However, now we are subject to "random searches" of backpacks and other large items. This is clearly not constitutional!
If what you are saying is true, perhaps not. However, you are not subject to anything. You have the choice to take private transportation to your destination, and avoid random searches of your backpack.
Personally, I think the rule should be, if you cross this line to enter the subway system, you will be subject to a bag search or metal detector scan, and you will not be allowed to leave the premises unless you allow this to happen. Otherwise a terrorist just tries one subway entrance, is asked for a bag check, denies it, leaves, enters another subway entrance. Repeat until successful, where is the public safety in that?
It's what's known as a "slippery slope". Once you start down it, you end up at the bottom, where the end result is a police state.
I'm a Libertarian, so believe me I am really interested in the loss of freedom. But you are trying to ride a PUBLIC TRANSPORT. You are trading freedoms for convenience, and the safety of yourself and your fellow passengers (if the security measures are executed CORRECTLY).
Uhh, yeah, what they looked like. Seems like a good place to start. Your idea ("the bomber had a HUMAN BODY!") leaves a little to be desired.
The cameras also tell them where they entered the public transportation system, what they were carrying, what they were wearing, how they acted.
When you're trying to piece together a crime, it helps to have as much data as possible. I don't think comprehensive video footage of a public, high-value target like a subway or building is an invasion of privacy, nor unreasonable.
I would also like to criticize the use of the word "guise," but I have the sick feeling that the editor that used this word doesn't understand what "guise" means.
This will work because A The cameras in London stopped the first attack B The cameras in London stopped the second attack. C The 9/11 attackers used their own ID to board the plane. D In all the above attacks the perpetrators were caught on film before the attacks, so this is obviously effective somehow.
You are ignorant because
A. You don't realize that cameras are normally intended to collect data about perpetrators after the fact.
B. This is how they were used in London.
C. They worked. They identified all the perpetrators in the first attack, and in the second failed attack, led to their arrests.
Massive invasions of privacy and surveillance don't stop terrorist attacks.
What privacy do you have on a subway? Just curious. Your subway must be different than mine.
Hundreds of peaceful dancers threatened with guns, and dozens beaten and arrested. This was a fully licensed event, and the police simply ripped up the permits and waved their guns.
Raves come under scrutiny because of the trouble that often comes from them. Drugs, underage drinking, and the problems that can come from having both of those things combined with a large group of people. Therefore when a rave happens, undercover police check them out and see if there are illegal activities occurring.
"Saturday's rave kicked off at 9 p.m., and by 10 p.m. undercover detectives with the Utah Major Crimes Task Force had observed 'numerous illegal activities' involving drugs and alcohol. They also verified that more than 250 people were at the party in violation of county statutes."
"At least 60 arrests were made for weapons offenses, DUI, illegal underage consumption of alcohol, possessions of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy. Arrests also were made for resisting arrest, assault on police officer and disorderly conduct."
"'There's no doubt in my mind that this one could have been at 2,000 plus (people),' he said. 'That's why we hit it so early.'"
All they did was look for a near-collision differential path which has low Hamming weight in the "disturbance vector" where each 1-bit represents a 6-step local collision. Then they simply adjusted the differential path in the first round to another possible differential path so as to avoid impossible consecutive local collisions and truncated local collisions. Then obviously the final step taken was to transform two one-block near-collision differential paths into a twoblock collision differential path with twice the search complexity.
San Diego County Government had 12,000 workstations crash. People couldn't do ANYTHING connected to the county. They had 3,000 systems up today. Wonder if I can apply for the sysadmin job?
I don't see why not. As of yesterday, it doesn't sound like they even had one.
An NDA only applies to the person who signs it. If Bob Smith signs an NDA and then runs to me and tells me what he saw, I am not civilly liable, Bob is. It's unlikely that anyone at this French web site signed an NDA, as they're a news site, not developers.
No, I was getting bent out of shape about how you were proposing the publicly funded computers. Rather than selling them at market prices and making some money back to be used (to avoid the need for more public money), you propose giving them away for free to people who are most likely going to sell them at market prices. Oh, and you want to pay people (with public money or time) to teach these people how to use the computers they're likely not going to keep.
Ideas like this are what keep government fucked up.
That is something the up of which he will not put.
Jokes making fun of English grammar rules are funnier when they're written correctly. Also, you left out an apostrophe while deriding the grammar of the Slashdot editors.
Try to get one of these to work well in a large city with lots of radio stations. Good luck, you'll need it, or a Faraday cage for a house.
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Ok, repeat after me... this will be easy, ok?
PODCASTING IS NOT RADIO.
Ok, repeat after me... this may not be easy, based on your apparant lack of reading cognition, ok?
"it's like TiVo for audio broadcasts"
See, that was what I said.
Then I said it lets people compete against big-budget radio programs, because a lot of the podcast content now is big-budget radio programs.
