The problem is where there's money involved a lot of women will be coerced into it, and good luck proving that there's a pimp in the background doing the coercing. It's hard enough now with prostitution being illegal in most states. If the act itself was legal, there would be one more layer of legal insulation for the pimps involved and more women would likely be victimized.
For what it's worth, I tend to agree that if it's two actual consenting adults and the lady isn't being coerced in any way then, yeah, fine, whatever. The problem is you either need heavy regulation for this (which runs counter to the seeming spirit of this proposal) or you need way more faith in humanity than I am capable of mustering.
If the police are at your door for a specific reason, they would argue that it's a Terry Stop and the "must identify" laws would apply.
The "must identify" laws require that you correctly identify yourself when asked (during a Terry stop), and laws in various states have other questions which must be answered as well. There is no such law in MA, but the NH law reads:
Questioning and Detaining Suspects. – A peace officer may stop any person abroad whom he has reason to suspect is committing, has committed or is about to commit a crime, and may demand of him his name, address, business abroad and where he is going.
I believe (IANAL) that the "abroad" part of that law means not in their home. In any case, I don't think there's any legal basis for claiming a Terry "Stop" at someone's house. I think any competent judge would throw that out.
This all might be foreshadowed by RIM and Blackberry: originally king at business, trying to fit in elsewhere, disrupted by technology they didn't grasp, falling behind, throwing money at trying to stay relevant, while everyone else wants to move on.
RIM, whether they like it or not, is transitioning into a services company. They made an incredibly shrewd move with the Mobile Device Management platform formerly Blackberry Fusion, now rebranded Universal Device Service. They allowed existing Blackberry customers to migrate licenses for all of 2013 for free to the new platform and use those licenses to manage not only Blackberry 10 devices (naturally) but also iPhone/iPad and Android devices. This made an incredibly strong cost/benefit argument for existing customers faced with increasing pressure to allow corporate iPhones and Androids to just keep using Blackberry to manage them. This helps Blackberry (the company) ensure a consistent revenue stream from MDM licensing even if you're using a competitors product.
The switch to ActiveSync for messaging will also help take the load off of their servers, allowing them to shrink their infrastructure saving even more money, and whether the phone ends up being popular or not (it's a pretty solid device, just very few apps as yet), they have a viable path forward for the future. They were already a trusted name in the MDM market with a great deal of penetration with their old devices. The leveraged that pretty hard and I think it will be their saving grace going forward.
It's like asking what would happen if the oceans started draining? Yeah, it would eventually devastate the oceans, but there's so much water there that it takes forever. For Microsoft to fold up shop would take at least a decade of consistently bad decisions, and even then it would almost have to be willful.
For modern examples of tech companies in decline, consider Blackberry, formerly Research in Motion. Everybody says they are dead in the water, but if you look at it, they still have billions in cash, and probably at least 5+ years of life even if everything goes completely against them.
Or SCO - they limped and legally maneuvered their way into 10+ years of extra life (the last 5 of which have been under bankruptcy protection!) when they should've been dead and gone since at least 2005. No, corporations do not go quietly into that good night. Those that should by all rights be "dead" usually have at least 5+ years of limping along to do.
It all depends on why you do it. If you kill because you like to see animals suffer, then yes, something is very wrong. If you kill as efficiently and painlessly as possible in order to harvest the meat (either for your family or for others) then it's fine and shouldn't cause psychological damage. Specifically, the MacDonald Triad refers to *animal cruelty* which is basically torturing animals for fun. If you try and twist this to cover a man killing cows in a slaughterhouse which are then taken and eaten, I think you've reached too far with it.
True, honest to God sociopaths have no empathy, this is true. And a lot of them grow up torturing animals. But a lot of perfectly empathic, well-adjusted kids and adults can hunt, kill, and dress animals without compunction or any real harm. You may get an empathic response if you see a deer wheezing on its side suffering (in fact, I would be worried if you *didn't*) but in that case you put a mercy kill shot in its head and carry on with dressing it. The trick and the major difference is hunting for the joy of inflicting pain (sociopath) and hunting for food where the object is to kill the animal as quickly and painlessly as possible to harvest its meat (not sociopath). I promise you if plants screamed when they were killed you would get over this kick pretty quickly because you still have to eat.
