Where does it stop? Does this mean just about anybody can be forbidden from publishing pictures of things visible from the public eye? I can see a danger of this sort of thing being applied very selectively.
You generally don't want to edit temporally compressed video. DV, for example, is a spatial codec. The problem is editing within the GOP (group of pictures). If you access a given frame it has to calculate not just that frame, but all the frames around it going back all the way to the I frame (keyframe). This is further complicated with h264 where b frames are used as reference frames (references of references). It's too much work for your cpu/gpu when you're dealing with multiple video streams at the same time. That's where intermediate codecs come in you can convert to, edit, and then export to a final codec such as h264 or Theora.
The point you're missing is that since x264 is a closed format the Mozilla foundation can't include it in their browser because of the patent fees and so forth. It's not idealism of open v. closed. It's just the situation required by the stupidity of US patent law. If the US didn't recognize software patents i'm sure the Mozilla foundation would quickly integrate the x264 project as an h264 excoder/decoder into their browser. Personally I think the answer is to define a video tag like an image tag and leave the browser / plugins and/or system codecs to sort it out. Safari uses the system's quicktime for video (even avi), IE uses directshow, and Firefox in linux an use the vlc plugin to play just about anything. Why is it suddenly the responsibility of the browser to do provide something that already exists?
Well, I have to start with the fact that Margaret Singers 'Studies' on cults and thought control have been pretty thoroughly debunked.
Source? See. A lot of her studies would be difficult to disprove given they're based on real world cults. Any similar "official" studies would be impermissible experiments. Given that I was in a cult, i'd have to agree with her conclusions. People *can* be changed without their knowledge or consent, and all it requires is a number of criteria which she and others (Lifton, Ofshe, Schien) have outlined. PS: it's "thought reform" not "thought control".
And sometimes that works, especially when the followers of such policies are volunteers or can otherwise "opt out". Look at the BDFL model for OSS development. Leaders are only leaders so long as they have followers and burning man will be successful only so long as their leaders don't abuse their power (people will simply not buy tickets).
And that's the problem. If prison were about rehabilitation either instead of or in addition to punishment, the recidivism rates would be far lower than they are at present.
OK. Define "rehabilitation". If it's anything remotely similar to "re-education", I think you can see the problem some might have with it (at least I do). The GP had it right when he used the term "behavior modification" or more accurately, thought reform. That process is unethical to do to somebody without their knowledge or consent (and interestingly enough, isn't even possible if a person knows what's going on... see Singer's first condition).
Even if it's for a person's "own good" or even society's own good, it's still a process of stripping away a person's identity, ethics, and ultimately freedom to think and act, even if it's to make the "wrong" choices. Personally I think that removing punishment will only enourage criminals anyway, considering there will be less deterrence. You claim that criminals don't think before they act. Well. Nothing teaches that better than a just punishment.
Yeah, but if somebody can interfere with the reporting (through the device it transmits to) they could report a normal condition when a the pacemaker is really having a malfunction, or a full battery when it's really bordering on empty. It's a bad bad idea.
Its funny though, I've run Windows for a very very long time, and haven't used antivirus for the past decade. I run checks and my system doesn't pass any weird traffic, there are not unexplainable processes or services. I guess I just don't do stupid things to get viruses.
Most of the drivers are standard fare straight from Nvidia, intel, and RealTek. When I installed XP on my MBP I simply installed my own drivers. Works fine but battery life is decreased. I think that probably has to do something with the amount of processing offloaded by OSX onto the GPU.
Well. It might be a decent business plan. He might gain more money but less readership. Long term, i'm not sure that's such a good strategy but in the short term it might work just fine. Ad revenue can't be that good.
And generally nobody cares because they don't believe it happens. It's too horrible to image it being possible. The kids must be making it up, right? The more extreme, the less likely anybody will believe it. People won't hear you out long enough for you to present the hard evidence (which exists), and the news media is often too scared to take on litigious cultic groups. I administer a forum on this topic and you would not believe the amount of legal threats we get. Media dont' care enough to take the risk because it hasn't happened to them and until it does, nobody really cares.
