As my reply to an Anonymous Coward points out: They are breeding terrorists with these actions. I do not live in NYC and *I* feel violated. I can only imagine how the people being subjected to this shit feel.
Violating a person's "right" to not be molested for no reason by "authorities" WILL create a violent response. I guess random bombings and murders are better than random thefts and murders. One is terrorism, the other is crime. Not much of a difference from my point of view except that one has at least some sort of justification.:(
Are there not enough terrorists in this world? Why do they feel the need to create more?
and why is everyone replying as an Anonymous Coward? Are you all seriously THAT afraid of the powers that be? Let them kill you. It sucks, but life has to end sometime. You may as well make it is inconvenient as possible to enjoy "their abuse of power" with your death.
Fair enough. From the link you provided, "The name derives from Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968),[2] in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that police may briefly detain a person who they reasonably suspect is involved in criminal activity".
To me, it sounds like there is no REASONABLE suspicion of criminal activity though. It sounds like they are grabbing random people who are not dressed like a businessman or who do not have the proper skin color... Which disqualifies them as true Terry stops.:/
I am a power user. I have 24 gigs of ram, 16 cpu cores, a video card that is sufficient to play games at 2560x1600... and yet, if I could hook my phone into the keyboard, monitor, and other peripherals, most of my time would be spent with that configuration. Writing code, reading web pages, writing email, etc do not require much in the way of resources. I was almost at that point with my N900 (very crappy/scratchable screen but otherwise a full computer).
Since your phone is always with you, wouldn't it be convenient to just attach it to a monitor/keyboard/etc at your destination (hotel room, library, coffee shop)? That way you always have YOUR computer with you.
Which is essentially what the N900 was. A full computer that fits in your pocket. If it could have output at least 1080P, it would have been exactly what this article is talking about... and running Linux!
Seriously, why would the police care if the police are doing nothing wrong? Are the videos revealing operational secrets that will make these "stop and frisk" actions less useful? Whatever their reason is, I would like to use that reason against them when they are requiring the same of me.
Which brings me to a question: How is "stop and frisk" not a violation of rights? It seems to be CLEARLY a violation of the 4th and perhaps even the 5th.
Wow. I am glad I missed out on all those "tools". Thank you for enlightening me. Jed + gcc are primitive and require a LOT of mental workspace, but a person is not misdirected with them. Oy.
I apologize for assuming something about your views. I should know better than to make such assumptions.
I should disallow javascript on Slashdot. It ate my reply when I realized it was trying to force me to post as Anonymous Coward.
Long story short, I was not being derisive in my response to you. You do have valid points.
My, and the OP's point, was that directing people to previously unknown websites is monumentally stupid. Post a page, without scripts on at least two other known websites such as the CERT website and the FBI website. Anything else is just perpetuating the tactics used to infect them in the first place. D'oh!
Seriously guy, why such derision? I did not know what DCWG stood for until you posted it. Since I am at least vaguely aware of what is going on, I had a much better chance of understanding it than the average person.
The person you are responding to had a perfectly valid point. I saw the site name in the summary and my first thought to myself is: WTF? Why not at least send them to a domain ending in.gov. What does this org (nothing against.orgs here) site have to do with anything at all and what kind of credibility is there?
I kind of agree that it should not have been modded up as informative even if the post would have been informative to future do-gooders. I think it should have been modded up as interesting or insightful though.
Or maybe he just does not have the experience yet to know why they act like they do and has always been taught that the young are adventurous and the old, not so much. What do you think will come out of his mouth? Exactly what you heard... but if we help him understand, his words will change... which would never happen with someone who is truly biased against a particular group.
In other words, educate him, don't insult him until after he refuses to learn.
and out of a team of 10, 2 came back with processes that helped improve our workflow
lol, the ratio you saw is almost exactly perfect for a normal distribution of people.
You gave good advice; however, I do not agree with dismissing the OP as a mouthy idiot. Some people have a lot to learn and they CAN learn if you take a little time to help them.
I am exactly twice your age and I run across similar issues with people. From experience, let me tell you this:
Take a group of 12 people. Out of that 12, 4 will be "adventurous" in their thinking and 8 will not be. Of those 4 "adventurous" people, 2 will not be satisfied with a surface answer and will almost always dig deeper.
If the percentages you are seeing are not like this, you are in an abnormal group.
Do not denigrate the group of 8. They are necessary for stability against the chaos that the group of 4 will cause from time to time. Their focus is different than yours but it is valuable.