But I'm not sure how applicable it is to psychopathic criminals. It sounds like you used a behavior-modification technology backed by social and mythological indoctrination to help deflect a malleable still-forming mind onto a more empathic path.
By the time they're actually full blown criminals, maybe it is too late. But it has been found that the incidence of psychopathy varies by culture. Some studies show as much as 4% of people in the United States, down to as little as about 0.5% in places like Thailand with a strong cultural bias against psychopathic behaviors. This study about it being a switch that can be turned on and off makes sense in that context. More psychopaths choose to leave it on in a society where there are strong negative consequences for having it off. In America we reward psychopathic behavior in business (sure you financially ruined thousands of lives, but here's a cool million as a bonus for cost saving!), and only truly come down on it when it involves direct violence against other people.
It costs money to build that search mechanism. And you would basically only be doing it to fill FOIA or subpoena requests. It's hard to justify spending the scratch for the benefit of outside agencies.
As an Exchange administrator, I can say that searching across an entire mail database is absolutely possible, and also very simple to do from the Management Shell. They're either lying, or just don't want to do it.
Also as an Exchange administrator, I can assure you that if your database is sufficiently large, such a request can *still* take forever to fill. You're basically looking at minimum 1 day per Terabyte of email. The interface is not quick, and it does crawl it mailbox by mailbox. Yes, you can do it with a single command, but it is prohibitive on staff time to setup/execute and lawyer time to redact the non-responsive bits.
For some reason people believe governments make wiser decisions than wealthy individuals, but most of the long term projects happening in the world these days, the kind of things that matter to human survival as a species, and not just "the right party" winning the next short term election, are all being funded by wealthy individuals.
Honestly there are some projects that are too big/too expensive/too vague on returns for even the wealthiest individuals to tackle. No single person or company could have gotten us to the moon in the 1960's. Transportation infrastructure absent government regulation and standardization is a nightmare (just look at the private railroad industry - they couldn't even agree on the same distance between *rails*). And say what you will about our military expenditures, but the military is there first on a lot of expensive, wildly experimental, cutting edge technology and they cover a lot of the high-risk low-return R&D work that later gets used by industry 10-20 years down the road. I'm talking things like rockets, lasers, radar, cell phones, nuclear technology, GPS, and the internet. All of this has *massively* benefited private industry and society as a whole, and very little to none of it could've been done by any individual or company.
I highly doubt Elon Musk with all his resources could've gotten a GPS satellite constellation off the ground. And even if he had, would it be free to use the signal like it is today?
I would argue that slipstreaming is vastly simpler in Vista/7. Add to that the fact that you can slip in absolutely anything you want (IE9, Apps,.Net, DirectX...) and I strongly prefer the new model to the old.
Not quite. If there are exactly four smudges then you can deduce that it's a 4 digit password with no digits repeated, this makes 4! or 24 combinations. If there are only three smudges then one digit is repeated then there's 3*(4!/2!) = 36 possible combos. But then if there's two smudges you have either each one repeated twice or one repeated three times = 2*(4!/3!) + (4!/(2!*2!)) = 8 + 6 = 14. One smudge makes 1 combo of course. Worst case is 48 though.
RED II, good movie saw it this weekend but Meh, Bruce Willis is making too many movies, Loopers, Die Hard 99. He must need money. Helen Mirren is great in as is John Malkovich is very funny. But why did they get Cathy Zits Jones? Also Brian Cox and Anthony Hopkins so the two Hannibal Lecters in the same film. Hopkins is getting old, you can tell. Cox in this Russian Spy Zar garb is ridiculous. Something about Helen Mirren with a.50 cal sniper rifle though...
I have to say though the thing that made RED II so incredibly watchable is that everyone in it is obviously having a blast making it. The fun is infectious. Especially Anthony Hopkins. He is getting old, but he's just so jolly about committing mass murder! His turn in this movie makes him as Hannibal look sane. At least Hannibal knew that he was doing horrible things and reveled in it. Here he's cheerfully planning to wipe out millions of people and can't see why anyone would have a problem with that. Catherine Zeta-Jones was wasted in this though. Her part was too small and could've been replaced with just about anyone. Overall though RED II was one of two really brilliant movies this summer. The other one being Despicable Me 2.
