Actually those experiments have been done and in every case a patrolling officer prevents crimes (traffic or otherwise). These experiments have happened in numerous locations and started back before radar speed detection was prevalent. Here is a very recent example, but you can find literally thousands of these studies if you look.
The hiding officer being able to "catch" people collects more revenue for the municipality they work for, and is therefor preferred by those municipalities.
Have you ever gone to the city to mentor kids in schools? I have. The world is a pretty bleak place for most of them, with no visible future. The best they can hope for is to land a big dope deal young. A few want to be "rappers" without understanding what the life style really is. It's easy for us to scoff them from the outside. We have opportunity, at least to some degree. We have people that tell us to go to college and get ahead. We see success around us in working people. A kid with a single mom working 2 minimum wage jobs does not have those things. They are lucky to get a pop-tart for breakfast.
Before you mention it, yes there are royal fuck ups that abuse the system. Systems like welfare need to be overhauled. The reality is that when welfare is better income than they can get working at a job, people will sit on Welfare.
Way to toss out a metric ass ton of appeal to emotion argument with almost no factual grounds. The majority of murders solved and prevented by Stop and Frisk have been of black victims. Prove it! There are no such stats. 1 in 100 stop and frisks find a weapon which is extremely loosely defined. How many of those were pocket knives or guns is not in the reports that I have seen. There are no stats showing unsolved murders were magically solved by these policies. The murder rate is down, but do you credit stop and frisk or no large sodas to fight over? Either is just as good.
Sure, I will agree that there are big problems in certain areas but lets look at it from a different perspective.
When a person sees the only way to get ahead or survive in society is to turn to crime, is that their fault or societies fault? Unemployment rates are a huge indicator that society is failing. If a person has to choose between working 2 minimum wage jobs to keep a roof over their head and selling dope and making enough money to buy a car and have a roof, you really believe that they are at fault? What happened to the land of opportunity?
What makes better legal sense for the population? To pass laws criminalizing the glamorization of immoral behavior or to punish kids that try and become what they see and hear? If you look at the horrible evolution of "entertainment" I think the answer is obvious. Kids as young as 4 are shown worshiping Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga on TV (prime time on NBC and ABC). Miley Cyrus's latest pre-teen targeted songs reference cocaine, masturbation, and bisexual "play". 20 years ago, I would have blamed the parents more than entertainment. Today, how much choice does a parent have when all entertainment has become occultism, drug and alcohol oriented, violence oriented, and/or promotes promiscuity? The Amish are not even safe with entertainment promoting Rumspringa as the "norm" that every Amish teen should be doing.
What makes better sense for society, to have police stop and harass 99 innocent people (that is their given stat) to find one criminal or to catch criminals in the act? The fourth amendment is very clear that the former is illegal. The latter causes resentment, and hatred to to the legal professionals. I'm sure a few cops get into the business because power trips, but the legal system should not be pandering to those people. They should pander to the people willing to defend society and uphold the constitution.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Seriously, what part of that is hard to grasp? If there is so much crime in an area, why not hire police and ask the neighborhood to help resolve issues without grabbing people and violating a basic human right?
Let me ask a pointed question to drive that thought home. What prevents more traffic violations? An Officer in the open visible for everyone to see, or an officer hiding in the bushes with a radar gun?
The obvious answer is that the visible officer will prevent violations. If you see the cop and don't slow down, you deserve the ticket. Prevention is the primary purpose of the law, not punishment after the fact. It is because of that philosophy that we have the right to a fair trial and are presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
It's a set of broken logic that gets you to the point of believing something like stop and frisk is okay. Would you have no problems with it if it was your neighborhood and they were stopping everyone of your ethnicity and preventing them from going to work? Home from work? Going to visit grandma, or help some kids in poverty?
Just remember, for every one story of the cops busting someone with a weapon (which is intentionally loosely defined by the NYPD) there are 99 stories of people being stopped for doing nothing except for being born Black or Hispanic. I agree with the judge that the policy is not acceptable, even if it's 1 innocent in 100. The real solution is to hire more police, show people a better life style, and give them opportunities in society.