Listening to someone pretending to be doing radio over God knows how many takes completely ruins the experience for me.
I have more news for you... podcasting is not all amateur hour. My favorite podcasts are radio re-broadcasts, or newsmagazines like newsweek, or near-live clips like the hourly CNN update.
I don't, and there's no need to get nasty over it, we're all grown ups.
This is slashdot. I'm That's Unpossible! and you're Lisandro, two anonymous dorks arguing on a friday night about whether podcasting is cool or not. What is there to get nasty about? Perhaps you perceived my searing sarcasm as nastiness, my apologies.
podcasting is not "revolutionary", neither a new technology.
Where did I say it was revolutionary or a new technology? It is evolutionary, and it will most definitely be popular as more professional-level content becomes available. Why? I'll tell you:
1. There are audio broadcasts you can't always get via radio in your part of the world, so you want to listen to it anyway. Say you moved and you still want to listen to your hometown radio show.
2. People are often in their cars or with their digital music devices at times when their radio program is not on the air. It'd be nice to listen to it whenever, just like PVRs let you watch your favorite programs whenever.
3. People like to skip past commercials. What is better than [insert favorite radio program]? That radio program without the commercials. People would even be willing to pay for good audio programs that have no commercials.
Your whole point seems to be "I hate amateur broadcasts." Wake up, man, the content will get there.
People like to compare podcasting to streaming, a fad that is not as popular now. But streaming was never convenient, and it didn't offer many advantages over regular radio. Perhaps a bit more content, but usually at crappier quality levels, and now you're tethered to your computer. Satellite radio killed the internet streaming market.
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Point is - it's still downloading audio clips from the web.
Yeah, and the web is just downloading bits over TCP/IP, but it's a hell of a lot easier to use than gopher/ftp, and they were easier to use than BBSes.
You see, we build new things on top of older technology to make it better. Then those new technologies become popular.
At one point "the web" was a buzzword, but then it become ubiquitous, and now no one thinks of it as a buzzword.
Podcasting is a new technology built on top of the web, xml, rss, etc. It's two things: On the client side, it's like TiVo for audio broadcasts. You subscribe to content you like, and it's delivered to your listening device for portable, time-shifted listening pleasure. And the second part of podcasting is it gives amateurs a chance to compete against established, big-budget radio programs, because the budget requirements are vastly diminished (bandwidth is cheaper than an FCC license and a radio tower).
Next time someone wants to diss podcasting, maybe they should understand (a) what it really is, and (b) why it is becoming popular. Thus avoiding looking like a dumbass down the road. Such as some around here have had happen ("no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame").
It seems to me the only lesson to be learned is "If we don't make a serious effort to make our x86 macs different enough from vanilla PCs, or sell the OS by itself to regular x86 users that want it, a bunch of jackassess will just download it off some P2P network, run it on their own boxes, and freeload off our hard work".
While I don't doubt that, there is definitely a real, working torrent floating around. I've used it in vmware already and am testing it on a separate drive now. (Anyone know an easy way to dual boot XP and OSx86, with OSX imaged to my second drive?)
Normally I don't run pirated software, but I justify it in this case because I will be purchasing a Mac when they release it on intel hardware, and I just bought a mac mini to tide me over.:)
'Western Siberia has warmed faster than almost anywhere else on the planet, with an increase in average temperatures of some 3C in the last 40 years.'
Hmm. Sounds like local warming, not global warming.
In my opinion, you can't believe anything you read about "global warming" or "climate change" -- for or against the idea -- because there's so much bullshit coming from both sides pushing their agendas.
I am listening to Michael Crichton's STATE OF FEAR book, and I'll admit I have my doubts now about global warming claims. Or at least I'm more skeptical now about claims from either side. Suffice it to say, Crichton is normally a very astute researcher for his books, even though he obviously bends the truth to make his fiction more interesting.
What if we just all try to not waste as much stuff (food, electricity, natural resources), and assume it'll help?
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Well, it's a good thing these terrorists were stupid enough to carry their wallets with them. Will that happen again?
And what about the failed second bombings? Video tape was used to locate them, not photo ID.
However, now we are subject to "random searches" of backpacks and other large items. This is clearly not constitutional!
If what you are saying is true, perhaps not. However, you are not subject to anything. You have the choice to take private transportation to your destination, and avoid random searches of your backpack.
Personally, I think the rule should be, if you cross this line to enter the subway system, you will be subject to a bag search or metal detector scan, and you will not be allowed to leave the premises unless you allow this to happen. Otherwise a terrorist just tries one subway entrance, is asked for a bag check, denies it, leaves, enters another subway entrance. Repeat until successful, where is the public safety in that?
It's what's known as a "slippery slope". Once you start down it, you end up at the bottom, where the end result is a police state.