Blu ray is $25 or so
Movie theater is $30 plus the junk food and other costs to see a movie once
If they want people to pay premium prices offer a premium experience
Roomier seats
Kick out people making noise
No kids in adult movies
No babies
Cinepolis offers all of this. If you live in the San Diego area there's one in Del Mar. R-rated movies are 21 and up only (and they'll serve you booze at your seat). The seats are all recliners, the staff are friendly, and there's a call button at every seat to have a waiter come, take your order, and bring you food/drink/whatever during the flick. The tickets are pricier (~$17 each) and obviously the food and drink are your standard being robbed at the movies prices, but it is absolutely a premium experience that delivers what is promised.
On the flip side - Suckerpunch tried exactly the same thing and failed because they focused too heavily on making it look cool and forcing the fact they did so on you.
I really liked SuckerPunch, but then all I was expecting was killer visuals and ridiculous over-the-top action sequences. I understand that the trailer promised some kind of transcendental meta-reality experience but I wrote that off as stupid Hollywood tripe (and I was right) and instead wanted to see gatlin-gun wielding zombie samurai warriors inexplicably being cut down by a 5ft tall blonde chick with a sword. And I was not disappointed. Everything that wasn't a 5ft. tall chick inexplicably destroying anime monsters was a borefest, but the movie was a lot of fun all the same.
You can't screw that up, and they don't. That's really all the movie has going for it (the plot is a turd), but damn, giant robots beating up giant monsters is fun as hell to look at. And as long as that's all you expect going in, you absolutely get what you paid for.
The DVD *is* out before the movie if you just let Fat Tony down at the swapmeet know that you're interested in it a few weeks before it comes out. Two for five dollars!
There have only been two worthy movies this summer so far: Despicable Me 2 and Red 2. Both of them are brilliant for all the same reasons that the originals were, and in my opinion both are slightly superior to the originals. I admit to liking Pacific Rim as a guilty pleasure (robots smash monsters!) but I know it was a terrible, bad, awful movie. I still liked it, but I will never bother watching it again. But Red 2 and Despicable Me 2 actually resonated with me. That was good special effects and good action married to a witty script that just made going to the cinema *fun*.
I took some parallel processing classes in the last couple of years as part of my Master's program. CUDA was one of those tricky little beasts that basically takes a few minutes to learn (assuming a rock solid C/C++ background) but a lifetime to master the nuances.
We were building little throw-away matrix multiply programs - for which we were given horribly inefficient and barely functional source to start with. The challenge was to make it run as fast as possible, with extra credit going to the fastest implementation. It turns out to accomplish this you basically need to understand every tier of the memory architecture of CUDA, the process by which it reads in cache lines to avoid collisions, how to optimize the read/write patterns, how the job would be split up among the GPU's (and the parameters used for the splitting), and basically every nit-picking detail of how the hardware actually runs.
This runs counter to the level of abstraction that most CS majors are used to dealing with - if we wanted to do hardware we would've gone the EE or CE route - but if you want to truly want to grok CUDA, you have to become a hardware wiz. Otherwise you'll always be stuck wondering why you can never seem to get the level of speedup that the benchmarks suggest should be possible.
BB10 devices use ActiveSync to do mail pushes. Now it just goes over the standard 4g/3g networks like iPhones/Androids do. The only connection that I've seen be required to RIM servers is if you use their BES10 software and that's just for policies and suchlike.
Dude, you're way out of context here. He's talking about copying the R&D work of a company to undercut their product on price and prevent them from recouping the cost of their R&D work (China and Zynga are somewhat notorious for this). At no point does he universally condemn all free riding, which can be a good thing in some cases as you point out. I'd say he's applying accounting in a fairly laser-like fashion to address a specific issue and you're the one who lacks focus.
Considering that even the smallest class of these containers weighs two tons when *empty*, I don't think you and your jet-ski are hauling it home anytime soon.
I think it's practical to weigh each one on the crane lifting it and if it's more than maybe 3-4% over the declared weight you don't ship it. Especially if failure to do so can cause a $250 million whoopsie.
