>You're in charge of security. You care about letting innocent people free just as much as you care about punishing the guilty and you >care about customer service, finances, and efficiency of processes. What do you do?
I hire people who are intelligent enough to realize that a substance saturated into Dr. Bronners' Soap is not going to be a very useful tool for assault. I also hire people who are responsible enough not to accuse someone of a crime (apparently the thoughtcrime of sexual assault, if you get down to it in this case). Having failed to hire intelligent and responsible people, I expect to lose MY job, and possibly go to jail for the mistake. So this particular mistake does not get made on my watch.
The difference, I expect, is that the higher authorities have NOT stepped up and assertively accepted full responsibility for this error, the County has NOT made an offer of substantial compensation to the victim for the wrongful treatment, and the people who made this mistake remain in a position to make another one.
A false arrest should be so costly to the government that does it, that the taxpayers would never allow it to happen (or could never afford to let it happen twice.)
>I know ONE vista user, and she just bought a new laptop, with vista onboard.
I know exactly two. One of them is a Microsoft recruiter, and the other just installed an MSDN version on his MacBook Pro, just so that he could learn the procedure (he has no plans to actually use it.)
Defender (in private discussion with parents): Be patient, let them stew in it as they start to realize the magnitude of the error, and we will all retire on this.
>Do you know how expensive and disruptive it is to "lock down the state all the way to Roanoke".
Marginally disruptive, considering what they have on their hands now.
I'm even more convinced of my initial analysis. They thought they had the incident under control, and were in the process of figuring out how to get their story straight for the press, when they needed to be *told* that they now had an incident on their hands that was front page global news. "Audible gasp" says it all.
I don't know how you get to "police state", and I'm not going to dignify that remark.
The people who should have been going into fifth gear on an emergency response were sitting in a conference room getting their story straight, while people were being massacred on their "watch" (not that they were actually "watching").
It's starting to look like school officials had gotten together to decide how they were going to cover their asses on what they thought was a single crime-of-passion type of incident. While they were deciding what to say to the press, they got the news all at once, all together, that *dozens* had been killed. They must have collectively realized that they had played down the incident, their only warning being an *email* urging "caution", rather than locking down the perimeter of the campus (should have locked down the state all the way to Roanoke!), and getting the helicopters up. They sat on their hands, and the "audible gasp" is their realization that their careers have all just ended, that they are responsible for the deaths of at least 30 people, and the largest incident of this kind in the history of the country has just occurred on their watch when they could have done more to prevent it, and chose not to.
There is a lot that needs to be explained. First, they need to explain why at 7:45 everyone was allowed to leave classrooms to go to 8:00 classes. Second, they need to explain when email became the sole medium for emergency alerts. Bullhorns from police cars, motorcycles, and helicopters, and activation of volunteer militia is how this is supposed to go -- where the hell are the famous Va Corps for fuck's sake? All in Iraq I presume.
>If "they" have access to my data then why cant they see that I no longer need/want any help?
They can see that you are paying someone else regularly. If they could convince you that you could have an even better deal, they win. Do you have a home mortgage? It's even worse with that.
Federal laws being violated? Arrest and convict the person in the highest level of authority who knew or should have known this was happening. Strip that person of all assets and make him spend decades in prison.
We have laws, and a penal system that exists as a deterrent for violating those laws. Bank executives don't have immunity. Do it, completely destroy a few of these people who think they are above the law because of their positions of authority and their billions of dollars, and the rest will think twice before making the same mistake.
>HDTV data only goes up to 1920x1080. Any more pixels than that and you're not adding anything to the picture quality
That's only if you are thinking as a consumer. If you are creating content for it, you can certainly have higher resolution. Why limit headroom in any domain to that of some consumer format?
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>A ~35" flatscreen isn't really that much more expensive than a ~35" CRT was a few years ago. It's not like a $200 27" CRT you get at >WalMart is going to be good anyway.
I literally had a $197 27" Panasonic TV that I bought from Walmart; just retired it because I got a Sanyo 37" flatscreen. Got the flatsceen because it has SVGA inputs and works extremely well as a computer monitor, but only cost a little more than a 19" monitor would have cost. The TV, which I just kicked down to one of the postdocs, is quite good. Best TV I ever had, as a matter of fact; and I wish I could have had a TV that good back in the Apple II days!
I sold my domain name for $10,000 a couple of months ago. No regrets at all. But what I can't figure out, looking at what the guy who bought it used it for, why it was worth that much to him. All it is now, is a page with links, mostly to things I used to host on my site for my own purposes. Just seems weird.
I cannot, and here is the reason: Any attempt at representation in graphics is going to be far less detailed, and far more tame, than my imagination makes it.
This is the reason Nethack, and roguelike games in general, have so much appeal.
Definitely my imagination makes this game more gory, and the situations the character faces in the game more desperate, than anything mere computer graphics can offer.
Others are entitled to disagree, but I don't actually consider roguelike games to be "retro" at all, and in many important ways, confer a sense of realism that cinematic graphics can never do.
