded as to Google for instructions with zero obfuscation, not when you have multiple free anonymizing services and search engines that don't log like DuckDuckGo and Scroogle.
What is maddening, more than ironic, is that it appears NOT A SINGLE terrorist has been detected using the PRISM dragnet. One case in NYC was assisted, by PRISM, but that case was discovered by other means, and PRISM was used after the discovery.
In spite of the lies told before congress, those that have seen the real information have not been able to identify any cases where Prism has discovered anything of value that your typical FBI investigation would not have turned up also.
However, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, NSA Deputy Director John Inglis said U.S. bulk phone records spying was key in stopping just one terror plot, not the dozens officials had earlier said.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., accused Obama administration officials of overstating the successes of the far-reaching counter-terrorism program.
Leahy questioned earlier testimony by Alexander and other senior intelligence officials asserting the phone surveillance helped thwart 54 terrorist events. Leahy told Inglis he realized after reviewing NSA material that assertion couldn't be made, "not by any stretch." He said the NSA material didn't indicate "dozens or even several terrorist plots" had been thwarted by the domestic program.
Serious question(s): What sites have you been to that don't allow you to zoom and what phone are you using? I've never had this issue on the last two phones I've had that have this type of zoom (Galaxy S3 and HD2).
There are some problems with this zooming in. But it depends on the capabilities of the browser.
The Android Stock Browser works well to reflow text when you zoom into a page (assuming you haven't turned that off). So when you zoom into a page, you will zoom up the text and reflow the text so that it fits on the screen.
But Google's newer Chrome browser for Android, (with which they would like to replace the stock Android browser) does not reflow, so in order to read wide pages, you end up scrolling left and right to read full lines.
Both of my phones and my Tablet work this way. Obviously its less of a problem on my tablet, but there are certain sites that use overly small text. (Like almost anything you will find on www.gpo.gov ).
Stock Android browser also has "Read Mode" (box icon at left edge of the URL bar) which rips the text out of any page and renders it in easy to read size. A godsend for aging eyes.
Unless or until reflow gets added to Chrome, these two features I can't see it surviving as the new Stock browser. Supposedly Firefox for Android does reflow.
What, you think the 1% who do won't be able to get the word out to their less technical family members, who will in turn tell their friends, co-workers, bosses, etc, who will in turn tell their friends, co-workers, bosses, etc, cascading into a full-on shitstorm?
Exactly. One guy, Snowden, a geek by anyone's definition, managed to stir up a shitstorm of monumental proportions. People are now pissed enough, or perhaps I should say enough people are pissed, that another attempt like that would bring down the whole house of cards.
The government would probably have to engineer another terrorist attack, with mass casualties in order to induce people to demand that Congress authorize such a power grab.
Maybe. Historically my terms have changed over time. They've doubled my speed for no additional money.
I run my own mail server, web server, ftp, server and a specialized server for remote application connections. Its been totally problem free, and the service speed has steadily improved. So here's hope for more change.
You are absolutely right. Sonic is not a major carrier.
Yet it still blocks port 25. (Maybe you should read the links you post before actually posting them?).
Still Sonic is more open than any of the big country wide ISPs. I'd love to do business with them but alas, I don't live in their minuscule foot print.
As for bad decisions, you should remember most people in this country have a choice of dial-up or exactly ONE provider.
And, you are also wrong about ARPA. They have been out of the funding of the internet since 1990. ARPAnet was decommissioned in 1990. At that time there was still no public internet.
But on the other hand, for a British Judge to rule that any use of the word Sky with preceding or trailing letters in any combination somehow violates a someone else's brand name is a bit of a stretch. It seem more based on the fact it was an American company they could pick on easily. I'm pretty sure the SkyTrain brand name is still held by someone, even if they are no longer in business.
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On the other hand, considering the Federal Government's track record over the last decade, I wouldn't trust them not to cross the boundary with armed UAS, but they will do it bit by bit so as to not cause a stir until they've come up with a good way to sell it to the public. Customs and Border Patrol are already using Predators and Reapers at the border, so it may only be an "Executive Order" away.
Once they certify the platform, the FAA has nothing more to say about what it can carry, especially in the hands of law enforcement. The ScanEagle can carry a payload about the size of a two liter soda bottle. Plenty big enough for armed use.
When your local Sheriff's department gains a UAV it will be sold as search and rescue, with children trotted out to pet it and photo ops. It will save the children, you know.