If you're referring to Cartesano, he didn't start it (though he did help popularize so-called "wilderness" therapy). The whole industry (wider spectrum including actual boot camps, RTCs, etc...) started in Southern California from a little cult known as Synanon which was based on AA. Most of the parents aren't religious either and this is hardly a religious issue at all. The parents are conned and scared; told that their kids will be dead insane or in jail without the program. When people are desperate and scared they choose desperate solution's. Customers of these places are spread across a wide political and religious spectrum. Most parents simply could not imagine such things can happen in the united states. If anything the left-leaning parents just as easy to con since they believe the allmighty state will protect their kids. When a program says they're "licensed", parents figure that means it's safe. Well. Aaron Bacon died in a licensed program as have so many other kids. None of it matters much if the programs are as good at fooling the rare inspections as they are with parents on a regular basis. Providing a false front is something that cults and cult-like groups are very adept at. Frankly, I don't believe regulation will ever be enough because no matter what, these groups will always be one step ahead. A while back I interviewed an ex-employee of a Utah program who told me they actually had drills to prepare for unexpected arrival of inspectors.
I'd be the parent of one of the dead kids, I'd lodge a bullet into that asshole's head, whatever the cost would be.
This is hilarious. On a mac, Apple's default dictionary dashboard widget allows looking up of words like "fuck" and the like... but for some reason not on an iphone. Makes no sense at all.
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And then that banking will go to the Caymans. Like it or not such things always have and always will exist.
One would assume by the precedent set by the Swiss those activities would also become prohibited.
Where does it stop? Does this mean just about anybody can be forbidden from publishing pictures of things visible from the public eye? I can see a danger of this sort of thing being applied very selectively.
You generally don't want to edit temporally compressed video. DV, for example, is a spatial codec. The problem is editing within the GOP (group of pictures). If you access a given frame it has to calculate not just that frame, but all the frames around it going back all the way to the I frame (keyframe). This is further complicated with h264 where b frames are used as reference frames (references of references). It's too much work for your cpu/gpu when you're dealing with multiple video streams at the same time. That's where intermediate codecs come in you can convert to, edit, and then export to a final codec such as h264 or Theora.
The point you're missing is that since x264 is a closed format the Mozilla foundation can't include it in their browser because of the patent fees and so forth. It's not idealism of open v. closed. It's just the situation required by the stupidity of US patent law. If the US didn't recognize software patents i'm sure the Mozilla foundation would quickly integrate the x264 project as an h264 excoder/decoder into their browser. Personally I think the answer is to define a video tag like an image tag and leave the browser / plugins and/or system codecs to sort it out. Safari uses the system's quicktime for video (even avi), IE uses directshow, and Firefox in linux an use the vlc plugin to play just about anything. Why is it suddenly the responsibility of the browser to do provide something that already exists?
See here. I wonder if these clowns know that. I'd hate to see these profiteering zealots run afoul of the law.ï
Because they're public figures and have no right to privacy.
Well, I have to start with the fact that Margaret Singers 'Studies' on cults and thought control have been pretty thoroughly debunked.
Source? See. A lot of her studies would be difficult to disprove given they're based on real world cults. Any similar "official" studies would be impermissible experiments. Given that I was in a cult, i'd have to agree with her conclusions. People *can* be changed without their knowledge or consent, and all it requires is a number of criteria which she and others (Lifton, Ofshe, Schien) have outlined. PS: it's "thought reform" not "thought control".
And sometimes that works, especially when the followers of such policies are volunteers or can otherwise "opt out". Look at the BDFL model for OSS development. Leaders are only leaders so long as they have followers and burning man will be successful only so long as their leaders don't abuse their power (people will simply not buy tickets).