It sounds like you are one of the 2 that will not accept surface answers. Be very careful. You are an agent of chaos and you will get fired. You are outnumbered and the group of 8 will likely denigrate you even though you are just as necessary as they are. You bring about change.
Be humble and be smart and you will go far. Be arrogant and smart and you will starve. You (and I) are nothing without others.
I agree and disagree. Companies are not always just some faceless corp like Verizon. Many companies are owned by individuals. Telling them what they can and can not do, short of harming people and stealing from them, is kind of... erm, fascist.
I would argue since they are part of an oligopoly(?) and that their services are vital to the functioning (be careful of the slippery slope) of society, that certain "play fair" rules are necessary regardless of ownership and individuality. If they can not understand this, then their leadership needs to be broken up and their things taken from them. Personally, I would let the townsfolk tar and feather them before running them out on a rail. Maybe a little humiliation is what they need.
I mostly agree with you... I do no think you fully appreciate how much we (or maybe just myself?) rely on autonomous behavior though.
When I drive, I pay a LOT of attention to what is going on around me. It is very frustrating to see things going wrong and how it all could have been avoided if someone were paying attention to what actually is useful on the road. I have driven somewhere north of a million accident-free miles so far and I am not a truck driver, I just like to drive.
Regardless of this, autonomous behavior drives our life forces (breathing, heart beating, reaction to pain, etc). A human's claim to fame within the animal world is the amount of behavior over and above the regular autonomous behavior that we can achieve. Generally speaking, intelligence seems to roughly equate to the amount of non-autonomous behavior that a person exhibits. This is a somewhat fallacious point of view though. Intelligence should take into account the type of control exerted over autonomous behavior as well.
Another way of putting it is that training your autonomous behavior is paramount to acquiring proper driving skills. This is NOT addressed at all in America when getting your license.
1. Make an app's core functionality capable of running headless. That's a surprisingly difficult deliverable for many apps that began life as a GUI.
Weird. Perhaps it is because I am not a paid developer... but this just seems very very wrongheaded. Why in god's name would the UI dictate functionality? Sure, the UI dictates usability... but functionality? The program should already be fully written and debugged before any sort of UI, graphical or not, is even started.
*sigh* I guess I live in the wrong paradigm. You are not the first person I have run across who thinks the GUI is the app.
If this tech exists right now, why isn't Ford including any of the tech in their cars right now? I am not talking about the AI portion of it here. That will have to wait for... legal? I am talking about having a display/voice/whatever in the car (not a wife!) telling you that there is another car in the lane in your blindspot or telling you that the lane is actually over there --> or... you see where I am going with this right? Some of this tech IS in some of the higher end cars. Some. None of it can be bought after-market yet.
Which brings me to another question: Why is it that all new tech lately seems to want to take control away from the human? Why does none of it ENHANCE the control an individual has (expect perhaps ABS)? I am not just along for the ride (pun not really intended but it works).
I don't understand the mentality of people who follow the "accelerate/brake/accelerate" cycle.
They are trained to do that by traffic lights that are timed to slow traffic down rather than for maximum throughput. Do not bitch when people behave like automatons. Everyone I know, including myself, has automaton behavior. It is how we navigate through life; otherwise, everything would be just too complex.
Gotta love the paranoia here. I have been on a US Navy Ship (USS Peleliu LHA 5) and when we docked in port, they would connect the ship to the services in the port since the satellite shot was too limited for any real MWR usage. I am kind of surprised that this is not being handled internally, but a Navy Captain (not necessarily the rank, but the commanding officer) has very wide leeway in making decisions aboard his/her ship.
And you would be correct. It is a satellite shot/s and the bandwidth for MWR (Morale Welfare and Recreation) is extremely limited. When in port, they do hook up the MWR portion of the network to whatever provider exists at that port... which is the situation the sailor is asking about.
I have no experience with commercial VPN services; otherwise, I would be directly answering the question.
Actually, what would be even cooler than each app having it's own available CLI would be each app having its internals exposed, as libraries or such, in such a way as to allow ANY command line to have access to them... (please don't hit me!) kind of like how Powershell in Windows has access to a lot of Windows internals.
I did not start off thinking of Powershell. What triggered me was you responding to this, "If anything, more applications should have command lines.", and when I started considering it, Powershell came to mind.
which frankly *only* makes sense on a tablet unless there is a de-metrofication project going on in the skunkworks.