Make no mistake, this is a trial balloon, with use cases mentioned far away in places, where "nobody lives" (Alaska). Neither of the devices has the range to be of any value what so ever in Alaska, where 60 miles is just a grocery run.
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Americans won't just say "meh" to their own dead women and children either.
Americans are already in the process of saying "meh" to total Government awareness and spying on every facet of their lives, and using SWAT teams for mundane process server jobs. What makes you think they won't excuse collateral damage deaths as inevitable consequences that have to be accepted for the greater good?
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It is a new program and the FAA is trying to avoid mid air collisions. They are working on the rules.
If they were concerned with mid air collisions they would not certify a device with a 16,000 foot service ceiling.
If anything, they are limiting the SIZE to something that is likely to be fairly inconsequential if hits a building or a passenger plane, and with very small payload capabilities. Mostly camera and telemetry packages. Still once certified, there is nothing to prevent anyone from owning one.
When licensing these to private companies, not to mention law enforcement, you can expect a lot of push back when these start showing up over residential areas. You can hear a chopper coming, but at 16000 feet you won't hear much of anything till its past over you. By getting everyone used to seeing these once in a while, they can then authorize the military grade drones.
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Looking at each of the two systems you will see that these are fairly range limited, one having only a two hour endurance and a 9 mile range, the other (Boeing) having 20 hours endurance, 62 mile range, (and a ceiling of 16000 ft, high enough to interfere with commercial flights).
Most of the range issues are telemetry for remote piloting.
Still, you can expect some states and agencies to pick up the 20 hour Boeing ScanEagle, based on search and rescue justifications, while the shorter range craft will probably be bought in larger numbers by law enforcement, (And will quickly be proven a money and manpower wasting boondoggle).
(Dispatch: All searchers and helicopters please return to base so we can send the Drone into a clean environment! News choppers, please clear the airspace and maintain 20 mile distance for drone operations!)
You can soon expect to hear the lament: If only one lost child's life is saved.....
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The study is weak at including other factors, such as population concentration density in its analysis. Population concentration has increased in lock step with Global Warming, and indeed density may be a key part in warming. Further, density has a much more readily measured correlation with violence. (That is you can measure the correlation it statistically in the modern era, without having to rely on sketchy records of the past).
There is still the competing theory of Tetraethyl lead, which explains not only the rise in violence, but also the recent DECLINE in violence, which the warming theory doesn't even address.
Leaded gasoline has a remarkable correspondence to violent behavior, lowered IQ, and more so in men than women. There is a 23 year lag, in the correlation. Some areas where leaded gasoline is still used correspond to the trouble spots of the world.
And yes, it goes without saying, that correlation does not imply causation, something lost in translation in the mainstream press in their rush to pin yet another evil thing onto Climate Change.
Just to cool them down after sweating them under the lights.
I've been using KDE since it was released, and have never given Calliga a peek, and only about 6 months ago have I even heard of Calliga at all.
You'd never know it by visiting the Calligra site, but it was forked from KOffice, and Kword, KSpread, KPresenter etc. all got
renamed after the Fork. (I had guessed it was a fork because large application suites don't spring fully fledged from nothing).
A primer for those new to Caligra is Here.
I'm not sure I need yet another office suite at work, but it has some things that might be interesting
to try, since installation is just a click away on any competent Linux Distro.
An a shop keeper who loses money on every sale an expects to make it up on volume is a bigger idiot.
There's less money in Africa than elsewhere, but by the same token, there is less entrenched competition there as well.
Who ever gets there firstest with the mostest has a great chance of owning the continent. It might not be profitable this year or this decade, but sooner or later they will be the entrenched company.
Maybe Huawei is finding itself shut out of western markets for fear of backdoors and stolen code, that the best market they can find is selling to their own government's aid programs.
Already in progress.
Embassies ordered closed all over the middle east for next Sunday. No doubt this will be attributed to something they picked up on someones email. Someone will throw a rock or a grenade somewhere in the middle east and there will be a big "We told you so" moment.
You go out of your way to make a Distinction without a Difference.
Who puts the cuffs on you hardly matters.
If you believe the nonsense about their charter you deserve the delusions under which you so evidently labor.
EA is a 3rd party buying the product,
EA is the third party usurping the product and repackaging it to make a profit.
That isn't good, but it doesn't actually mean that celebrities have some kind of inherent or national right to control their likenesses. States which disagree with this kind of outcome should make sure they repeal, or don't pass in the first place, laws like California's.