If the only method a person has for survival is to break the law, then society has failed and not that person.
So you answer the point I made about you attempting to look intelligent by resorting to ad homimen speculation, with another ad hominem and speculation. That is called circular logic. Do you really enjoy repeatedly failing in basic critical thinking skills? Do you really wish to keep advertising that you can not debate beyond simple name calling?
Maybe you can call a Junior High and ask to hang out with the debate team. They would not let you debate with such immature tactics, but it's possible that you learn something. Then again you may be on that list that protects children from you.
Oh, and no your dad is not bigger than my dad, so save your immature comments.
Well, to be fair, you're offering very little in return as well. What is your answer to Schneier's, "I have one message to the executives of those companies: fight."
I happen to agree with what was stated, so why would I add to the article? I have been trying to wake people up for years myself with varying degrees of success. I have gotten more people to read Plato's Republic than any University I know of. The reason for that is because I believe that Socrates had a tremendous amount of things correct and his work is extremely relevant to today. If you can understand what Socrates was telling you in Plato's Republic, you begin to unravel the propaganda that has been keeping you in the dark.
Here are some pertinent questions for our current state of affairs, and this is not just in the US but across the globe.
If you sit idle, what changes?
If you believe you are defeated, what changes?
If you get lost in fallacy and propaganda living in delusion, what changes?
All of those questions are answered with the same thing. Nothing! Nothing gets better, and nothing changes.
I believe that we have spent too long thinking it's other people's problems to deal with. There is no time to dump these things off on their children like my parents did with me. I often contemplate whether I'm making things out to be much worse than they are. Perhaps with some things I am, but when it comes to me being able to ensure my child has a future? The US is 17Trillion dollars in cash debt, and depending on how you look at assets and interest this debt is 70trillion dollars. How is that a future? No country can sustain themselves on that level of debt! Whether the collapse is engineered or the result of incompetence or greed does not make any difference. What happens when the economic collapse happens? 20 years ago, I knew debt was a problem. Seeing how that debt has increased exponentially in that time is frightening.
All of us that see the problems need to be Paul Revere and wake up the troops. We also need to start demanding change and reform, replacing those that fail to act in the interests of their citizens by what ever force is necessary.
An interesting point you seem to believe the corruption is only in the US. The documents released by Snowden show that this is a global collusion between Australia, England, Germany, etc.. etc... It's not just the USA that is done and over if we don't take a stand. Some may fall sooner than others, but everyone will fall if we don't act.
Drop this idea of the "government" as some evil alien entity with unknown motives.
I don't think people blame Government, I believe they blame Politicians. To deny that politicians are having a huge hand in how things are playing out is lunacy. Look at the long list of Senators and Congressmen in both parties that want Snowden dead for leaking details of spying.
Why does everyone forget the warnings about the Military Industrial Complex?
Remember JFK's words regarding the MIC? The people he was warning us about have been running the USA since he was assassinated. As with above, you can't deny the Politician's involvement in the MIC or Government agencies working to subvert our Government. The NSA is funded, directed, managed, and utilized by the Politicians in power.
Some say never attribute to malice what could be explained by incompetence. I say never attribute to incompetence what can be explained by greed.
Excusing the politicians with fallacy is not helpful. The building is on fire and we must put the fire out. Arson investigators can't search a burning house!
Exactly! This is why 1 tablet that is so awesome people start to talk about it should be the focus. I'm not surprised at MS's strategy mind you, they are known for brute force bullying and not finesse when it comes to marketing and tactics. I'm more wondering why their board continues to support those tactics when they have cost MS a whole lot of market share and profits.
This subject of the article is not new, we have seen similar information for years. The same can be said with Snowden, he was just the most recent in a list of whistle blowers warning you of what's happening.
I agree with the articles point that you are not safe. I also agree that people fool themselves into thinking that if they play on the team they will be protected. Those points are not new, and not unique to TFA either. I have relatives that were young Germans in the 30s so hear from first hand accounts how "team" players were treated. In addition to personal experiences, I read history books which are full of examples of how there is no safety in being a "team" player and how much danger there is in a Government collecting this much data on citizens.
