The difference is that I can use many languages on the back end to develop web apps. I'm stuck with Javascript, a really really shitty shitty language, for anything that runs on the browser. But like many shitty pieces of technology, it gained adoption and thus continues, each iteration just as fucking terrible as the last.
Yes, I know there are alternatives, but at the end of the day they still compile down to javascript.
As to your first point, it isn't reliable nine times out of ten. It's likely no more accurate than a placebo (i.e. having the suspect give testimony into a microphone hooked up to a computer and claiming the computer can determine whether he is lying or not).
As to the second point, it's just a prop.
As to the third point, yes, it has a psychological effect providing the suspect believes it is effective. But relying on the ignorance of suspects seems a pretty piss poor way to guarantee you're getting useful testimony.
The accuracy (i.e., validity) of polygraph testing has long been controversial. An underlying problem is theoretical: There is no evidence that any pattern of physiological reactions is unique to deception. An honest person may be nervous when answering truthfully and a dishonest person may be non-anxious. Also, there are few good studies that validate the ability of polygraph procedures to detect deception. As Dr. Saxe and Israeli psychologist Gershon Ben-Shahar (1999) note, "it may, in fact, be impossible to conduct a proper validity study." In real-world situations, it's very difficult to know what the truth is.
So we have is a machine built on a faulty set of assumptions about behavior that it is probably could never be verified, which utterly undermines your first point. It simply does not detect lies. Full stop.
They should just be plain outlawed for any investigative purposes. If I was in charge, right about now every polygraph in the possession of the state would be piled up and firebombed.
Locking someone up prevents them from killing to, so even if that's its purpose, it's a failure.
But as I said, that isn't capital punishment's purpose. These are all just rationalizations. Capital punishment's purposes are revenge and catharsis. Everything else is just layers of justification to make people feel better.
Frankly, I think executions should be shown. In fact, I think it should mandatory for the residents of every state where capital punishment watch at least one execution every five years. If the cause of capital punishment is so incredibly righteous, then how could this be bad?
In the world of moronic comments, yours may be the most moronic yet.
Study after study shows first of all that punishments that come long after the crime will not prevent other crimes. For any punishment to be an effective deterrent, it must come quickly. So, to my mind, if you want capital punishment to have a hope in hell of deterring anyone, have a swift trial, and then take the guy out into the courtyard and do the deed. Having a trial months or even a year or more after the criminal is caught, and then leaving the person on death row for years or even decades so removes the punishment in temporal terms from the criminal act as to utterly negate any deterrent effect.
Perhaps they should have picked a cheaper actor than Matthew Mcconaughey. For a second tier film like this one, I don't think you can justify his paycheck in extra tickets sold.
But in reality, most of second tier films are little more than Producers-like ways of fleecing money from arrogant but naive people who want a "producer" credit for helping finance this thing. And that's likely where this comes from. The big blockbuster films that make a gazillion dollars are usually funded entirely by the studios, but you'll notice the lower the budget of the film, the more "producers" there are.
You notice, by and large, it's the overpromoted crap films that seem to be the ones studios and producers pick to go after alleged file sharers for. I wonder whether the whole thing is a publicity stunt. "This movie is so good evil filesharing pirates want it! So buy it for legal for $9.99 and own your very own copy of Matthew Mconaughey being all thin and stuff..."
I'm not even clear why a polygraph is even in the mix here. Frankly, I think the things should be outright outlawed, and it should lead to prison sentences for any officer of the court to try to use one. It's pseudo-scientific quackery whose only purpose is to bully the uninformed.
But it is a group, and while perhaps "racism" is not the right term, "bigotry" is the right term. Beyond even that, I suspect many of the Muslim haters around aren't thinking of a white guy praying in a mosque when they think "I really hate Muslims", so I think there's still some justification to the accusation of racism.
Except, of course, capital punishment isn't actually a deterrents.
It's vengeance, pure and simple, and while I understand why people want it, if it is going to continue, it shouldn't be wrapped up in the language of crime prevention, because it doesn't prevent crimes. Allowing capital punishment to be justified in this way is simply a way to make it more palatable, and state-sanctioned killings should be anything but palatable.
If there's a lot of infrastructure built on Exchange/Outlook, there's no easy way to switch. Believe me, I'd get rid of Outlook in a heartbeat but replacing the infrastructure would be a huge expense; not necessarily in licensing fees, since there are a few halfway decent open source solutions, but in time moving to a new system.
In the long run I think we'll probably migrate over to a webmail solution, and use SuiteCRM or something similar for client management and scheduling services. We're running a small test bed in one of the smaller departments, but I'm thinking in a timeline of a couple of years before any real migration. Unfortunately, because I'm in Canada and our government contract forbids storage of certain data outside the country, I can't use GMail, because that's where I'd go for email functionality.
