Well, my thought was this: If they leave the info unguarded, they run the risk of someone stumbling on to the data and sharing their work. If they put effective authentication methods in place on the data, then they have established a definitive link between themselves and the data. They can claim innocence if by some stroke of bad luck they are being monitored and are caught logging in, but not if they use their personal GPG key to authenticate.
I would certainly agree that the mere fact that cell phones can potentially be annoying is justification for blocking the signal. Bah! Curse you, lack of proper sleep! I would agree that it is not justification.
I have also not had many problems with cell phone users in movie theaters, and I would certainly agree that the mere fact that cell phones can potentially be annoying is justification for blocking the signal.
However, I would assert that the justification for a movie theater being allowed to use methods that prevent cell phones from working properly in the theaters is that the movie theaters themselves are private property, and thus the owner can set the terms and restrictions of their usage. My bet? Your movie theater's manager would not choose to spend the extra money to do so, and neither would the managers of the theaters I frequent, because it's not enough of a problem to warrant spending the money; I do believe that they would be well withing their rights to do so if they had the desire.
hink of the mosquito, for instance. Those little guys essentially spend their lives following subtle chemical gradients to find their food sources and then swarm around them. Modify the chemical gradients they care about, dump a whole lot of them out of a plane, and you have a distributed sensor swarm that'll look for just about anything that has a scent.
The prospect that makes me nervous is what we'll do when we want to go beyond recon/search/surveillance type roles. Conventional weapons aren't going to scale down all that well. Chemical and biological weapons will. Even better, if we're modifying or genetically engineering mosquitoes that will hunt different scents, why not modify the numbing agent they already produce naturally to become more lethal?
these bugs and critters are only going to last a few minutes If the scenario is that you're trying to find out what is inside a building before you determine if it needs to be raided, why is that a problem?
But it is your responsibility to disable the phones of rude and obnoxious people? No, I think it's the option of a movie theater to do so in order to provide a more enjoyable movie experience that doesn't require me to hope the other viewers remember to silence their phones.
I'd rather get tasered than [...] punched You've never been Tased. I don't know of a single person who has been Tased and then stated "That wasn't so bad, better than a punch in the stomach!" The mechanism of a stun gun or taser is to flood your nervous system with enough electricity at a sufficiently high voltage in order to cause extreme pain and muscle spasms. The problem is that people look at someone after they have been Tased, see no mark, and correlate that with "couldn't have been that bad, didn't even leave a mark!" I'd bet that you're taking the recovery period of a punch to the face into consideration, and not the instant of pain itself.
That's not true. If the subject is bound hand and foot, and gagged, perhaps. Otherwise, if only handcuffs have been used, they can still be kicking officers, biting, drawing blood, etc. If they don't settle down, a taser is perfectly reasonable. Are you high? "If only handcuffs have been used and a suspect is trying to kick an officer, what oh what are they do do except electrocute someone?"... Show me an able-bodied trained professional who can't deal with a handcuffed person. There's not one out there. Repeat after me: the Taser is a weapon used to control a situation that is potentially dangerous to the officer or to civilians. The Taser is not a device of convenience. Let's go back to the handcuffed suspect (keep in mind that just being in handcuffs is only a sign that a person has been accused of a crime, not an indicator of guilt). If an officer is so concerned with getting a one legged kick from a suspect that has handcuffs on, they need to not be on the streets 'protecting' anyone. If a suspect is trying to kick them then they should back up. Get out of range of the suspects legs; the suspect isn't going anywhere and will eventually run out of steam. At all times, act as if a suspect is going to bite you; keep hands away from the mouth. The problem with officers using the Taser is exactly the one that you seem to have; the person who is about to be tased is still a person. Yeah, it's more convenient to fire metal darts into the skin of someone and then pass electrical current through the person, causing muscle spasming and incapacitation. That doesn't mean that it's an acceptable alternative to hard work or common sense.
Also, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a case where the officer doesn't first say, "Settle down or you are going to be tased." Often this warning is issued repeatedly before action is taken. At that point, the use of the taser was clearly the coice of the belligerant individual, and I don't feel bad if they pretty much choose to be tased. Let's go back to my original question: are you high? Because there's a non-trivial chance that the suspect is. Being drunk and unruly does not equate to choosing to be Tasered by an officer that does not care to break a sweat on the job.
In the case of a highway barrier, I imagine we would say that the cause of death was the car's impact with the barrier, regardless of who is at fault. Pedantically, we'd actually probably say that the cause of death was the secondary impact of the victim's body with the interior of the car.