Wasn't gonna comment... but, say what? From what I can see, Metro makes a decent interface... for tablets. All the hate seems to be for Windows 8 on regular computers.
It's a new tax to cover the healthcare costs of those who end up in the hospital without insurance.
You can get a tax break for having your own insurance, as proof that you won't be costing taxpayers anything when you end up defaulting on $200k of hospital bills after an accident.
Except even WITH insurance, you will still rack up $200k of medical debt. They will just deny covering each portion of the final bill until they are liable only for the amount of your deductible. What a major scam.
The whole fucking medical system is a scam. Let me die in a damned gutter somewhere and stop fucking with me you bunch of fucking assholes.
I also have insurance and the 2 big things it does for me are that it'll be tougher for an insurance company to deny benefits based on a pre-existing condition
ROFL. Not had to deal much with insurance have you? Well, your procedure is covered but codes 8910, 12114, 843, and 6454 (plus dozens more) are not covered which is what your doctor performed when doing the procedure. No, there is no way of knowing what codes can be used beforehand. No, the actions described by the codes can not be reversed. Yes, the broken wrist is fixed but you have to cough up $15k now. Kthx and bye. Oh, don't forget to pay your premium so you can keep your insurance coverage.
Or: Get medical procedure done. Doctor says $850 but the insurance will cover $500. Oddly, the deductible is $500 too. That means paying the full $850 out of pocket. No problem... Except the doctor sends a bill for $350 and the insurance sends a bill for $850 making the total out of pocket expense for an $850 procedure $1200. WTF? Surely it is a billing problem? Ask me about how the dispute resolution worked after the local sheriff comes to take my home from me after I pay $850 but refuse to pay $1200.
Except those without insurance are the ones who could not afford it before and can not afford it now. Medical debts can not be discharged under bankruptcy. There is no way to get rid of them. Those with money have paid as much as they could for their uninsured medical care and will not ever have money again until those debts are paid.
In different wording: You can not get blood out of a stone.
In other words, medical costs will continue to skyrocket because the root of this is NOT about those who can not pay.
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As my reply to an Anonymous Coward points out: They are breeding terrorists with these actions. I do not live in NYC and *I* feel violated. I can only imagine how the people being subjected to this shit feel.
Violating a person's "right" to not be molested for no reason by "authorities" WILL create a violent response. I guess random bombings and murders are better than random thefts and murders. One is terrorism, the other is crime. Not much of a difference from my point of view except that one has at least some sort of justification. :(
Are there not enough terrorists in this world? Why do they feel the need to create more?
and why is everyone replying as an Anonymous Coward? Are you all seriously THAT afraid of the powers that be? Let them kill you. It sucks, but life has to end sometime. You may as well make it is inconvenient as possible to enjoy "their abuse of power" with your death.
Fair enough. From the link you provided, "The name derives from Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968),[2] in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that police may briefly detain a person who they reasonably suspect is involved in criminal activity".
To me, it sounds like there is no REASONABLE suspicion of criminal activity though. It sounds like they are grabbing random people who are not dressed like a businessman or who do not have the proper skin color... Which disqualifies them as true Terry stops. :/
I am a power user. I have 24 gigs of ram, 16 cpu cores, a video card that is sufficient to play games at 2560x1600... and yet, if I could hook my phone into the keyboard, monitor, and other peripherals, most of my time would be spent with that configuration. Writing code, reading web pages, writing email, etc do not require much in the way of resources. I was almost at that point with my N900 (very crappy/scratchable screen but otherwise a full computer).
Since your phone is always with you, wouldn't it be convenient to just attach it to a monitor/keyboard/etc at your destination (hotel room, library, coffee shop)? That way you always have YOUR computer with you.
Which is essentially what the N900 was. A full computer that fits in your pocket. If it could have output at least 1080P, it would have been exactly what this article is talking about... and running Linux!
Seriously, why would the police care if the police are doing nothing wrong? Are the videos revealing operational secrets that will make these "stop and frisk" actions less useful? Whatever their reason is, I would like to use that reason against them when they are requiring the same of me.
Which brings me to a question: How is "stop and frisk" not a violation of rights? It seems to be CLEARLY a violation of the 4th and perhaps even the 5th.
Wow. I am glad I missed out on all those "tools". Thank you for enlightening me. Jed + gcc are primitive and require a LOT of mental workspace, but a person is not misdirected with them. Oy.