I'm a Libertarian, so believe me I am really interested in the loss of freedom. But you are trying to ride a PUBLIC TRANSPORT. You are trading freedoms for convenience, and the safety of yourself and your fellow passengers (if the security measures are executed CORRECTLY).
No, it only told them what they looked like.
Uhh, yeah, what they looked like. Seems like a good place to start. Your idea ("the bomber had a HUMAN BODY!") leaves a little to be desired.
The cameras also tell them where they entered the public transportation system, what they were carrying, what they were wearing, how they acted.
When you're trying to piece together a crime, it helps to have as much data as possible. I don't think comprehensive video footage of a public, high-value target like a subway or building is an invasion of privacy, nor unreasonable.
You're being lied to. Wake up.
What were we being lied to about?
I would also like to criticize the use of the word "guise," but I have the sick feeling that the editor that used this word doesn't understand what "guise" means.
This will work because
A The cameras in London stopped the first attack
B The cameras in London stopped the second attack.
C The 9/11 attackers used their own ID to board the plane.
D In all the above attacks the perpetrators were caught on film before the attacks, so this is obviously effective somehow.
You are ignorant because
A. You don't realize that cameras are normally intended to collect data about perpetrators after the fact.
B. This is how they were used in London.
C. They worked. They identified all the perpetrators in the first attack, and in the second failed attack, led to their arrests.
Massive invasions of privacy and surveillance don't stop terrorist attacks.
What privacy do you have on a subway? Just curious. Your subway must be different than mine.
"Finally! We move on from English. We have advanced beyond centruries old technology."
Glad you crould jroin us!
Besides, if you care so much about law and order, you should be concerned that this raid happened in a lawful manner. It wasn't.
According to you and the ravers who had their party raided. Permit me to yawn. Let me know when the facts come out in court.
Hundreds of peaceful dancers threatened with guns, and dozens beaten and arrested. This was a fully licensed event, and the police simply ripped up the permits and waved their guns.
And now, for the other side of the story.
Raves come under scrutiny because of the trouble that often comes from them. Drugs, underage drinking, and the problems that can come from having both of those things combined with a large group of people. Therefore when a rave happens, undercover police check them out and see if there are illegal activities occurring.
"Saturday's rave kicked off at 9 p.m., and by 10 p.m. undercover detectives with the Utah Major Crimes Task Force had observed 'numerous illegal activities' involving drugs and alcohol. They also verified that more than 250 people were at the party in violation of county statutes."
"At least 60 arrests were made for weapons offenses, DUI, illegal underage consumption of alcohol, possessions of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy. Arrests also were made for resisting arrest, assault on police officer and disorderly conduct."
"'There's no doubt in my mind that this one could have been at 2,000 plus (people),' he said. 'That's why we hit it so early.'"
So, pretty much you're full of shit.
That's just modern journalism.
It used to be Who What When Where and How, now it's May Might Could HelpTo and SomeDay.
Yeah, modern journalism. Nothing like those retro journalists and their flying cars.
All they did was look for a near-collision
differential path which has low Hamming weight in the "disturbance vector" where each 1-bit represents a 6-step local collision. Then they simply adjusted the differential path in the first round to another possible differential path so as to avoid impossible consecutive local collisions and truncated local collisions. Then obviously the final step taken was to transform two one-block near-collision differential paths into a twoblock
collision differential path with twice the search complexity.
Duh...
No problem, just post them as a new story on slashdot.
San Diego County Government had 12,000 workstations crash.
People couldn't do ANYTHING connected to the county.
They had 3,000 systems up today.
Wonder if I can apply for the sysadmin job?
I don't see why not. As of yesterday, it doesn't sound like they even had one.
An NDA only applies to the person who signs it. If Bob Smith signs an NDA and then runs to me and tells me what he saw, I am not civilly liable, Bob is. It's unlikely that anyone at this French web site signed an NDA, as they're a news site, not developers.
Maybe you're wrong.
No, I was getting bent out of shape about how you were proposing the publicly funded computers. Rather than selling them at market prices and making some money back to be used (to avoid the need for more public money), you propose giving them away for free to people who are most likely going to sell them at market prices. Oh, and you want to pay people (with public money or time) to teach these people how to use the computers they're likely not going to keep.
Ideas like this are what keep government fucked up.
I do hold a degree(s), in the field in which I work
I'm confused by your sentence above... have you forgotten whether or not you had more than one degree?
Anyone have any thoughts on how to avoid this?
Don't give tax-payer funded computer equipment to people who can't afford the necessities of life?
Seems pretty obvious.
That is something the up of which he will not put.
Jokes making fun of English grammar rules are funnier when they're written correctly. Also, you left out an apostrophe while deriding the grammar of the Slashdot editors.
That is something up with which I will not put!
there are no 14-18 year old girls on slashdot.
Are you sure?