It isn't exactly BAD either.
First, in the present case(s), these were college kids, playing in what is nationally asserted as a non-pro setting.
But also, it seems quite obvious that such rulings asserting some semblance of privacy are long overdue.
The violations of all norms of behavior often goes to absolutely ridiculous extremes, which makes it pretty much
a necessity for government to step in and even the playing field. Hence California's Paparazzi Law.
So, now anyone can make a video game featuring pro athletes?
These athletes weren't PRO, they were still in college. (Perhaps on a Football scholarship).
But if accepting a scholarship opens your life to every public use under the sun, then we've not only slipped down that slippery slope, we've hit rock bottom.
So its not the same as a pro player being paid to perform.
If it was only the Ninth, I wouldn't worry, but the Third Circuit found essentially the exact same thing for a different player.
Still I find it odd, that this Court, or any Court, asserting any right to privacy issues one one bench while on other benches, they have gaveled down any such right when ever the government wants a peek at your emails.
Really? How is this different?
If anything its more alarming that any random police department has access to your searches.
Well the guy is a known journalist and that means he is a subversive.
So there.
Journalists are lap dogs you insensitive clod.
When will Americans get their heads out of their ass and accept that this is not about any single president? This is bigger than the President. It's bigger than either party. And it's not good for Americans regardless of their party, their gender, their age, their color...
What you have to be asking, is how do these spy agencies get a guy like Obama, who painted himself as the grand reformer, the president for the people, to jump in bed with them and defend them to the hilt?
Did they tell him: "We know what you did in Russia, Barry!"? Or did the intelligence community as a whole run this guy for president (twice) and make sure he won? How many ballot boxes did they stuff? How many electronic voting machines did they compromise?
And in light of their capabilities, how can we ever contemplate electronic voting in this country?
What I find ironic about all this is if they EVER catch a single terrorist thanks to all this big brother crap? It'll be the kind too fucking dumb to have been any good at being a terrorist, your Richard Reid "useful idiot" kind of Muslim extremist. Any terrorist that could actually do any damage, your Abu Nidal mean motorscooter types aren't gonna be so damned retarded as to Google for instructions with zero obfuscation, not when you have multiple free anonymizing services and search engines that don't log like DuckDuckGo and Scroogle.
What is maddening, more than ironic, is that it appears NOT A SINGLE terrorist has been detected using the PRISM dragnet. One case in NYC was assisted, by PRISM, but that case was discovered by other means, and PRISM was used after the discovery.
In spite of the lies told before congress, those that have seen the real information have not been able to identify any cases where Prism has discovered anything of value that your typical FBI investigation would not have turned up also.
However, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, NSA Deputy Director John Inglis said U.S. bulk phone records spying was key in stopping just one terror plot, not the dozens officials had earlier said.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., accused Obama administration officials of overstating the successes of the far-reaching counter-terrorism program.
Leahy questioned earlier testimony by Alexander and other senior intelligence officials asserting the phone surveillance helped thwart 54 terrorist events.
Leahy told Inglis he realized after reviewing NSA material that assertion couldn't be made, "not by any stretch."
He said the NSA material didn't indicate "dozens or even several terrorist plots" had been thwarted by the domestic program.
Serious question(s): What sites have you been to that don't allow you to zoom and what phone are you using? I've never had this issue on the last two phones I've had that have this type of zoom (Galaxy S3 and HD2).
There are some problems with this zooming in. But it depends on the capabilities of the browser.
The Android Stock Browser works well to reflow text when you zoom into a page (assuming you haven't turned that off). So when you zoom into a page, you will zoom up the text and reflow the text so that it fits on the screen.
But Google's newer Chrome browser for Android, (with which they would like to replace the stock Android browser) does not reflow, so in order to read wide pages, you end up scrolling left and right to read full lines.
Both of my phones and my Tablet work this way. Obviously its less of a problem on my tablet, but there are certain sites that use overly small text. (Like almost anything you will find on www.gpo.gov ).
Stock Android browser also has "Read Mode" (box icon at left edge of the URL bar) which rips the text out of any page and renders it in easy to read size. A godsend for aging eyes.
Unless or until reflow gets added to Chrome, these two features I can't see it surviving as the new Stock browser. Supposedly Firefox for Android does reflow.
Whooosh Woooosh.