So two more years of Exchange, which is always like this sleeping dragon, most of the time snoring away, but every once in a while waking up and causing panic and mayhem. I've been administering Exchange for over 15 years, and I've learned to hate it more as the years passed.
It will be like so many of these types of film, a bunch of morons will pay money so they can get a producer credit, and then try to sue the real producers when that's about the only ROI they get for their money.
Is this the case that Seattle, of all places, has Internet connections straight out of the 1990s? Christ, the ISP I was working at in the dark ages switched from ISDN to a T1 back around 1999, and I'm a few hundred miles north in BC.
In reality they shouldn't be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, the principles should be teetering on the edge of a cliff, held aloft only by dental floss tied around their scrotums.
How about "year of the Android and iOS desktops... er... screens"
Let's be blunt. Microsoft is in a huge bind. Desktop sales are in the dumps, nobody feels any need to upgrade, except smartphones, which is a platform that Microsoft has been banging its head against for years.
Who the fuck cares about extensions in this case? That isn't even the issue. Edge fucking sucks. It's an unstable pile of garbage. We have forty computers running it, and we've had to set Chrome or Firefox as default browser (and PDF reader as well, Edge is equally shitty at displaying PDFs) because of instabilities that, in many cases bring up lovely error dialogs when it tries to start.
It is a piece of worthless fucking garbage, a toy browser, built on the Metro UI, even as Microsoft backs away from Metro.
For enough that you have to shove advertising down on our throats again. I have to say I'm totally thrilled with what Kelly said... Not sure who Kelly is, but it must be important.
Just another pathetic Slashdot Libertarian type trying to explain away what are clearly intrinsic factors for their lack of success. Bigots develop these scripts to preserve their tender egos from the realization that they are worthless lumps of flesh. There was a time when there were enough of them that they could rig the system, but now that they are quickly fading minority, they just flail about, impotent and useless, pathetic little men who won't be missed when they pass on.
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The difference is that I can use many languages on the back end to develop web apps. I'm stuck with Javascript, a really really shitty shitty language, for anything that runs on the browser. But like many shitty pieces of technology, it gained adoption and thus continues, each iteration just as fucking terrible as the last.
Yes, I know there are alternatives, but at the end of the day they still compile down to javascript.
As to your first point, it isn't reliable nine times out of ten. It's likely no more accurate than a placebo (i.e. having the suspect give testimony into a microphone hooked up to a computer and claiming the computer can determine whether he is lying or not).
As to the second point, it's just a prop.
As to the third point, yes, it has a psychological effect providing the suspect believes it is effective. But relying on the ignorance of suspects seems a pretty piss poor way to guarantee you're getting useful testimony.
The American Psychology Psychological Association has a pretty good writeup on it:
http://www.apa.org/research/ac...
In particular:
So we have is a machine built on a faulty set of assumptions about behavior that it is probably could never be verified, which utterly undermines your first point. It simply does not detect lies. Full stop.
Translation: I want to have the right to be an insufferable rude prick, but I don't want anyone to have the right to point it out to me.
You want to be a fucking asshole, go to town. But you won't ever stop me from calling you what you are.
Just because other people are bigots doesn't really give other people permission to be bigots.
They should just be plain outlawed for any investigative purposes. If I was in charge, right about now every polygraph in the possession of the state would be piled up and firebombed.
Locking someone up prevents them from killing to, so even if that's its purpose, it's a failure.
But as I said, that isn't capital punishment's purpose. These are all just rationalizations. Capital punishment's purposes are revenge and catharsis. Everything else is just layers of justification to make people feel better.
Frankly, I think executions should be shown. In fact, I think it should mandatory for the residents of every state where capital punishment watch at least one execution every five years. If the cause of capital punishment is so incredibly righteous, then how could this be bad?
He provides no actual evidence, provides no alternative explanation, he just simply makes a claim.
Translation: I reject science in favor of my prejudices.
If you have some studies that show capital punishment deters crime, then by all means provide it. Otherwise, you're just making shit up.
In the world of moronic comments, yours may be the most moronic yet.
Study after study shows first of all that punishments that come long after the crime will not prevent other crimes. For any punishment to be an effective deterrent, it must come quickly. So, to my mind, if you want capital punishment to have a hope in hell of deterring anyone, have a swift trial, and then take the guy out into the courtyard and do the deed. Having a trial months or even a year or more after the criminal is caught, and then leaving the person on death row for years or even decades so removes the punishment in temporal terms from the criminal act as to utterly negate any deterrent effect.