I've seen some of you throw.
Like an FM transmitter?
Try to get one of these to work well in a large city with lots of radio stations. Good luck, you'll need it, or a Faraday cage for a house.
Ok, repeat after me... this will be easy, ok?
PODCASTING IS NOT RADIO.
Ok, repeat after me... this may not be easy, based on your apparant lack of reading cognition, ok?
"it's like TiVo for audio broadcasts"
See, that was what I said.
Then I said it lets people compete against big-budget radio programs, because a lot of the podcast content now is big-budget radio programs.
Listening to someone pretending to be doing radio over God knows how many takes completely ruins the experience for me.
I have more news for you... podcasting is not all amateur hour. My favorite podcasts are radio re-broadcasts, or newsmagazines like newsweek, or near-live clips like the hourly CNN update.
I don't, and there's no need to get nasty over it, we're all grown ups.
This is slashdot. I'm That's Unpossible! and you're Lisandro, two anonymous dorks arguing on a friday night about whether podcasting is cool or not. What is there to get nasty about? Perhaps you perceived my searing sarcasm as nastiness, my apologies.
podcasting is not "revolutionary", neither a new technology.
Where did I say it was revolutionary or a new technology? It is evolutionary, and it will most definitely be popular as more professional-level content becomes available. Why? I'll tell you:
1. There are audio broadcasts you can't always get via radio in your part of the world, so you want to listen to it anyway. Say you moved and you still want to listen to your hometown radio show.
2. People are often in their cars or with their digital music devices at times when their radio program is not on the air. It'd be nice to listen to it whenever, just like PVRs let you watch your favorite programs whenever.
3. People like to skip past commercials. What is better than [insert favorite radio program]? That radio program without the commercials. People would even be willing to pay for good audio programs that have no commercials.
Your whole point seems to be "I hate amateur broadcasts." Wake up, man, the content will get there.
People like to compare podcasting to streaming, a fad that is not as popular now. But streaming was never convenient, and it didn't offer many advantages over regular radio. Perhaps a bit more content, but usually at crappier quality levels, and now you're tethered to your computer. Satellite radio killed the internet streaming market.
Point is - it's still downloading audio clips from the web.
Yeah, and the web is just downloading bits over TCP/IP, but it's a hell of a lot easier to use than gopher/ftp, and they were easier to use than BBSes.
You see, we build new things on top of older technology to make it better. Then those new technologies become popular.
At one point "the web" was a buzzword, but then it become ubiquitous, and now no one thinks of it as a buzzword.
Podcasting is a new technology built on top of the web, xml, rss, etc. It's two things: On the client side, it's like TiVo for audio broadcasts. You subscribe to content you like, and it's delivered to your listening device for portable, time-shifted listening pleasure. And the second part of podcasting is it gives amateurs a chance to compete against established, big-budget radio programs, because the budget requirements are vastly diminished (bandwidth is cheaper than an FCC license and a radio tower).
Next time someone wants to diss podcasting, maybe they should understand (a) what it really is, and (b) why it is becoming popular. Thus avoiding looking like a dumbass down the road. Such as some around here have had happen ("no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame").
Here, I fixed your comment:
It seems to me the only lesson to be learned is "If we don't make a serious effort to make our x86 macs different enough from vanilla PCs, or sell the OS by itself to regular x86 users that want it, a bunch of jackassess will just download it off some P2P network, run it on their own boxes, and freeload off our hard work".
While I don't doubt that, there is definitely a real, working torrent floating around. I've used it in vmware already and am testing it on a separate drive now. (Anyone know an easy way to dual boot XP and OSx86, with OSX imaged to my second drive?)
:)
Normally I don't run pirated software, but I justify it in this case because I will be purchasing a Mac when they release it on intel hardware, and I just bought a mac mini to tide me over.
I've been Googling for this Savage game and haven't found a link. Where can I find more info?
You have? I googled "Savage game" and got the official page on the first result.
'Western Siberia has warmed faster than almost anywhere else on the planet, with an increase in average temperatures of some 3C in the last 40 years.'
Hmm. Sounds like local warming, not global warming.
In my opinion, you can't believe anything you read about "global warming" or "climate change" -- for or against the idea -- because there's so much bullshit coming from both sides pushing their agendas.
I am listening to Michael Crichton's STATE OF FEAR book, and I'll admit I have my doubts now about global warming claims. Or at least I'm more skeptical now about claims from either side. Suffice it to say, Crichton is normally a very astute researcher for his books, even though he obviously bends the truth to make his fiction more interesting.
What if we just all try to not waste as much stuff (food, electricity, natural resources), and assume it'll help?
Incidentally, he's currently hosted in the Netherlands.
Good luck, FedEx.
But his ass is hosted in Arizona, which means if he really is violating the DMCA, it will apply to his site no matter where it's hosted.