You dismiss the article because of the source, yet offer no counter to their position or opinion. The best you can do is toss out a Red Herring/Ad hominem fallacy to dismiss the thoughts in the article? Not that I would be surprised, this is/. after all.
I assume you meant "how do I come to such a conclusion?" because I never stated my opinion was factual.
Speculation based on events both historical and recent. It's interesting how much work DARPA and the NSA have done to assist certain companies attain certain goals, and how those goals have turned into tools used by politicians and the self proclaimed elites.
In addition, I pointed out a logical business direction for use of sensors on trash bins. "track when they are full". You could add a list of other business intelligent related sensors that would benefit a business and not a Government. "Tipped over", "Unauthorized User submitting trash", and "On Fire" would make much more sense for society as well as have obvious business benefits. What purpose for a business is there in tracking everyone's cell phone location? The simple answer is that there is none. In fact it is so difficult to invent a reason that the UK has disbanded the program.
Microsoft was never known for tablets, they were known for desktop and server systems. I would agree with the market strategy if they were early adopters, but they were pretty late to the game. This puts them in the same spot as they were with Zune.
I'm not saying that it's impossible, but being late (years behind) the competition means that they should sit with 1 tablet and make it so awesome that iPad users claim it's competition. Trying to dump out 3 Surface devices without any demand is another failure in the pipes.
Let me ask another question to point out why 3 tablets really really bad. What do consumers want in an iPad or Kindle? Stability and Reliability are what matters the most to the consumers. With some, there is also the status of owning an "i" device, but not most. With an unproven device, MS should be treating this like Amazon and Kindle. Simple at first to gain consumer trust and market share, later expand to various features.
What MS is trying to do it appears is show that PCs are no longer their focus. This from a company where PCs are supposed to be their bread and butter. If they treated a tablet as a compliment instead of a replacement it would make much more sense. I would agree that many consumers will replace, but a huge number will remain on PCs for increased performance and options. Tablets can replace laptops much easier than desktops.
Subject says it all. How was this allowed to happen? Garbage bins don't need to other people, they need to track when they are full and need to be emptied. I'm sure that this stems from a Government funding program in a black budget that the people of London (and other areas of the UK) have no idea they are paying for.
I do realize that the US probably has similar or worse programs that we are not yet aware of. I know they have been working on billboard advertising to track people and believe it has been implemented in NYC to some extent. We, all of the free people, need to put an end to this! Nothing good can come from this level of tracking people!
To attack my signature due to a title is a lie based on speculation. You don't know me personally or professionally. You do not know what my degrees, titles, or certificates are. You use the title as the only point of attack against my arguments. That is fallacy 101 which indicates that you either missed out on basic Philosophy or forgot what you learned. My speculation is the former and not the latter due to irrationality in major points you made regarding science and that fallacy being your repeated reply when ever we have had any form of dialogue.
I have an exceptional memory, and without going back to threads let me give an example of your logic.
Refused to review information regarding plane crashes because "it dishonors the dead" to do so.
Claimed that there are no pictures of plane crashes even after being presented with a complete list of every aviation accident in history (which was not my own list, but a Wiki article with links to FAA information). Later you claimed it dishonors the dead to review facts so you refused.
Claimed that titanium can be melted by JP4, claimed that steel can be melted by JP4. Denies all rational explanation since the melting points of both are in materials guides. I guess you don't own a materials guide, which is a basic requirement of an Engineer (that you are not).
Claimed that titanium can disintegrate due to impact at relatively low velocity, ask an Engineer to simulate that problem for you.
Do you perhaps throw out MSCE because that is what you are, and you are defensive? Are you so insecure in your own abilities and knowledge that attempting to offend others is the only way you can feel superior?
Don't bother replying, I won't waste further time on you.
