Maybe not the average American car but there's always DIY types out there and you just gave them ideas. Thanks Xpilot for making my drive to work much more frightening!
I never have mods when I want 'em so I'll just agree with a reply.
King could have been beating the crap out of those cops but, when they had him incapacitated, they should have stopped. There's no scenario I can see for their actions when King was down. If they were good cops (which I doubt), the only explaination I can think of is blind adrenalin rage but that should not be enough to keep them out of jail. If you can't control yourself in that stress, you should not be a cop.
But there is a problem with that. This is a case where the not-so-peaceful protesters have control of the video. "Tom, start taping after I smash the cop in the mouth but before he beats me unconscious." Or, screw it, tape the whole thing and we'll edit it later... profit!
Not to say the cops/govt can't do the same thing. But I believe the cop car cams are closed systems that can't be altered by the cop. I could be way off on that but that's the way I would design it. Plus a law that would require the entire tape made available in court.
Reminds me of the joke (which I can't remember exactly)
A guy on his death bed asks a friend to pour a bottle of scotch on his grave after he dies. After the funeral, the caretaker finds the friend pissing on the grave and asks what the hell he's doing. The friend says, "His last request... he didn't say I couldn't pass the scotch through my kidneys."
"If bush wins the election, you will see this case quietly vanish into the ether.. if kerry wins the election... oh wait..."
I've said it before, and I'll say it again... people put WAY too much weight on the power of the presidency. In candidate ads, news articles,/. posts, and conversations, I hear/read of all these magical powers that just don't exist. Bush should do something about X, Kerry will make the paralized walk. The president has power but there are other people in our government.
Worried about the draft, pork spending, over/under litigation? Want more/less spending on aids, stem cells, drugs then? Talk to congress. They write and pass bills. The prez can veto but congress can battle that. If the current music business model is not working, then your congress-person should be pestered. If they thought stem cells are the cure and private funding isn't getting it done then there would be 100% backing in congress to ram a bill into Bush's lap.
Republican or Democrat, the president is not a Mystykyl Majical being that can cure every problem in the country.
Bah... we didn't have those fancy computer languages when I was learning. We had to program in pseudo-code... and like it! And we didn't even have '1's. We had to use two '0's and that was our '1'.
Maybe a a little old school for y'all but, ala Heavy Metal:
Zeks: Look, man, if there's one thing I know, it's how to drive while I'm stoned. You know your perception is completely fucked so you just let your hands work the controls as if you were straight.
"Kerry voted for the war on the basis of the evidence made available by Bush. We now know that the evidence for war was wrong..."
But didn't Kerry later say he would have voted for the war knowing what he knows now... that there were no WMDs?
To tell the truth, I don't believe what any politician says. The debates are beauty contests and ads are twisted spew. You can take anything out of context and turn any statistic in your favor. You're better off looking at the voting record and deciding what you approve of more. I no longer believe the Media and never believed Moore and Limbaugh.
But if Dirac is open source, wont it be super hackable. One could just add a hook in the code to write the stream to a file while playing. There wasn't any mention of DRM in the article but something doesn't map or I just don't get it.
I think more voters benefits us all. The less people vote, the less candidates (and the eventual winners) have to work. That's bad.
If we get down to too few demographics, candidates just have to keep them happy and stay in office for as long as they want... depending on the office. With more demographics, politicians have to be better rounded and keep their entire constituency in mind when campaigning and making decisions.
Yeah... I first read this with the definition of cracker being "a poor white person in the southern United States." Started wondering what all those crackers were doing in NK and what they trained them to do. They're pretty good with shotguns and watching old cars rust on the lawn but that can't be worth the hassle.
Maybe not directly as in bombing or shooting people. But computers are at the heart of a lot of things that have lives on the line. I realize there's massive backup systems but lives could be lost if something goes wrong with: air traffic control, hospitals, emergency response, or military weapons. Financial lives could be ruined if banks, investment, or pension instatutions were attacked. And what about our dependence on power and comm? If a grid or communication system could be hacked in a large enough area, people could go without food, water, medicine, etc.