Meanwhile, in -my- Ohio hometown, the public school system is fiscally doomed while still paying out enormous sums to Microsoft, IBM, Apple. I'm sincerely not trying to imply you're being politically apathetic, but have you actually tried to influence the town's school practices? You seem to be pretty good with words; citing examples of other countries that are adopting open source, the advantages of open source, and the like actually is the sort of thing that is liable to gather interest at a school board meeting. If you volunteered or offered a civilly discounted rate for helping to implement that sort of a system you'd be surprised at how quickly you can become influential in your community and serve as an example to nearby schools...
The exoskeleton doesn't make much sense, at least in my opinion, for front line operations or at least not it its present form. You said it all right there. Look at the capabilities of the exoskeleton; it allows the user to lift massive amounts of weight with very little fatigue. My uniformed belief is that the front line guy don't particularly need those features. However, the back-end and supply line uses are killer: imagine the efficiency gains on an aircraft carrier when missiles and the like are attached to the plane by a single crewman who uses his exo-hands to place the cargo with great precision.
I know it's a joke and all that, but they only use gravity to right themselves when they fall over. So, if there's no longer any concept of 'up', what does it matter if the bot can't tell where up is?
Being grumpy is fun and all, but is solving the 'clean room problem' really all that difficult to envision? Popular Science was on this topic quite some time ago (the startup in the article was experimenting with algae as the producer of fat). From PopSci:
Sears's solution was inspired by the most humble of kitchen implements, the Ziploc bag. Clear plastic sacks, he realized, would let in enough light to help the algae thrive yet prevent unwanted species from invading. The crux of his innovation is his design for a full-scale algae "reactor." Two 350-foot-long parallel tracks about three feet apart hold the bags in place. Custom-built rollers occasionally squeeze them like tubes of toothpaste, circulating the algae; a current gives them the intermittent sun exposure they need to flourish. Once the algae is grown, a refinery extracts its oil and converts it to biodiesel.
Especially if the workers were penalized for time spent not concentrating. Am I the only one to think that this would be disastrous for the workplace? With the 'I need a job so I put up with X' attitude of most of the low to mid-range earners in the US, can you imagine what would happen?
Bob, we're going to have to let you go. Now, I know what you're going to say, and yes, you have produced more work units than any other employee this quarter, and they have been of acceptable quality, but you simply weren't paying enough attention.
Now offering the WorkAlert 2010! This revolutionary 'assistance hat', or 'asshat', can provide your employees with negative feedback (via a small electronic shock) when they doze on the job!
disclaimer: I'm an atheist. (Possibly leaning towards unconventional theism, but I digress...)
My favorite writing on the matter has to be the stuff that came from Kant himself. He very eloquently addresses this problem: Does morality have an abstract basis because of some deity or because of rational logic? His solution was to try to examine where logic 'came from'. I'm of the opinion that logic doesn't come from any divine inspiration, and that it's just an intellectual ability we have. But, that only answers the HOW and not the WHY; what is it precisely that makes 2+2=4? It would seem that logic is a consequence of the underlying structure and rules governing reality (as we know it). So, if one then treats those underlying rules as if it was a deity in itself then one can see how rational morality can be said to be grounded in the 'rules of the universe' aka 'God's will', while at the same time being a product of mankind's intellect and intuition.
Kant was of the opinion that the rules of logic represent the will of the creator of the universe, as they seem to be the only things that exist simply because they have to.
Sounds great! PayPal should just ignore the needs of the majority of their user base and focus on the wants of the power users. Realistically though, you need to realize that the value of your PayPal account is diminished when people you do transactions with have to question whether or not you're the legitimate owner of the account or a casualty of phishing. What good is it if you are 100% safe with your computing habits, but everyone you try to by things from or sell things to has gotten phished, resulting in you losing money.
I'm sorry, I was being imprecise. Of course anyone at all can have intelligent input on politics; political systems ought not to be too complex for anyone to understand. Similarly, anyone can have an opinion about the influence of art and science on society.
I was trying to reference the specific area of political philosophy, as defined by the writing of Rousseau, John Locke, Hobbes, Hegel, and the like. I was not trying to be elitist by implying that only LA school graduates can have informed opinions; I was trying to illustrate that LA schools can provide a student with concrete factual knowledge in other fields that may not be relevant to the tech field being studied but are still relevant when trying to understand the way the world is.