You are not issuing personal attacks? Wholly shit dude, fallacy is pretty easy to spot and you started immediately with ad hominem and fabrication. I do understand that you have difficulty with the English language and comprehending what you read, but I will point out that the whole thread is visible for review. If you attack someone's argument based on something other than the argument, it is a minor fallacy at a minimum. I should not have to explain to an educated person why attacking someones credentials is an ad homimen (It should be in the Wiki page, though it may fall under specific title). Then again, you don't seem to be very well educated. Further, you have no visible desire to improve yourself as you repeat the same things over and over. 1. Fallacy+Fabrication => 2. claim facts don't exist, repeat from step 1.
Quite frankly you bore me intellectually. Your opinion is not impressive, it's baseless and speculative at best. If you understood the basics of debate it would at least be entertaining, but you don't understand the basics. Review this document for starters. If you refuse to adhere to the basics kindly go fuck yourself. Yes, I do realize that is a derogatory and offensive suggestion so don't bother replying and whining about it. No, I don't expect you to actually read anything including your own words because you seem to have falsely convinced yourself that knowing the term "fallacy" without understanding it's universal application makes you smart.
In summary, I am unimpressed by your irrational comments and uninspired to make any changes based on your irrational position.
I believe you failed to read the most important part of the message. Your fallacy and fabrication does noes not change any of my statements. In fact, your fallacy and fabrication discredit your claim of being a professional engineer. As you may suspect, your inability to read and comprehend simple statements increases my suspicion that you are mentally deficient.
I honestly pay very little attention to people's signatures so can't answer the question. I can assure you that I would not be offended by anyone's signature if they did profess a certificate, degree, or title. For example, it would be simple to determine if someone claiming to be a RHCE was in fact a RHCE since I have that title too if I have doubts I know what evidence I can use to determine if it was factual. If someone claimed to be a CCNE and was discussing networking I may pay more attention to their comments regarding networking, until such point as they gave erroneous data or demonstrated a lack of knowledge a CCNE should have.
You are not an Engineer by your own claims, though you pretend to be offended on behalf of engineers that you know. This indicates that you have a mental deficiency.
I will point out that you are the only person that has ever complained about my signature. I assume that the reason you complain has little to do with the signature, and everything to do with me demonstrating that your beliefs regarding certain events in history are based in fallacy and irrational arguments. You have refused to review presented facts and called facts lies in the past in order to protect your beliefs.
In summary, I am unimpressed by your irrational comments and uninspired to make any changes based on your irrational position.
Nixon should have been jailed for the rest of his life for Perjury, Treason, Racketeering, Fraud, and wire tapping (at a minimum). Him resigning is _not_ a penatalty because he would have been fired (impeached) if he did not resign.
To make a parallel example: A bank manager steels a million dollars from the bank's vault. If they resign, have they paid a "penalty"? Of course the answer is "NO". They would have been fired if they had not resigned, so there is no penalty. If you truly believe that Nixon had a penalty you should get your broken thinker into the shop for repairs.
I base my statements on 25 years of working in IT. There is a huge demand for start up companies to hire initially, and once the systems are up and stable the majority are gone. This happens in Silicon Vally all the time, so often that it would be disingenuous to claim it was "regularly done". Migrations are the same way. Bring in a ton of people, map everything and write tools, and half of those people are gone. A few people stay for the actual migration, but most are gone before a move. This happens constantly also, look at any company moving from DC to DC or service to service.
, but I suspect that the correct answer is properly vetting the admins and putting proper controls in place.
When dealing with moral issues such as spying, it is impossible to properly vet people. Even the guy that says "Yeah, no problem. I can rat people out" will change their mind given the right circumstances. It may take snooping on an obvious Grandma emailing their grandchild, or someone that has a similar political thought to themselves. Morality is a funny thing. It's funny how if someone gets sick or has a life changing event (such as a relative in an auto-accident) they suddenly believe more in God and worry more about morality.
If you believe that there is a single motive for DARPA to be working extremey pretty hard on combat AI, you may be gravely mistaken.
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Actually those experiments have been done and in every case a patrolling officer prevents crimes (traffic or otherwise). These experiments have happened in numerous locations and started back before radar speed detection was prevalent. Here is a very recent example, but you can find literally thousands of these studies if you look.
