Exactly. My coworker had several security clearances, and every time he went up for a new one he had to sign a confession admitting that he had been busted for possession in the Bahamas because someone handed him a lit joint just before a cop walked up. They're not so much concerned with what you've done, just that it's a matter of public record so that you can't be blackmailed for it. This was the main reasons why "Don't ask, don't tell" was the worst possible policy for security - people that can immediately and irrevocably lose their entire career because of a single incident of homosexual conduct are easy targets for blackmailers!
16GB works fine if you have cloud backup, unlimited data plan, and are always close enough to a 4G cell tower. Otherwise, you're probably going to need more memory, especially if you're constantly taking pictures and videos like my daughter. Of course, if you only use your phone for phone calls, you also don't need much memory.
If you can't use it to read the whole book by searching for a page at a time, it's fair use. Unfortunately, I don't the Google implements any absolute limits like that, they just make it extremely awkward and time consuming to use it to read an entire book.
It would make more sense to let the copyright die with the original author... but in that case, I'd have a powerful incentive to kill my favorite writer so that I can get his books for free, wouldn't I?
Nah, free online porn! Now THAT is disruptive, nobody needs a girlfriend or boyfriend anymore! However, this might have a negative effect on the birth rate...
You're right, you take your refrigerator for granted until it fails unexpectedly. But now imagine this: the air conditioning at your workplace fails in July or August. Which is more disruptive?
Ice boxes worked fine. My father believes the most disruptive technology is closely related to refrigerators: air conditioning, which allowed the industrialization of the south, and is the enabling technology behind modern skyscrapers, especially those huge greenhouses in the middle of the desert e.g. in Dubai. We don't build huge buildings with opening windows or air shafts any more; that is kind of a major change. (An extremely energy inefficient change - build a greenhouse, then expend huge amounts of energy pumping accumulated heat out of the greenhouse.)
If you're ever going to be porting it to another platform, then do it in C; there are C compilers available for almost every piece of hardware out there.
If you're certain it only needs to run on a single, unchanging platform for the lifetime of the code, then using Rust might be a good idea.
No, wood sucks both for cooling and for shielding RF noise. One would have to line the inside of the wood with conductive foil to solve the latter problem, which would drive the price up. My preferred money-is-no-object solution would be to hide the guts of the system in a closet, with long wire leading to just the I/O devices. This also shields me from fan and hard drive noise, which I very annoying. Or, I could just use a laptop...
Our bodies evolved over millions of years to crave the smell, taste, and texture of COOKED meat? Not sure where our ancestors found that in the wild...
I subscribe to an evolutionary theory of nutrition, which says that we do best if we eat what our ancestors ate for tens of thousands of years. We were designed to eat meat, but because we didn't have refrigeration, we didn't eat meat very often. Gorging on red meat a couple times a month should be fine; eating it for every meal, not so much.
Always go in with overwhelming force is a principle I support, but in many cases there simply isn't the funding for it. Troopers in Alaska patrol hundreds of square miles by themselves, they don't have the luxury of waiting for backup.
As long as they have both tools available, we'll see cops use the lethal tool and claim they mistook it for the non-lethal one. "Thought I was firing the taser and fired my gun" and "Accidentally loaded lethal shotgun shells instead of bean bag rounds into the shotgun" are both excuses that cops have used for killing people. Apparently the incompetence defense is alive and well.
Actually, we need to give them all sidearms that are fingerprint activated or in some other way keyed to their biometrics, so that they can no longer use "he tried to grab my gun!" as an excuse to execute people. That and mandatory body cams that can not be disabled or turned off by the cops would solve a good part of the problem.
The quote is now "Most cops are not out to kill someone". I think most cops initially join the service because they want to help people. I suspect they get jaded after years of dealing with people at there worst. The other problem is the "most" apparently necessary in that sentence, implying some cops DO want to kill people. My need a system to identify and remove those cops from the field. Put them behind a desk where they don't have much opportunity to kill people.
The biggest problem with the current system is simple: The only consequence seen by cops that don't follow the rules is that evidence that could be used to convict guilty people is thrown out. This means if they abuse innocent people, there are no consequences! What we need is a system that provides meaningful consequences for misconduct, and retains evidence now thrown out unless there is reasonable doubt that it wasn't planted.
Pron doesn't break the system, it drives the technological advances in the system. As in it would pretty much be the driving force towards improving the haptic feedback technology in the holodeck, as well as the technology for cleaning the holodeck afterwards...
I thought tasers were already the de facto standard for non-lethal immobilization. The dirty secret is that they don't actually work very well, as in wearing a neoprene wetsuit under your clothes would pretty much render you immune to them.
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Exactly. My coworker had several security clearances, and every time he went up for a new one he had to sign a confession admitting that he had been busted for possession in the Bahamas because someone handed him a lit joint just before a cop walked up. They're not so much concerned with what you've done, just that it's a matter of public record so that you can't be blackmailed for it. This was the main reasons why "Don't ask, don't tell" was the worst possible policy for security - people that can immediately and irrevocably lose their entire career because of a single incident of homosexual conduct are easy targets for blackmailers!