Perhaps they should have picked a cheaper actor than Matthew Mcconaughey. For a second tier film like this one, I don't think you can justify his paycheck in extra tickets sold.
But in reality, most of second tier films are little more than Producers-like ways of fleecing money from arrogant but naive people who want a "producer" credit for helping finance this thing. And that's likely where this comes from. The big blockbuster films that make a gazillion dollars are usually funded entirely by the studios, but you'll notice the lower the budget of the film, the more "producers" there are.
That's a rather mild rejection. I've seen other psychologists out and out call it pseudoscience, with absolutely no basis in fact.
You notice, by and large, it's the overpromoted crap films that seem to be the ones studios and producers pick to go after alleged file sharers for. I wonder whether the whole thing is a publicity stunt. "This movie is so good evil filesharing pirates want it! So buy it for legal for $9.99 and own your very own copy of Matthew Mconaughey being all thin and stuff..."
I'm not even clear why a polygraph is even in the mix here. Frankly, I think the things should be outright outlawed, and it should lead to prison sentences for any officer of the court to try to use one. It's pseudo-scientific quackery whose only purpose is to bully the uninformed.
Leave the e-meters to the $cientologists.
But it is a group, and while perhaps "racism" is not the right term, "bigotry" is the right term. Beyond even that, I suspect many of the Muslim haters around aren't thinking of a white guy praying in a mosque when they think "I really hate Muslims", so I think there's still some justification to the accusation of racism.
Except, of course, capital punishment isn't actually a deterrents.
It's vengeance, pure and simple, and while I understand why people want it, if it is going to continue, it shouldn't be wrapped up in the language of crime prevention, because it doesn't prevent crimes. Allowing capital punishment to be justified in this way is simply a way to make it more palatable, and state-sanctioned killings should be anything but palatable.
If there's a lot of infrastructure built on Exchange/Outlook, there's no easy way to switch. Believe me, I'd get rid of Outlook in a heartbeat but replacing the infrastructure would be a huge expense; not necessarily in licensing fees, since there are a few halfway decent open source solutions, but in time moving to a new system.
In the long run I think we'll probably migrate over to a webmail solution, and use SuiteCRM or something similar for client management and scheduling services. We're running a small test bed in one of the smaller departments, but I'm thinking in a timeline of a couple of years before any real migration. Unfortunately, because I'm in Canada and our government contract forbids storage of certain data outside the country, I can't use GMail, because that's where I'd go for email functionality.
So two more years of Exchange, which is always like this sleeping dragon, most of the time snoring away, but every once in a while waking up and causing panic and mayhem. I've been administering Exchange for over 15 years, and I've learned to hate it more as the years passed.
It will be like so many of these types of film, a bunch of morons will pay money so they can get a producer credit, and then try to sue the real producers when that's about the only ROI they get for their money.
Is this the case that Seattle, of all places, has Internet connections straight out of the 1990s? Christ, the ISP I was working at in the dark ages switched from ISDN to a T1 back around 1999, and I'm a few hundred miles north in BC.
In reality they shouldn't be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, the principles should be teetering on the edge of a cliff, held aloft only by dental floss tied around their scrotums.
How about "year of the Android and iOS desktops... er... screens"
Let's be blunt. Microsoft is in a huge bind. Desktop sales are in the dumps, nobody feels any need to upgrade, except smartphones, which is a platform that Microsoft has been banging its head against for years.
For fuck's sake, I was playing fullscreen video on an Ubuntu install on a Pentium II a decade ago.
Are you a liar, or just a fucking retard?
Who the fuck cares about extensions in this case? That isn't even the issue. Edge fucking sucks. It's an unstable pile of garbage. We have forty computers running it, and we've had to set Chrome or Firefox as default browser (and PDF reader as well, Edge is equally shitty at displaying PDFs) because of instabilities that, in many cases bring up lovely error dialogs when it tries to start.
It is a piece of worthless fucking garbage, a toy browser, built on the Metro UI, even as Microsoft backs away from Metro.
For enough that you have to shove advertising down on our throats again. I have to say I'm totally thrilled with what Kelly said... Not sure who Kelly is, but it must be important.
Goes to show you just what a steaming pile of shit Edge is.
Just another pathetic Slashdot Libertarian type trying to explain away what are clearly intrinsic factors for their lack of success. Bigots develop these scripts to preserve their tender egos from the realization that they are worthless lumps of flesh. There was a time when there were enough of them that they could rig the system, but now that they are quickly fading minority, they just flail about, impotent and useless, pathetic little men who won't be missed when they pass on.