The hiding officer being able to "catch" people collects more revenue for the municipality they work for, and is therefor preferred by those municipalities.
Have you ever gone to the city to mentor kids in schools? I have. The world is a pretty bleak place for most of them, with no visible future. The best they can hope for is to land a big dope deal young. A few want to be "rappers" without understanding what the life style really is. It's easy for us to scoff them from the outside. We have opportunity, at least to some degree. We have people that tell us to go to college and get ahead. We see success around us in working people. A kid with a single mom working 2 minimum wage jobs does not have those things. They are lucky to get a pop-tart for breakfast.
Before you mention it, yes there are royal fuck ups that abuse the system. Systems like welfare need to be overhauled. The reality is that when welfare is better income than they can get working at a job, people will sit on Welfare.
Way to toss out a metric ass ton of appeal to emotion argument with almost no factual grounds. The majority of murders solved and prevented by Stop and Frisk have been of black victims. Prove it! There are no such stats. 1 in 100 stop and frisks find a weapon which is extremely loosely defined. How many of those were pocket knives or guns is not in the reports that I have seen. There are no stats showing unsolved murders were magically solved by these policies. The murder rate is down, but do you credit stop and frisk or no large sodas to fight over? Either is just as good.
Sure, I will agree that there are big problems in certain areas but lets look at it from a different perspective.
When a person sees the only way to get ahead or survive in society is to turn to crime, is that their fault or societies fault? Unemployment rates are a huge indicator that society is failing. If a person has to choose between working 2 minimum wage jobs to keep a roof over their head and selling dope and making enough money to buy a car and have a roof, you really believe that they are at fault? What happened to the land of opportunity?
What makes better legal sense for the population? To pass laws criminalizing the glamorization of immoral behavior or to punish kids that try and become what they see and hear? If you look at the horrible evolution of "entertainment" I think the answer is obvious. Kids as young as 4 are shown worshiping Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga on TV (prime time on NBC and ABC). Miley Cyrus's latest pre-teen targeted songs reference cocaine, masturbation, and bisexual "play". 20 years ago, I would have blamed the parents more than entertainment. Today, how much choice does a parent have when all entertainment has become occultism, drug and alcohol oriented, violence oriented, and/or promotes promiscuity? The Amish are not even safe with entertainment promoting Rumspringa as the "norm" that every Amish teen should be doing.
What makes better sense for society, to have police stop and harass 99 innocent people (that is their given stat) to find one criminal or to catch criminals in the act? The fourth amendment is very clear that the former is illegal. The latter causes resentment, and hatred to to the legal professionals. I'm sure a few cops get into the business because power trips, but the legal system should not be pandering to those people. They should pander to the people willing to defend society and uphold the constitution.
A good point and often overlooked issues when these discussions take place.
What will rise from the ashes is a new world order
No, that is what causes the ashes to begin with unless we act to turn the tide.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Seriously, what part of that is hard to grasp? If there is so much crime in an area, why not hire police and ask the neighborhood to help resolve issues without grabbing people and violating a basic human right?
Let me ask a pointed question to drive that thought home. What prevents more traffic violations? An Officer in the open visible for everyone to see, or an officer hiding in the bushes with a radar gun?
The obvious answer is that the visible officer will prevent violations. If you see the cop and don't slow down, you deserve the ticket. Prevention is the primary purpose of the law, not punishment after the fact. It is because of that philosophy that we have the right to a fair trial and are presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
It's a set of broken logic that gets you to the point of believing something like stop and frisk is okay. Would you have no problems with it if it was your neighborhood and they were stopping everyone of your ethnicity and preventing them from going to work? Home from work? Going to visit grandma, or help some kids in poverty?
Just remember, for every one story of the cops busting someone with a weapon (which is intentionally loosely defined by the NYPD) there are 99 stories of people being stopped for doing nothing except for being born Black or Hispanic. I agree with the judge that the policy is not acceptable, even if it's 1 innocent in 100. The real solution is to hire more police, show people a better life style, and give them opportunities in society.