I apologize for assuming something about your views. I should know better than to make such assumptions.
I should disallow javascript on Slashdot. It ate my reply when I realized it was trying to force me to post as Anonymous Coward.
Long story short, I was not being derisive in my response to you. You do have valid points.
My, and the OP's point, was that directing people to previously unknown websites is monumentally stupid. Post a page, without scripts on at least two other known websites such as the CERT website and the FBI website. Anything else is just perpetuating the tactics used to infect them in the first place. D'oh!
Every few months or so, I see a post that deserves to be modded higher than the system allows because of the truths and insights presented. *sigh*
You nailed it. Hard. Respect to you kind sir.
Seriously guy, why such derision? I did not know what DCWG stood for until you posted it. Since I am at least vaguely aware of what is going on, I had a much better chance of understanding it than the average person.
The person you are responding to had a perfectly valid point. I saw the site name in the summary and my first thought to myself is: WTF? Why not at least send them to a domain ending in .gov. What does this org (nothing against .orgs here) site have to do with anything at all and what kind of credibility is there?
I kind of agree that it should not have been modded up as informative even if the post would have been informative to future do-gooders. I think it should have been modded up as interesting or insightful though.
Or maybe he just does not have the experience yet to know why they act like they do and has always been taught that the young are adventurous and the old, not so much. What do you think will come out of his mouth? Exactly what you heard... but if we help him understand, his words will change... which would never happen with someone who is truly biased against a particular group.
In other words, educate him, don't insult him until after he refuses to learn.
and out of a team of 10, 2 came back with processes that helped improve our workflow
lol, the ratio you saw is almost exactly perfect for a normal distribution of people.
You gave good advice; however, I do not agree with dismissing the OP as a mouthy idiot. Some people have a lot to learn and they CAN learn if you take a little time to help them.
I am exactly twice your age and I run across similar issues with people. From experience, let me tell you this:
Take a group of 12 people. Out of that 12, 4 will be "adventurous" in their thinking and 8 will not be. Of those 4 "adventurous" people, 2 will not be satisfied with a surface answer and will almost always dig deeper.
If the percentages you are seeing are not like this, you are in an abnormal group.
Do not denigrate the group of 8. They are necessary for stability against the chaos that the group of 4 will cause from time to time. Their focus is different than yours but it is valuable.
It sounds like you are one of the 2 that will not accept surface answers. Be very careful. You are an agent of chaos and you will get fired. You are outnumbered and the group of 8 will likely denigrate you even though you are just as necessary as they are. You bring about change.
Be humble and be smart and you will go far. Be arrogant and smart and you will starve. You (and I) are nothing without others.
I agree and disagree. Companies are not always just some faceless corp like Verizon. Many companies are owned by individuals. Telling them what they can and can not do, short of harming people and stealing from them, is kind of ... erm, fascist.
I would argue since they are part of an oligopoly(?) and that their services are vital to the functioning (be careful of the slippery slope) of society, that certain "play fair" rules are necessary regardless of ownership and individuality. If they can not understand this, then their leadership needs to be broken up and their things taken from them. Personally, I would let the townsfolk tar and feather them before running them out on a rail. Maybe a little humiliation is what they need.
I mostly agree with you... I do no think you fully appreciate how much we (or maybe just myself?) rely on autonomous behavior though.
When I drive, I pay a LOT of attention to what is going on around me. It is very frustrating to see things going wrong and how it all could have been avoided if someone were paying attention to what actually is useful on the road. I have driven somewhere north of a million accident-free miles so far and I am not a truck driver, I just like to drive.
Regardless of this, autonomous behavior drives our life forces (breathing, heart beating, reaction to pain, etc). A human's claim to fame within the animal world is the amount of behavior over and above the regular autonomous behavior that we can achieve. Generally speaking, intelligence seems to roughly equate to the amount of non-autonomous behavior that a person exhibits. This is a somewhat fallacious point of view though. Intelligence should take into account the type of control exerted over autonomous behavior as well.
Another way of putting it is that training your autonomous behavior is paramount to acquiring proper driving skills. This is NOT addressed at all in America when getting your license.
Sorry for rambling nonsensically.
1. Make an app's core functionality capable of running headless. That's a surprisingly difficult deliverable for many apps that began life as a GUI.