And that's the problem. If prison were about rehabilitation either instead of or in addition to punishment, the recidivism rates would be far lower than they are at present.
OK. Define "rehabilitation". If it's anything remotely similar to "re-education", I think you can see the problem some might have with it (at least I do). The GP had it right when he used the term "behavior modification" or more accurately, thought reform. That process is unethical to do to somebody without their knowledge or consent (and interestingly enough, isn't even possible if a person knows what's going on... see Singer's first condition). Even if it's for a person's "own good" or even society's own good, it's still a process of stripping away a person's identity, ethics, and ultimately freedom to think and act, even if it's to make the "wrong" choices. Personally I think that removing punishment will only enourage criminals anyway, considering there will be less deterrence. You claim that criminals don't think before they act. Well. Nothing teaches that better than a just punishment.
Yeah, but if somebody can interfere with the reporting (through the device it transmits to) they could report a normal condition when a the pacemaker is really having a malfunction, or a full battery when it's really bordering on empty. It's a bad bad idea.
Its funny though, I've run Windows for a very very long time, and haven't used antivirus for the past decade. I run checks and my system doesn't pass any weird traffic, there are not unexplainable processes or services. I guess I just don't do stupid things to get viruses.
Is the ethernet cable plugged in?
Most of the drivers are standard fare straight from Nvidia, intel, and RealTek. When I installed XP on my MBP I simply installed my own drivers. Works fine but battery life is decreased. I think that probably has to do something with the amount of processing offloaded by OSX onto the GPU.
People that labels themselves and refuse to consider those they disagree are competent are lemmings.
Well. It might be a decent business plan. He might gain more money but less readership. Long term, i'm not sure that's such a good strategy but in the short term it might work just fine. Ad revenue can't be that good.
That's one way to ensure nobody reads his stuff.
For those not familiar with WWASP, there is a documentary available here (mp4 video).
And generally nobody cares because they don't believe it happens. It's too horrible to image it being possible. The kids must be making it up, right? The more extreme, the less likely anybody will believe it. People won't hear you out long enough for you to present the hard evidence (which exists), and the news media is often too scared to take on litigious cultic groups. I administer a forum on this topic and you would not believe the amount of legal threats we get. Media dont' care enough to take the risk because it hasn't happened to them and until it does, nobody really cares.
If you're referring to Cartesano, he didn't start it (though he did help popularize so-called "wilderness" therapy). The whole industry (wider spectrum including actual boot camps, RTCs, etc...) started in Southern California from a little cult known as Synanon which was based on AA. Most of the parents aren't religious either and this is hardly a religious issue at all. The parents are conned and scared; told that their kids will be dead insane or in jail without the program. When people are desperate and scared they choose desperate solution's. Customers of these places are spread across a wide political and religious spectrum. Most parents simply could not imagine such things can happen in the united states. If anything the left-leaning parents just as easy to con since they believe the allmighty state will protect their kids. When a program says they're "licensed", parents figure that means it's safe. Well. Aaron Bacon died in a licensed program as have so many other kids. None of it matters much if the programs are as good at fooling the rare inspections as they are with parents on a regular basis. Providing a false front is something that cults and cult-like groups are very adept at. Frankly, I don't believe regulation will ever be enough because no matter what, these groups will always be one step ahead. A while back I interviewed an ex-employee of a Utah program who told me they actually had drills to prepare for unexpected arrival of inspectors.
I'd be the parent of one of the dead kids, I'd lodge a bullet into that asshole's head, whatever the cost would be.
Frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.
This is hilarious. On a mac, Apple's default dictionary dashboard widget allows looking up of words like "fuck" and the like... but for some reason not on an iphone. Makes no sense at all.
Sorry. I assumed you still bought into it.
Yip. And you know me so well.
Yup. And he is only one of many.
You want that in USB? (NSFW)
I would bet money the designers of the technology have already tested that. LOL.