If the only method a person has for survival is to break the law, then society has failed and not that person.
So you answer the point I made about you attempting to look intelligent by resorting to ad homimen speculation, with another ad hominem and speculation. That is called circular logic. Do you really enjoy repeatedly failing in basic critical thinking skills? Do you really wish to keep advertising that you can not debate beyond simple name calling?
Maybe you can call a Junior High and ask to hang out with the debate team. They would not let you debate with such immature tactics, but it's possible that you learn something. Then again you may be on that list that protects children from you.
Oh, and no your dad is not bigger than my dad, so save your immature comments.
Well, to be fair, you're offering very little in return as well. What is your answer to Schneier's, "I have one message to the executives of those companies: fight."
I happen to agree with what was stated, so why would I add to the article? I have been trying to wake people up for years myself with varying degrees of success. I have gotten more people to read Plato's Republic than any University I know of. The reason for that is because I believe that Socrates had a tremendous amount of things correct and his work is extremely relevant to today. If you can understand what Socrates was telling you in Plato's Republic, you begin to unravel the propaganda that has been keeping you in the dark.
Here are some pertinent questions for our current state of affairs, and this is not just in the US but across the globe.
If you sit idle, what changes?
If you believe you are defeated, what changes?
If you get lost in fallacy and propaganda living in delusion, what changes?
All of those questions are answered with the same thing. Nothing! Nothing gets better, and nothing changes.
I believe that we have spent too long thinking it's other people's problems to deal with. There is no time to dump these things off on their children like my parents did with me. I often contemplate whether I'm making things out to be much worse than they are. Perhaps with some things I am, but when it comes to me being able to ensure my child has a future? The US is 17Trillion dollars in cash debt, and depending on how you look at assets and interest this debt is 70trillion dollars. How is that a future? No country can sustain themselves on that level of debt! Whether the collapse is engineered or the result of incompetence or greed does not make any difference. What happens when the economic collapse happens? 20 years ago, I knew debt was a problem. Seeing how that debt has increased exponentially in that time is frightening.
All of us that see the problems need to be Paul Revere and wake up the troops. We also need to start demanding change and reform, replacing those that fail to act in the interests of their citizens by what ever force is necessary.
An interesting point you seem to believe the corruption is only in the US. The documents released by Snowden show that this is a global collusion between Australia, England, Germany, etc.. etc... It's not just the USA that is done and over if we don't take a stand. Some may fall sooner than others, but everyone will fall if we don't act.
I answered this to the first person to ask, thanks for reading.
Drop this idea of the "government" as some evil alien entity with unknown motives.
I don't think people blame Government, I believe they blame Politicians. To deny that politicians are having a huge hand in how things are playing out is lunacy. Look at the long list of Senators and Congressmen in both parties that want Snowden dead for leaking details of spying.
Why does everyone forget the warnings about the Military Industrial Complex?
Remember JFK's words regarding the MIC? The people he was warning us about have been running the USA since he was assassinated. As with above, you can't deny the Politician's involvement in the MIC or Government agencies working to subvert our Government. The NSA is funded, directed, managed, and utilized by the Politicians in power.
Some say never attribute to malice what could be explained by incompetence. I say never attribute to incompetence what can be explained by greed.
Excusing the politicians with fallacy is not helpful. The building is on fire and we must put the fire out. Arson investigators can't search a burning house!
Exactly! This is why 1 tablet that is so awesome people start to talk about it should be the focus. I'm not surprised at MS's strategy mind you, they are known for brute force bullying and not finesse when it comes to marketing and tactics. I'm more wondering why their board continues to support those tactics when they have cost MS a whole lot of market share and profits.
This subject of the article is not new, we have seen similar information for years. The same can be said with Snowden, he was just the most recent in a list of whistle blowers warning you of what's happening.
I agree with the articles point that you are not safe. I also agree that people fool themselves into thinking that if they play on the team they will be protected. Those points are not new, and not unique to TFA either. I have relatives that were young Germans in the 30s so hear from first hand accounts how "team" players were treated. In addition to personal experiences, I read history books which are full of examples of how there is no safety in being a "team" player and how much danger there is in a Government collecting this much data on citizens.