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The problem is where there's money involved a lot of women will be coerced into it, and good luck proving that there's a pimp in the background doing the coercing. It's hard enough now with prostitution being illegal in most states. If the act itself was legal, there would be one more layer of legal insulation for the pimps involved and more women would likely be victimized.
For what it's worth, I tend to agree that if it's two actual consenting adults and the lady isn't being coerced in any way then, yeah, fine, whatever. The problem is you either need heavy regulation for this (which runs counter to the seeming spirit of this proposal) or you need way more faith in humanity than I am capable of mustering.
And we need MORE H1-B workers to build these yachts, because there aren't enough qualified Americans to build them!
If the police are at your door for a specific reason, they would argue that it's a Terry Stop and the "must identify" laws would apply.
The "must identify" laws require that you correctly identify yourself when asked (during a Terry stop), and laws in various states have other questions which must be answered as well. There is no such law in MA, but the NH law reads:
Questioning and Detaining Suspects. – A peace officer may stop any person abroad whom he has reason to suspect is committing, has committed or is about to commit a crime, and may demand of him his name, address, business abroad and where he is going.
I believe (IANAL) that the "abroad" part of that law means not in their home. In any case, I don't think there's any legal basis for claiming a Terry "Stop" at someone's house. I think any competent judge would throw that out.
This all might be foreshadowed by RIM and Blackberry: originally king at business, trying to fit in elsewhere, disrupted by technology they didn't grasp, falling behind, throwing money at trying to stay relevant, while everyone else wants to move on.
RIM, whether they like it or not, is transitioning into a services company. They made an incredibly shrewd move with the Mobile Device Management platform formerly Blackberry Fusion, now rebranded Universal Device Service. They allowed existing Blackberry customers to migrate licenses for all of 2013 for free to the new platform and use those licenses to manage not only Blackberry 10 devices (naturally) but also iPhone/iPad and Android devices. This made an incredibly strong cost/benefit argument for existing customers faced with increasing pressure to allow corporate iPhones and Androids to just keep using Blackberry to manage them. This helps Blackberry (the company) ensure a consistent revenue stream from MDM licensing even if you're using a competitors product.
The switch to ActiveSync for messaging will also help take the load off of their servers, allowing them to shrink their infrastructure saving even more money, and whether the phone ends up being popular or not (it's a pretty solid device, just very few apps as yet), they have a viable path forward for the future. They were already a trusted name in the MDM market with a great deal of penetration with their old devices. The leveraged that pretty hard and I think it will be their saving grace going forward.
It's like asking what would happen if the oceans started draining? Yeah, it would eventually devastate the oceans, but there's so much water there that it takes forever. For Microsoft to fold up shop would take at least a decade of consistently bad decisions, and even then it would almost have to be willful.
For modern examples of tech companies in decline, consider Blackberry, formerly Research in Motion. Everybody says they are dead in the water, but if you look at it, they still have billions in cash, and probably at least 5+ years of life even if everything goes completely against them.
Or SCO - they limped and legally maneuvered their way into 10+ years of extra life (the last 5 of which have been under bankruptcy protection!) when they should've been dead and gone since at least 2005. No, corporations do not go quietly into that good night. Those that should by all rights be "dead" usually have at least 5+ years of limping along to do.
It all depends on why you do it. If you kill because you like to see animals suffer, then yes, something is very wrong. If you kill as efficiently and painlessly as possible in order to harvest the meat (either for your family or for others) then it's fine and shouldn't cause psychological damage. Specifically, the MacDonald Triad refers to *animal cruelty* which is basically torturing animals for fun. If you try and twist this to cover a man killing cows in a slaughterhouse which are then taken and eaten, I think you've reached too far with it.
True, honest to God sociopaths have no empathy, this is true. And a lot of them grow up torturing animals. But a lot of perfectly empathic, well-adjusted kids and adults can hunt, kill, and dress animals without compunction or any real harm. You may get an empathic response if you see a deer wheezing on its side suffering (in fact, I would be worried if you *didn't*) but in that case you put a mercy kill shot in its head and carry on with dressing it. The trick and the major difference is hunting for the joy of inflicting pain (sociopath) and hunting for food where the object is to kill the animal as quickly and painlessly as possible to harvest its meat (not sociopath). I promise you if plants screamed when they were killed you would get over this kick pretty quickly because you still have to eat.