16GB works fine if you have cloud backup, unlimited data plan, and are always close enough to a 4G cell tower. Otherwise, you're probably going to need more memory, especially if you're constantly taking pictures and videos like my daughter. Of course, if you only use your phone for phone calls, you also don't need much memory.
Or, you know, you could just include a microSD card slot, and sell the phone with no flash memory at all for even less...
If you can't use it to read the whole book by searching for a page at a time, it's fair use. Unfortunately, I don't the Google implements any absolute limits like that, they just make it extremely awkward and time consuming to use it to read an entire book.
It would make more sense to let the copyright die with the original author... but in that case, I'd have a powerful incentive to kill my favorite writer so that I can get his books for free, wouldn't I?
Nah, free online porn! Now THAT is disruptive, nobody needs a girlfriend or boyfriend anymore! However, this might have a negative effect on the birth rate...
Obama managed to get elected president, he's obviously smarter than you are!
You're right, you take your refrigerator for granted until it fails unexpectedly. But now imagine this: the air conditioning at your workplace fails in July or August. Which is more disruptive?
Ice boxes worked fine. My father believes the most disruptive technology is closely related to refrigerators: air conditioning, which allowed the industrialization of the south, and is the enabling technology behind modern skyscrapers, especially those huge greenhouses in the middle of the desert e.g. in Dubai. We don't build huge buildings with opening windows or air shafts any more; that is kind of a major change. (An extremely energy inefficient change - build a greenhouse, then expend huge amounts of energy pumping accumulated heat out of the greenhouse.)
If you're ever going to be porting it to another platform, then do it in C; there are C compilers available for almost every piece of hardware out there. If you're certain it only needs to run on a single, unchanging platform for the lifetime of the code, then using Rust might be a good idea.
Most routers are running Linux and the firmware is written in C.
Install your VR setup up in your garage, plenty of space when the car isn't in it. Apartment dwellers: yeah, you're probably screwed.
Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the entire chicken. Running Windows is analogous to using an entire chicken!
No, wood sucks both for cooling and for shielding RF noise. One would have to line the inside of the wood with conductive foil to solve the latter problem, which would drive the price up. My preferred money-is-no-object solution would be to hide the guts of the system in a closet, with long wire leading to just the I/O devices. This also shields me from fan and hard drive noise, which I very annoying. Or, I could just use a laptop...
Our bodies evolved over millions of years to crave the smell, taste, and texture of COOKED meat? Not sure where our ancestors found that in the wild...
I subscribe to an evolutionary theory of nutrition, which says that we do best if we eat what our ancestors ate for tens of thousands of years. We were designed to eat meat, but because we didn't have refrigeration, we didn't eat meat very often. Gorging on red meat a couple times a month should be fine; eating it for every meal, not so much.
I'm not an iOS programmer, which generates more efficient executables?
Always go in with overwhelming force is a principle I support, but in many cases there simply isn't the funding for it. Troopers in Alaska patrol hundreds of square miles by themselves, they don't have the luxury of waiting for backup.
As long as they have both tools available, we'll see cops use the lethal tool and claim they mistook it for the non-lethal one. "Thought I was firing the taser and fired my gun" and "Accidentally loaded lethal shotgun shells instead of bean bag rounds into the shotgun" are both excuses that cops have used for killing people. Apparently the incompetence defense is alive and well.
Actually, we need to give them all sidearms that are fingerprint activated or in some other way keyed to their biometrics, so that they can no longer use "he tried to grab my gun!" as an excuse to execute people. That and mandatory body cams that can not be disabled or turned off by the cops would solve a good part of the problem.
The quote is now "Most cops are not out to kill someone". I think most cops initially join the service because they want to help people. I suspect they get jaded after years of dealing with people at there worst. The other problem is the "most" apparently necessary in that sentence, implying some cops DO want to kill people. My need a system to identify and remove those cops from the field. Put them behind a desk where they don't have much opportunity to kill people.
The biggest problem with the current system is simple: The only consequence seen by cops that don't follow the rules is that evidence that could be used to convict guilty people is thrown out. This means if they abuse innocent people, there are no consequences! What we need is a system that provides meaningful consequences for misconduct, and retains evidence now thrown out unless there is reasonable doubt that it wasn't planted.
Pron doesn't break the system, it drives the technological advances in the system. As in it would pretty much be the driving force towards improving the haptic feedback technology in the holodeck, as well as the technology for cleaning the holodeck afterwards...
I'm pretty sure it's the lengthy incarceration afterwards that acts as a deterrent, not the immobilization itself...
I thought tasers were already the de facto standard for non-lethal immobilization. The dirty secret is that they don't actually work very well, as in wearing a neoprene wetsuit under your clothes would pretty much render you immune to them.
"Tragedy of the commons"? Free shared resource tends to make people behave like douchebags, yes.