You dismiss the article because of the source, yet offer no counter to their position or opinion. The best you can do is toss out a Red Herring/Ad hominem fallacy to dismiss the thoughts in the article? Not that I would be surprised, this is /. after all.
I assume you meant "how do I come to such a conclusion?" because I never stated my opinion was factual.
Speculation based on events both historical and recent. It's interesting how much work DARPA and the NSA have done to assist certain companies attain certain goals, and how those goals have turned into tools used by politicians and the self proclaimed elites.
In addition, I pointed out a logical business direction for use of sensors on trash bins. "track when they are full". You could add a list of other business intelligent related sensors that would benefit a business and not a Government. "Tipped over", "Unauthorized User submitting trash", and "On Fire" would make much more sense for society as well as have obvious business benefits. What purpose for a business is there in tracking everyone's cell phone location? The simple answer is that there is none. In fact it is so difficult to invent a reason that the UK has disbanded the program.
Microsoft was never known for tablets, they were known for desktop and server systems. I would agree with the market strategy if they were early adopters, but they were pretty late to the game. This puts them in the same spot as they were with Zune.
I'm not saying that it's impossible, but being late (years behind) the competition means that they should sit with 1 tablet and make it so awesome that iPad users claim it's competition. Trying to dump out 3 Surface devices without any demand is another failure in the pipes.
Let me ask another question to point out why 3 tablets really really bad. What do consumers want in an iPad or Kindle? Stability and Reliability are what matters the most to the consumers. With some, there is also the status of owning an "i" device, but not most. With an unproven device, MS should be treating this like Amazon and Kindle. Simple at first to gain consumer trust and market share, later expand to various features.
What MS is trying to do it appears is show that PCs are no longer their focus. This from a company where PCs are supposed to be their bread and butter. If they treated a tablet as a compliment instead of a replacement it would make much more sense. I would agree that many consumers will replace, but a huge number will remain on PCs for increased performance and options. Tablets can replace laptops much easier than desktops.
They don't need one tablet, let alone three. "Want" is the word I believe someone was looking for when writing this article.
Subject says it all. How was this allowed to happen? Garbage bins don't need to other people, they need to track when they are full and need to be emptied. I'm sure that this stems from a Government funding program in a black budget that the people of London (and other areas of the UK) have no idea they are paying for.
I do realize that the US probably has similar or worse programs that we are not yet aware of. I know they have been working on billboard advertising to track people and believe it has been implemented in NYC to some extent. We, all of the free people, need to put an end to this! Nothing good can come from this level of tracking people!
When you fail to look intelligent in your points, resort to ad hominem right?
To attack my signature due to a title is a lie based on speculation. You don't know me personally or professionally. You do not know what my degrees, titles, or certificates are. You use the title as the only point of attack against my arguments. That is fallacy 101 which indicates that you either missed out on basic Philosophy or forgot what you learned. My speculation is the former and not the latter due to irrationality in major points you made regarding science and that fallacy being your repeated reply when ever we have had any form of dialogue.
I have an exceptional memory, and without going back to threads let me give an example of your logic.
Refused to review information regarding plane crashes because "it dishonors the dead" to do so.
Claimed that there are no pictures of plane crashes even after being presented with a complete list of every aviation accident in history (which was not my own list, but a Wiki article with links to FAA information). Later you claimed it dishonors the dead to review facts so you refused.
Claimed that titanium can be melted by JP4, claimed that steel can be melted by JP4. Denies all rational explanation since the melting points of both are in materials guides. I guess you don't own a materials guide, which is a basic requirement of an Engineer (that you are not).
Claimed that titanium can disintegrate due to impact at relatively low velocity, ask an Engineer to simulate that problem for you.
Do you perhaps throw out MSCE because that is what you are, and you are defensive? Are you so insecure in your own abilities and knowledge that attempting to offend others is the only way you can feel superior?
Don't bother replying, I won't waste further time on you.