But I'm not sure how applicable it is to psychopathic criminals. It sounds like you used a behavior-modification technology backed by social and mythological indoctrination to help deflect a malleable still-forming mind onto a more empathic path.
By the time they're actually full blown criminals, maybe it is too late. But it has been found that the incidence of psychopathy varies by culture. Some studies show as much as 4% of people in the United States, down to as little as about 0.5% in places like Thailand with a strong cultural bias against psychopathic behaviors. This study about it being a switch that can be turned on and off makes sense in that context. More psychopaths choose to leave it on in a society where there are strong negative consequences for having it off. In America we reward psychopathic behavior in business (sure you financially ruined thousands of lives, but here's a cool million as a bonus for cost saving!), and only truly come down on it when it involves direct violence against other people.
It costs money to build that search mechanism. And you would basically only be doing it to fill FOIA or subpoena requests. It's hard to justify spending the scratch for the benefit of outside agencies.
As an Exchange administrator, I can say that searching across an entire mail database is absolutely possible, and also very simple to do from the Management Shell. They're either lying, or just don't want to do it.
Also as an Exchange administrator, I can assure you that if your database is sufficiently large, such a request can *still* take forever to fill. You're basically looking at minimum 1 day per Terabyte of email. The interface is not quick, and it does crawl it mailbox by mailbox. Yes, you can do it with a single command, but it is prohibitive on staff time to setup/execute and lawyer time to redact the non-responsive bits.
For some reason people believe governments make wiser decisions than wealthy individuals, but most of the long term projects happening in the world these days, the kind of things that matter to human survival as a species, and not just "the right party" winning the next short term election, are all being funded by wealthy individuals.
Honestly there are some projects that are too big/too expensive/too vague on returns for even the wealthiest individuals to tackle. No single person or company could have gotten us to the moon in the 1960's. Transportation infrastructure absent government regulation and standardization is a nightmare (just look at the private railroad industry - they couldn't even agree on the same distance between *rails*). And say what you will about our military expenditures, but the military is there first on a lot of expensive, wildly experimental, cutting edge technology and they cover a lot of the high-risk low-return R&D work that later gets used by industry 10-20 years down the road. I'm talking things like rockets, lasers, radar, cell phones, nuclear technology, GPS, and the internet. All of this has *massively* benefited private industry and society as a whole, and very little to none of it could've been done by any individual or company.
I highly doubt Elon Musk with all his resources could've gotten a GPS satellite constellation off the ground. And even if he had, would it be free to use the signal like it is today?
I would argue that slipstreaming is vastly simpler in Vista/7. Add to that the fact that you can slip in absolutely anything you want (IE9, Apps, .Net, DirectX...) and I strongly prefer the new model to the old.
Because they realigned the codebase for vista SP1 to match Server 2008 RTM. That made SP1 required for Vista to update to SP2.
Not quite. If there are exactly four smudges then you can deduce that it's a 4 digit password with no digits repeated, this makes 4! or 24 combinations. If there are only three smudges then one digit is repeated then there's 3*(4!/2!) = 36 possible combos. But then if there's two smudges you have either each one repeated twice or one repeated three times = 2*(4!/3!) + (4!/(2!*2!)) = 8 + 6 = 14. One smudge makes 1 combo of course. Worst case is 48 though.
RED II, good movie saw it this weekend but Meh, Bruce Willis is making too many movies, Loopers, Die Hard 99. He must need money. Helen Mirren is great in as is John Malkovich is very funny. But why did they get Cathy Zits Jones? Also Brian Cox and Anthony Hopkins so the two Hannibal Lecters in the same film. Hopkins is getting old, you can tell. Cox in this Russian Spy Zar garb is ridiculous. Something about Helen Mirren with a .50 cal sniper rifle though...
I have to say though the thing that made RED II so incredibly watchable is that everyone in it is obviously having a blast making it. The fun is infectious. Especially Anthony Hopkins. He is getting old, but he's just so jolly about committing mass murder! His turn in this movie makes him as Hannibal look sane. At least Hannibal knew that he was doing horrible things and reveled in it. Here he's cheerfully planning to wipe out millions of people and can't see why anyone would have a problem with that. Catherine Zeta-Jones was wasted in this though. Her part was too small and could've been replaced with just about anyone. Overall though RED II was one of two really brilliant movies this summer. The other one being Despicable Me 2.