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You mean this isn't it now??!?
How does this affect the radio wave blocking abilities of my tin foil hat?
Maybe not the average American car but there's always DIY types out there and you just gave them ideas. Thanks Xpilot for making my drive to work much more frightening!
King could have been beating the crap out of those cops but, when they had him incapacitated, they should have stopped. There's no scenario I can see for their actions when King was down. If they were good cops (which I doubt), the only explaination I can think of is blind adrenalin rage but that should not be enough to keep them out of jail. If you can't control yourself in that stress, you should not be a cop.
Not to say the cops/govt can't do the same thing. But I believe the cop car cams are closed systems that can't be altered by the cop. I could be way off on that but that's the way I would design it. Plus a law that would require the entire tape made available in court.
I see a new Linux commercial!
A guy on his death bed asks a friend to pour a bottle of scotch on his grave after he dies. After the funeral, the caretaker finds the friend pissing on the grave and asks what the hell he's doing. The friend says, "His last request... he didn't say I couldn't pass the scotch through my kidneys."
Dude... the street vender in Paris said "Don't tread on me" t-shirts, cowboy hats and boots were all the rage in France!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again... people put WAY too much weight on the power of the presidency. In candidate ads, news articles, /. posts, and conversations, I hear/read of all these magical powers that just don't exist. Bush should do something about X, Kerry will make the paralized walk. The president has power but there are other people in our government.
Worried about the draft, pork spending, over/under litigation? Want more/less spending on aids, stem cells, drugs then? Talk to congress. They write and pass bills. The prez can veto but congress can battle that. If the current music business model is not working, then your congress-person should be pestered. If they thought stem cells are the cure and private funding isn't getting it done then there would be 100% backing in congress to ram a bill into Bush's lap.
Republican or Democrat, the president is not a Mystykyl Majical being that can cure every problem in the country.
Bah... we didn't have those fancy computer languages when I was learning. We had to program in pseudo-code... and like it! And we didn't even have '1's. We had to use two '0's and that was our '1'.
So long as we don't get the GTA:VC's "Lance shot first" debates!
Wish I was young enough to marry one of the Swedish Girls of Gaming: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/fun.games/10/18/games .swedishgirls.ap/index.html
Zeks: Look, man, if there's one thing I know, it's how to drive while I'm stoned. You know your perception is completely fucked so you just let your hands work the controls as if you were straight.
FWIW, neither will RealVNC client ver 3.3.7. That always gets me but not that bad a hassle.
Though this thread is long dead, I thought I'd respond in the off chance you check replies to yer posts:
You're right, I stand corrected, "voted for the war" was an over simplification, and I'd mod ya if I had the points.
But didn't Kerry later say he would have voted for the war knowing what he knows now... that there were no WMDs?
To tell the truth, I don't believe what any politician says. The debates are beauty contests and ads are twisted spew. You can take anything out of context and turn any statistic in your favor. You're better off looking at the voting record and deciding what you approve of more. I no longer believe the Media and never believed Moore and Limbaugh.
That'll do the trick.
Add to that list the War on Poverty.
But if Dirac is open source, wont it be super hackable. One could just add a hook in the code to write the stream to a file while playing. There wasn't any mention of DRM in the article but something doesn't map or I just don't get it.
Sarge walks into a room
Lights go out and monsters attack
Sarge kills monsters
Repeat
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/01/011402_sm ells.jhtml
If we get down to too few demographics, candidates just have to keep them happy and stay in office for as long as they want... depending on the office. With more demographics, politicians have to be better rounded and keep their entire constituency in mind when campaigning and making decisions.
Oblig: I can't let you do that, Dave.
(With appologies to our southern friends)
Maybe not directly as in bombing or shooting people. But computers are at the heart of a lot of things that have lives on the line. I realize there's massive backup systems but lives could be lost if something goes wrong with: air traffic control, hospitals, emergency response, or military weapons. Financial lives could be ruined if banks, investment, or pension instatutions were attacked. And what about our dependence on power and comm? If a grid or communication system could be hacked in a large enough area, people could go without food, water, medicine, etc.