You are not issuing personal attacks? Wholly shit dude, fallacy is pretty easy to spot and you started immediately with ad hominem and fabrication. I do understand that you have difficulty with the English language and comprehending what you read, but I will point out that the whole thread is visible for review. If you attack someone's argument based on something other than the argument, it is a minor fallacy at a minimum. I should not have to explain to an educated person why attacking someones credentials is an ad homimen (It should be in the Wiki page, though it may fall under specific title). Then again, you don't seem to be very well educated. Further, you have no visible desire to improve yourself as you repeat the same things over and over. 1. Fallacy+Fabrication => 2. claim facts don't exist, repeat from step 1.
Quite frankly you bore me intellectually. Your opinion is not impressive, it's baseless and speculative at best. If you understood the basics of debate it would at least be entertaining, but you don't understand the basics. Review this document for starters. If you refuse to adhere to the basics kindly go fuck yourself. Yes, I do realize that is a derogatory and offensive suggestion so don't bother replying and whining about it. No, I don't expect you to actually read anything including your own words because you seem to have falsely convinced yourself that knowing the term "fallacy" without understanding it's universal application makes you smart.
That deserves some points, unfortunately I have none.
In summary, I am unimpressed by your irrational comments and uninspired to make any changes based on your irrational position.
I believe you failed to read the most important part of the message. Your fallacy and fabrication does noes not change any of my statements. In fact, your fallacy and fabrication discredit your claim of being a professional engineer. As you may suspect, your inability to read and comprehend simple statements increases my suspicion that you are mentally deficient.
I honestly pay very little attention to people's signatures so can't answer the question. I can assure you that I would not be offended by anyone's signature if they did profess a certificate, degree, or title. For example, it would be simple to determine if someone claiming to be a RHCE was in fact a RHCE since I have that title too if I have doubts I know what evidence I can use to determine if it was factual. If someone claimed to be a CCNE and was discussing networking I may pay more attention to their comments regarding networking, until such point as they gave erroneous data or demonstrated a lack of knowledge a CCNE should have.
You are not an Engineer by your own claims, though you pretend to be offended on behalf of engineers that you know. This indicates that you have a mental deficiency.
I will point out that you are the only person that has ever complained about my signature. I assume that the reason you complain has little to do with the signature, and everything to do with me demonstrating that your beliefs regarding certain events in history are based in fallacy and irrational arguments. You have refused to review presented facts and called facts lies in the past in order to protect your beliefs.
In summary, I am unimpressed by your irrational comments and uninspired to make any changes based on your irrational position.
Nixon should have been jailed for the rest of his life for Perjury, Treason, Racketeering, Fraud, and wire tapping (at a minimum). Him resigning is _not_ a penatalty because he would have been fired (impeached) if he did not resign.
To make a parallel example: A bank manager steels a million dollars from the bank's vault. If they resign, have they paid a "penalty"? Of course the answer is "NO". They would have been fired if they had not resigned, so there is no penalty. If you truly believe that Nixon had a penalty you should get your broken thinker into the shop for repairs.
I base my statements on 25 years of working in IT. There is a huge demand for start up companies to hire initially, and once the systems are up and stable the majority are gone. This happens in Silicon Vally all the time, so often that it would be disingenuous to claim it was "regularly done". Migrations are the same way. Bring in a ton of people, map everything and write tools, and half of those people are gone. A few people stay for the actual migration, but most are gone before a move. This happens constantly also, look at any company moving from DC to DC or service to service.
, but I suspect that the correct answer is properly vetting the admins and putting proper controls in place.
When dealing with moral issues such as spying, it is impossible to properly vet people. Even the guy that says "Yeah, no problem. I can rat people out" will change their mind given the right circumstances. It may take snooping on an obvious Grandma emailing their grandchild, or someone that has a similar political thought to themselves. Morality is a funny thing. It's funny how if someone gets sick or has a life changing event (such as a relative in an auto-accident) they suddenly believe more in God and worry more about morality.
If you believe that there is a single motive for DARPA to be working extremey pretty hard on combat AI, you may be gravely mistaken.