By the way, it passes by the earth in 2027 on friday the 13th. If it hit's it will hit in the pacific ocean. So California may get wet. The energy content is said to be 26,000 Hiroshimas which is not that much but recent calculation suggest is more than enough to darken the earth. Woah woah woah, 26,000 Hiroshimas? This is supposed to be a scientific forum. What's that in libraries of Congress?
It was pedantic, anal, and I stand by it. Now write me a paper that compares and contrasts the views of Kant's ideas of ethics and the ethics of a common gerbil.
Well, we do them here in the US. Those are the places where we put the people who have spent their education getting really really good at doing the things that the industry wants them to be good at doing, as opposed to discovering how to become a leader themselves.
"So can I as I am intelligent human being with an interest in life."
Do you feel that Rousseau's view of the state as the manifestation of public interest is accurate? If so do you feel that corporate bodies fit under the idea of private interest, or do they serve the public interest as well?
"Likewise."
Good! I agree with this statement 100%. You are obviously a well balanced individual!
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There is little to nothing in art history that would have helped me discover a love for cryptography or distributed programming. What's more is that I would have been bored as hell learning about it."
Then you're lucky enough to have been correct about what you initially thought you wanted to study; most people are not. The point of taking some unrelated course is not to have that course teach you why you like the other thing you're learning but rather to have the opportunity to realize you enjoy learning about that unrelated course.
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Oh right, you yanks are just late developers, high school being roughly the equivalent of our kindergartens. I always forget that."
Then I would argue that you Europeans are having much too much sex in your kindergartens. Regardless, the OP was asking about advice relating to the US educational and employment systems. Whatever you tea drinkers do over there on your closed circuit camera systems is not particularly relevant here.
I would argue that the universities in Europe are suited to fit the needs of Europeans. I am a graduating senior at the University of Tennessee (now with electric lights!), and I'm glad that I attended this school over Georiga Tech. I was very hesitant to attend GT after hearing the campus tour guide go on and on about "Don't worry if you don't know WHAT kind of engineer you want to be, plenty of time to decide!"
The liberal arts school has given me a very well rounded resume, and there are several recruiters that have said they really perked up when they saw I was a philosophy minor. Yes, if you want to 'get the big money in software engineering' a tech-only school might be the one for you. Enjoy sitting in a cubicle and living out the Office Space life. I've gotten a very good education in CS areas like theory of computation, language theory, reinforcement learning for artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, and Markov chains and I've taken classes that taught the languages Python, Perl, C, C++, Java, and assembly. Plus, I can have an intelligent conversation about political theory and the merits of the arts and sciences as they relate to society. The best part? I actually enjoyed my education.
A well rounded education allows a person to discover exactly what it is about a particular subject that they enjoy doing, not just how to apply a method to a problem. There's nothing wrong with immersing yourself in a specific subject; that's why I'm going to graduate school.
I know you were making a joke, but that's something I see as a very legitimate problem. If you look at all the countries of the world, it seems like all the superpowers are making distinct progress in the direction of fascism and authoritarianism. When you combine that with the growing trend of international cooperation to capture terrorists and criminals, to what country should we flee when ours becomes a police state?
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Well, my thought was this: If they leave the info unguarded, they run the risk of someone stumbling on to the data and sharing their work. If they put effective authentication methods in place on the data, then they have established a definitive link between themselves and the data. They can claim innocence if by some stroke of bad luck they are being monitored and are caught logging in, but not if they use their personal GPG key to authenticate.
If we can just hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Jackpot! -- The Zapper
I have also not had many problems with cell phone users in movie theaters, and I would certainly agree that the mere fact that cell phones can potentially be annoying is justification for blocking the signal.
However, I would assert that the justification for a movie theater being allowed to use methods that prevent cell phones from working properly in the theaters is that the movie theaters themselves are private property, and thus the owner can set the terms and restrictions of their usage. My bet? Your movie theater's manager would not choose to spend the extra money to do so, and neither would the managers of the theaters I frequent, because it's not enough of a problem to warrant spending the money; I do believe that they would be well withing their rights to do so if they had the desire.
I know it's a joke and all that, but they only use gravity to right themselves when they fall over. So, if there's no longer any concept of 'up', what does it matter if the bot can't tell where up is?
Now offering the WorkAlert 2010! This revolutionary 'assistance hat', or 'asshat', can provide your employees with negative feedback (via a small electronic shock) when they doze on the job!
disclaimer: I'm an atheist. (Possibly leaning towards unconventional theism, but I digress...)