Weird. Perhaps it is because I am not a paid developer... but this just seems very very wrongheaded. Why in god's name would the UI dictate functionality? Sure, the UI dictates usability... but functionality? The program should already be fully written and debugged before any sort of UI, graphical or not, is even started.
*sigh* I guess I live in the wrong paradigm. You are not the first person I have run across who thinks the GUI is the app.
If this tech exists right now, why isn't Ford including any of the tech in their cars right now? I am not talking about the AI portion of it here. That will have to wait for... legal? I am talking about having a display/voice/whatever in the car (not a wife!) telling you that there is another car in the lane in your blindspot or telling you that the lane is actually over there --> or ... you see where I am going with this right? Some of this tech IS in some of the higher end cars. Some. None of it can be bought after-market yet.
Which brings me to another question: Why is it that all new tech lately seems to want to take control away from the human? Why does none of it ENHANCE the control an individual has (expect perhaps ABS)? I am not just along for the ride (pun not really intended but it works).
I don't understand the mentality of people who follow the "accelerate/brake/accelerate" cycle.
They are trained to do that by traffic lights that are timed to slow traffic down rather than for maximum throughput. Do not bitch when people behave like automatons. Everyone I know, including myself, has automaton behavior. It is how we navigate through life; otherwise, everything would be just too complex.
Gotta love the paranoia here. I have been on a US Navy Ship (USS Peleliu LHA 5) and when we docked in port, they would connect the ship to the services in the port since the satellite shot was too limited for any real MWR usage. I am kind of surprised that this is not being handled internally, but a Navy Captain (not necessarily the rank, but the commanding officer) has very wide leeway in making decisions aboard his/her ship.
And you would be correct. It is a satellite shot/s and the bandwidth for MWR (Morale Welfare and Recreation) is extremely limited. When in port, they do hook up the MWR portion of the network to whatever provider exists at that port... which is the situation the sailor is asking about.
I have no experience with commercial VPN services; otherwise, I would be directly answering the question.
Actually, what would be even cooler than each app having it's own available CLI would be each app having its internals exposed, as libraries or such, in such a way as to allow ANY command line to have access to them... (please don't hit me!) kind of like how Powershell in Windows has access to a lot of Windows internals.
I did not start off thinking of Powershell. What triggered me was you responding to this, "If anything, more applications should have command lines.", and when I started considering it, Powershell came to mind.
which frankly *only* makes sense on a tablet unless there is a de-metrofication project going on in the skunkworks.
Wasn't gonna comment... but, say what? From what I can see, Metro makes a decent interface... for tablets. All the hate seems to be for Windows 8 on regular computers.
It's a new tax to cover the healthcare costs of those who end up in the hospital without insurance.
You can get a tax break for having your own insurance, as proof that you won't be costing taxpayers anything when you end up defaulting on $200k of hospital bills after an accident.
Except even WITH insurance, you will still rack up $200k of medical debt. They will just deny covering each portion of the final bill until they are liable only for the amount of your deductible. What a major scam.
The whole fucking medical system is a scam. Let me die in a damned gutter somewhere and stop fucking with me you bunch of fucking assholes.
I also have insurance and the 2 big things it does for me are that it'll be tougher for an insurance company to deny benefits based on a pre-existing condition
ROFL. Not had to deal much with insurance have you? Well, your procedure is covered but codes 8910, 12114, 843, and 6454 (plus dozens more) are not covered which is what your doctor performed when doing the procedure. No, there is no way of knowing what codes can be used beforehand. No, the actions described by the codes can not be reversed. Yes, the broken wrist is fixed but you have to cough up $15k now. Kthx and bye. Oh, don't forget to pay your premium so you can keep your insurance coverage.
Or: Get medical procedure done. Doctor says $850 but the insurance will cover $500. Oddly, the deductible is $500 too. That means paying the full $850 out of pocket. No problem... Except the doctor sends a bill for $350 and the insurance sends a bill for $850 making the total out of pocket expense for an $850 procedure $1200. WTF? Surely it is a billing problem? Ask me about how the dispute resolution worked after the local sheriff comes to take my home from me after I pay $850 but refuse to pay $1200.
Except those without insurance are the ones who could not afford it before and can not afford it now. Medical debts can not be discharged under bankruptcy. There is no way to get rid of them. Those with money have paid as much as they could for their uninsured medical care and will not ever have money again until those debts are paid.
In different wording: You can not get blood out of a stone.
In other words, medical costs will continue to skyrocket because the root of this is NOT about those who can not pay.