And the places where Nethack's realism is weak, has more to do with issues like pathfinding, and range, distance and line of sight computation -- and as a computer scientist, I can recognize the difficulty involved in improving those things.
The beauty of Nethack is not what happens on the display - it's how you imagine what's happening between turns.
"What about the concept of disappeared do you not get. It's not that your family doesn't know that you have disappeared. It's the removal from society without a hearing."
You know someone who has been imprisoned without a hearing, or waiving the right to a hearing? You need to give a name and specific circumstances if you're making this claim.
Okay, then, if you can name someone who was designated an enemy combatant and disappeared, please do. Everyone I know of with that designation was captured on a battlefield. Granted, I realize that we *created* that battlefield, but still, you want me to accept the premise that the US is right now a police state.
>you can use an xmodmap if you're using X to map caps to ctrl
OSX has a standard feature to do this, also a very straightforward way to map Dvorak.
As for learning it, don't change your keycaps (forces you to learn it from memory), and treat it like the "Memory" solitaire game. No reason to "switch", that's just an excuse for being too lazy to learn "both."
>I don't think as many people in the world can type over 100 wpm then the people here seem to claim.
I started my IT career in the legal field. Believe it. I thought I was a fast typist until I saw what legal secretaries can do. And that was on Selectrics and Model M's.
>Nothing stops you from training yourself on the dvorak keyboard layout, but it's not going to be anywhere near optimal for scrolling.
What? If I used a Dvorak keyboard map, absolutely my VI cursor movement keys would be mapped to exactly where they are on a QWERTY map, regardless of what letters they happen to be!
Do Dvorak VI users seriously miss this?
For the record, I use vi key mapping in my editor, my shell, and gaming. Also, I'm strictly a QWERTY typist, but I can actually do OK on Dvorak and on several European keymaps when necessary.
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>You're in charge of security. You care about letting innocent people free just as much as you care about punishing the guilty and you
>care about customer service, finances, and efficiency of processes. What do you do?
I hire people who are intelligent enough to realize that a substance saturated into Dr. Bronners' Soap is not going to be a very useful tool for assault. I also hire people who are responsible enough not to accuse someone of a crime (apparently the thoughtcrime of sexual assault, if you get down to it in this case).
Having failed to hire intelligent and responsible people, I expect to lose MY job, and possibly go to jail for the mistake. So this particular mistake does not get made on my watch.
The difference, I expect, is that the higher authorities have NOT stepped up and assertively accepted full responsibility for this error, the County has NOT made an offer of substantial compensation to the victim for the wrongful treatment, and the people who made this mistake remain in a position to make another one.
A false arrest should be so costly to the government that does it, that the taxpayers would never allow it to happen (or could never afford to let it happen twice.)
>And why in Hell would anyone put Vista in a VM on top of Vista?
You get system-level debugging that is not available otherwise.
...only got caught once, barely over the limit...
In other words, "guilty."
Cost of turning justice in your favor is always high if you happen to be guilty.
>I know ONE vista user, and she just bought a new laptop, with vista onboard.
I know exactly two. One of them is a Microsoft recruiter, and the other just installed an MSDN version on his MacBook Pro, just so that he could learn the procedure (he has no plans to actually use it.)
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Defender (in private discussion with parents): Be patient, let them stew in it as they start to realize the magnitude of the error, and we will all retire on this.
>Leave your network open, strangers are welcome. Period.
I have an open AP. The SSID is "FBI_SURVEILLANCE".
Let's have a show of hands. Who else on slashdot is old enough to remember when they proudly sprayed DDT in parks and drive-in movie theatres?
>Do you know how expensive and disruptive it is to "lock down the state all the way to Roanoke".
Marginally disruptive, considering what they have on their hands now.
I'm even more convinced of my initial analysis. They thought they had the incident under control, and were in the process of figuring out how to get their story straight for the press, when they needed to be *told* that they now had an incident on their hands that was front page global news. "Audible gasp" says it all.
I don't know how you get to "police state", and I'm not going to dignify that remark.
The people who should have been going into fifth gear on an emergency response were sitting in a conference room getting their story straight, while people were being massacred on their "watch" (not that they were actually "watching").
>Just a simple question: why tehse events are generally more rare in Europe
Lot of things are better in Europe than in certain other parts of the world, for myriad reasons. Next question?
>This gunman was sneaking around campus.
It's starting to look like school officials had gotten together to decide how they were going to cover their asses on what they thought was a single crime-of-passion type of incident. While they were deciding what to say to the press, they got the news all at once, all together, that *dozens* had been killed. They must have collectively realized that they had played down the incident, their only warning being an *email* urging "caution", rather than locking down the perimeter of the campus (should have locked down the state all the way to Roanoke!), and getting the helicopters up. They sat on their hands, and the "audible gasp" is their realization that their careers have all just ended, that they are responsible for the deaths of at least 30 people, and the largest incident of this kind in the history of the country has just occurred on their watch when they could have done more to prevent it, and chose not to.