My favorite writing on the matter has to be the stuff that came from Kant himself. He very eloquently addresses this problem: Does morality have an abstract basis because of some deity or because of rational logic? His solution was to try to examine where logic 'came from'. I'm of the opinion that logic doesn't come from any divine inspiration, and that it's just an intellectual ability we have. But, that only answers the HOW and not the WHY; what is it precisely that makes 2+2=4? It would seem that logic is a consequence of the underlying structure and rules governing reality (as we know it). So, if one then treats those underlying rules as if it was a deity in itself then one can see how rational morality can be said to be grounded in the 'rules of the universe' aka 'God's will', while at the same time being a product of mankind's intellect and intuition.
Kant was of the opinion that the rules of logic represent the will of the creator of the universe, as they seem to be the only things that exist simply because they have to.
Sounds great! PayPal should just ignore the needs of the majority of their user base and focus on the wants of the power users. Realistically though, you need to realize that the value of your PayPal account is diminished when people you do transactions with have to question whether or not you're the legitimate owner of the account or a casualty of phishing. What good is it if you are 100% safe with your computing habits, but everyone you try to by things from or sell things to has gotten phished, resulting in you losing money.
Four boxes, you forgot the jury box.
However, I'm not too reassured when I look at the quality and quantity of my ammo box compared with the ammo boxes that it would have to overcome...
I'm sorry, I was being imprecise. Of course anyone at all can have intelligent input on politics; political systems ought not to be too complex for anyone to understand. Similarly, anyone can have an opinion about the influence of art and science on society.
I was trying to reference the specific area of political philosophy, as defined by the writing of Rousseau, John Locke, Hobbes, Hegel, and the like. I was not trying to be elitist by implying that only LA school graduates can have informed opinions; I was trying to illustrate that LA schools can provide a student with concrete factual knowledge in other fields that may not be relevant to the tech field being studied but are still relevant when trying to understand the way the world is.
It was pedantic, anal, and I stand by it. Now write me a paper that compares and contrasts the views of Kant's ideas of ethics and the ethics of a common gerbil.
"We don't do cubicles in the UK. They suck."
Well, we do them here in the US. Those are the places where we put the people who have spent their education getting really really good at doing the things that the industry wants them to be good at doing, as opposed to discovering how to become a leader themselves.
"So can I as I am intelligent human being with an interest in life."
Do you feel that Rousseau's view of the state as the manifestation of public interest is accurate? If so do you feel that corporate bodies fit under the idea of private interest, or do they serve the public interest as well?
"Likewise."
Good! I agree with this statement 100%. You are obviously a well balanced individual!
" There is little to nothing in art history that would have helped me discover a love for cryptography or distributed programming. What's more is that I would have been bored as hell learning about it."
Then you're lucky enough to have been correct about what you initially thought you wanted to study; most people are not. The point of taking some unrelated course is not to have that course teach you why you like the other thing you're learning but rather to have the opportunity to realize you enjoy learning about that unrelated course.
" Oh right, you yanks are just late developers, high school being roughly the equivalent of our kindergartens. I always forget that."
Then I would argue that you Europeans are having much too much sex in your kindergartens. Regardless, the OP was asking about advice relating to the US educational and employment systems. Whatever you tea drinkers do over there on your closed circuit camera systems is not particularly relevant here.
I would argue that the universities in Europe are suited to fit the needs of Europeans. I am a graduating senior at the University of Tennessee (now with electric lights!), and I'm glad that I attended this school over Georiga Tech. I was very hesitant to attend GT after hearing the campus tour guide go on and on about "Don't worry if you don't know WHAT kind of engineer you want to be, plenty of time to decide!"
The liberal arts school has given me a very well rounded resume, and there are several recruiters that have said they really perked up when they saw I was a philosophy minor. Yes, if you want to 'get the big money in software engineering' a tech-only school might be the one for you. Enjoy sitting in a cubicle and living out the Office Space life. I've gotten a very good education in CS areas like theory of computation, language theory, reinforcement learning for artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, and Markov chains and I've taken classes that taught the languages Python, Perl, C, C++, Java, and assembly. Plus, I can have an intelligent conversation about political theory and the merits of the arts and sciences as they relate to society. The best part? I actually enjoyed my education.
A well rounded education allows a person to discover exactly what it is about a particular subject that they enjoy doing, not just how to apply a method to a problem. There's nothing wrong with immersing yourself in a specific subject; that's why I'm going to graduate school.
I know you were making a joke, but that's something I see as a very legitimate problem. If you look at all the countries of the world, it seems like all the superpowers are making distinct progress in the direction of fascism and authoritarianism. When you combine that with the growing trend of international cooperation to capture terrorists and criminals, to what country should we flee when ours becomes a police state?