What, you think the 1% who do won't be able to get the word out to their less technical family members, who will in turn tell their friends, co-workers, bosses, etc, who will in turn tell their friends, co-workers, bosses, etc, cascading into a full-on shitstorm?
Exactly.
One guy, Snowden, a geek by anyone's definition, managed to stir up a shitstorm of monumental proportions.
People are now pissed enough, or perhaps I should say enough people are pissed, that another attempt like that would bring down the whole house of cards.
The government would probably have to engineer another terrorist attack, with mass casualties in order to induce people to demand that Congress authorize such a power grab.
Maybe. Historically my terms have changed over time. They've doubled my speed for no additional money.
I run my own mail server, web server, ftp, server and a specialized server for remote application connections.
Its been totally problem free, and the service speed has steadily improved. So here's hope for more change.
You are absolutely right. Sonic is not a major carrier.
Yet it still blocks port 25. (Maybe you should read the links you post before actually posting them?).
Still Sonic is more open than any of the big country wide ISPs. I'd love to do business with them but alas, I don't live in their minuscule foot print.
As for bad decisions, you should remember most people in this country have a choice of dial-up or exactly ONE provider.
And, you are also wrong about ARPA. They have been out of the funding of the internet since 1990. ARPAnet was decommissioned in 1990. At that time there was still no public internet.
Funding for the internet in the US from 1995 to present is all commercial. Most infrastructure was built with outrageous subscription fees of home and small business users. Nothing of the original ARPAnet remains.
Now trademark trouble over the name SkyDrive.
But on the other hand, for a British Judge to rule that any use of the word Sky with preceding or trailing letters in any combination somehow violates a someone else's brand name is a bit of a stretch. It seem more based on the fact it was an American company they could pick on easily. I'm pretty sure the SkyTrain brand name is still held by someone, even if they are no longer in business.
There were plans afoot to integrate skydrive more tightly with Windows 8.x anyway so it may become a moot point,
On the other hand, considering the Federal Government's track record over the last decade, I wouldn't trust them not to cross the boundary with armed UAS, but they will do it bit by bit so as to not cause a stir until they've come up with a good way to sell it to the public. Customs and Border Patrol are already using Predators and Reapers at the border, so it may only be an "Executive Order" away.
Once they certify the platform, the FAA has nothing more to say about what it can carry, especially in the hands of law enforcement. The ScanEagle can carry a payload about the size of a two liter soda bottle. Plenty big enough for armed use.
When your local Sheriff's department gains a UAV it will be sold as search and rescue, with children trotted out to pet it and photo ops. It will save the children, you know.
Make no mistake, this is a trial balloon, with use cases mentioned far away in places, where "nobody lives" (Alaska). Neither of the devices has the range to be of any value what so ever in Alaska, where 60 miles is just a grocery run.
Americans won't just say "meh" to their own dead women and children either.
Americans are already in the process of saying "meh" to total Government awareness and spying on every facet of their lives, and using SWAT teams for mundane process server jobs. What makes you think they won't excuse collateral damage deaths as inevitable consequences that have to be accepted for the greater good?
It is a new program and the FAA is trying to avoid mid air collisions. They are working on the rules.
If they were concerned with mid air collisions they would not certify a device with a 16,000 foot service ceiling.
If anything, they are limiting the SIZE to something that is likely to be fairly inconsequential if hits a building or a passenger plane, and with very small payload capabilities. Mostly camera and telemetry packages. Still once certified, there is nothing to prevent anyone from owning one.
When licensing these to private companies, not to mention law enforcement, you can expect a lot of push back when these start showing up over residential areas. You can hear a chopper coming, but at 16000 feet you won't hear much of anything till its past over you. By getting everyone used to seeing these once in a while, they can then authorize the military grade drones.
Looking at each of the two systems you will see that these are fairly range limited, one having only a two hour endurance and a 9 mile range, the other (Boeing) having 20 hours endurance, 62 mile range, (and a ceiling of 16000 ft, high enough to interfere with commercial flights).
Most of the range issues are telemetry for remote piloting.
Still, you can expect some states and agencies to pick up the 20 hour Boeing ScanEagle, based on search and rescue justifications, while the shorter range craft will probably be bought in larger numbers by law enforcement, (And will quickly be proven a money and manpower wasting boondoggle).
(Dispatch: All searchers and helicopters please return to base so we can send the Drone into a clean environment! News choppers, please clear the airspace and maintain 20 mile distance for drone operations!)
You can soon expect to hear the lament: If only one lost child's life is saved.....