There is a lot that needs to be explained. First, they need to explain why at 7:45 everyone was allowed to leave classrooms to go to 8:00 classes. Second, they need to explain when email became the sole medium for emergency alerts. Bullhorns from police cars, motorcycles, and helicopters, and activation of volunteer militia is how this is supposed to go -- where the hell are the famous Va Corps for fuck's sake? All in Iraq I presume.
>If "they" have access to my data then why cant they see that I no longer need/want any help?
They can see that you are paying someone else regularly. If they could convince you that you could have an even better deal, they win. Do you have a home mortgage? It's even worse with that.
Federal laws being violated? Arrest and convict the person in the highest level of authority who knew or should have known this was happening. Strip that person of all assets and make him spend decades in prison.
We have laws, and a penal system that exists as a deterrent for violating those laws. Bank executives don't have immunity. Do it, completely destroy a few of these people who think they are above the law because of their positions of authority and their billions of dollars, and the rest will think twice before making the same mistake.
>HDTV data only goes up to 1920x1080. Any more pixels than that and you're not adding anything to the picture quality
That's only if you are thinking as a consumer. If you are creating content for it, you can certainly have higher resolution. Why limit headroom in any domain to that of some consumer format?
>A ~35" flatscreen isn't really that much more expensive than a ~35" CRT was a few years ago. It's not like a $200 27" CRT you get at
>WalMart is going to be good anyway.
I literally had a $197 27" Panasonic TV that I bought from Walmart; just retired it because I got a Sanyo 37" flatscreen. Got the flatsceen because it has SVGA inputs and works extremely well as a computer monitor, but only cost a little more than a 19" monitor would have cost. The TV, which I just kicked down to one of the postdocs, is quite good. Best TV I ever had, as a matter of fact; and I wish I could have had a TV that good back in the Apple II days!
I sold my domain name for $10,000 a couple of months ago. No regrets at all. But what I can't figure out, looking at what the guy who bought it used it for, why it was worth that much to him. All it is now, is a page with links, mostly to things I used to host on my site for my own purposes. Just seems weird.
>imagine Nethack in 3D, with no compromises
I cannot, and here is the reason: Any attempt at representation in graphics is going to be far less detailed, and far more tame, than my imagination makes it.
This is the reason Nethack, and roguelike games in general, have so much appeal.
Definitely my imagination makes this game more gory, and the situations the character faces in the game more desperate, than anything mere computer graphics can offer.
Others are entitled to disagree, but I don't actually consider roguelike games to be "retro" at all, and in many important ways, confer a sense of realism that cinematic graphics can never do.
And the places where Nethack's realism is weak, has more to do with issues like pathfinding, and range, distance and line of sight computation -- and as a computer scientist, I can recognize the difficulty involved in improving those things.
The beauty of Nethack is not what happens on the display - it's how you imagine what's happening between turns.
>Eh, states get picky about things crossing their borders that they could tax or sell.
So why alcohol? Why not my laptop? Or the gas in my tank? Or the car itself for that matter?
"What about the concept of disappeared do you not get. It's not that your family doesn't know that you have disappeared. It's the removal from society without a hearing."
You know someone who has been imprisoned without a hearing, or waiving the right to a hearing? You need to give a name and specific circumstances if you're making this claim.
The only games I play are console roguelikes and chess via XBoard and FICS.
If you play WOW that's your problem. The fact that I would need to run Windows in order to play it is among the many reasons I will not.
Okay, then, if you can name someone who was designated an enemy combatant and disappeared, please do.
Everyone I know of with that designation was captured on a battlefield. Granted, I realize that we *created* that battlefield, but still, you want me to accept the premise that the US is right now a police state.
>Symbols are all in much more convenient locations, as far as I'm concerned.
I've been known to map parens, curly braces, and angles so that they don't need shift.
>you can use an xmodmap if you're using X to map caps to ctrl
OSX has a standard feature to do this, also a very straightforward way to map Dvorak.
As for learning it, don't change your keycaps (forces you to learn it from memory), and treat it like the "Memory" solitaire game. No reason to "switch", that's just an excuse for being too lazy to learn "both."
>I don't think as many people in the world can type over 100 wpm then the people here seem to claim.
I started my IT career in the legal field. Believe it. I thought I was a fast typist until I saw what legal secretaries can do. And that was on Selectrics and Model M's.
>Nothing stops you from training yourself on the dvorak keyboard layout, but it's not going to be anywhere near optimal for scrolling.
What? If I used a Dvorak keyboard map, absolutely my VI cursor movement keys would be mapped to exactly where they are on a QWERTY map, regardless of what letters they happen to be!
Do Dvorak VI users seriously miss this?
For the record, I use vi key mapping in my editor, my shell, and gaming. Also,
I'm strictly a QWERTY typist, but I can actually do OK on Dvorak and on several European keymaps when necessary.