Blu ray is $25 or so Movie theater is $30 plus the junk food and other costs to see a movie once
If they want people to pay premium prices offer a premium experience Roomier seats Kick out people making noise No kids in adult movies No babies
Cinepolis offers all of this. If you live in the San Diego area there's one in Del Mar. R-rated movies are 21 and up only (and they'll serve you booze at your seat). The seats are all recliners, the staff are friendly, and there's a call button at every seat to have a waiter come, take your order, and bring you food/drink/whatever during the flick. The tickets are pricier (~$17 each) and obviously the food and drink are your standard being robbed at the movies prices, but it is absolutely a premium experience that delivers what is promised.
On the flip side - Suckerpunch tried exactly the same thing and failed because they focused too heavily on making it look cool and forcing the fact they did so on you.
I really liked SuckerPunch, but then all I was expecting was killer visuals and ridiculous over-the-top action sequences. I understand that the trailer promised some kind of transcendental meta-reality experience but I wrote that off as stupid Hollywood tripe (and I was right) and instead wanted to see gatlin-gun wielding zombie samurai warriors inexplicably being cut down by a 5ft tall blonde chick with a sword. And I was not disappointed. Everything that wasn't a 5ft. tall chick inexplicably destroying anime monsters was a borefest, but the movie was a lot of fun all the same.
You can't screw that up, and they don't. That's really all the movie has going for it (the plot is a turd), but damn, giant robots beating up giant monsters is fun as hell to look at. And as long as that's all you expect going in, you absolutely get what you paid for.
The DVD *is* out before the movie if you just let Fat Tony down at the swapmeet know that you're interested in it a few weeks before it comes out. Two for five dollars!
There have only been two worthy movies this summer so far: Despicable Me 2 and Red 2. Both of them are brilliant for all the same reasons that the originals were, and in my opinion both are slightly superior to the originals. I admit to liking Pacific Rim as a guilty pleasure (robots smash monsters!) but I know it was a terrible, bad, awful movie. I still liked it, but I will never bother watching it again. But Red 2 and Despicable Me 2 actually resonated with me. That was good special effects and good action married to a witty script that just made going to the cinema *fun*.
I took some parallel processing classes in the last couple of years as part of my Master's program. CUDA was one of those tricky little beasts that basically takes a few minutes to learn (assuming a rock solid C/C++ background) but a lifetime to master the nuances.
We were building little throw-away matrix multiply programs - for which we were given horribly inefficient and barely functional source to start with. The challenge was to make it run as fast as possible, with extra credit going to the fastest implementation. It turns out to accomplish this you basically need to understand every tier of the memory architecture of CUDA, the process by which it reads in cache lines to avoid collisions, how to optimize the read/write patterns, how the job would be split up among the GPU's (and the parameters used for the splitting), and basically every nit-picking detail of how the hardware actually runs.
This runs counter to the level of abstraction that most CS majors are used to dealing with - if we wanted to do hardware we would've gone the EE or CE route - but if you want to truly want to grok CUDA, you have to become a hardware wiz. Otherwise you'll always be stuck wondering why you can never seem to get the level of speedup that the benchmarks suggest should be possible.
BB10 devices use ActiveSync to do mail pushes. Now it just goes over the standard 4g/3g networks like iPhones/Androids do. The only connection that I've seen be required to RIM servers is if you use their BES10 software and that's just for policies and suchlike.
Dude, you're way out of context here. He's talking about copying the R&D work of a company to undercut their product on price and prevent them from recouping the cost of their R&D work (China and Zynga are somewhat notorious for this). At no point does he universally condemn all free riding, which can be a good thing in some cases as you point out. I'd say he's applying accounting in a fairly laser-like fashion to address a specific issue and you're the one who lacks focus.
Considering that even the smallest class of these containers weighs two tons when *empty*, I don't think you and your jet-ski are hauling it home anytime soon.
I think it's practical to weigh each one on the crane lifting it and if it's more than maybe 3-4% over the declared weight you don't ship it. Especially if failure to do so can cause a $250 million whoopsie.