Not sure how far they got, but remember reading that IBM was working on this and had some reasonable success at object recognition in images. I'd love to be able to classify the 10k digital images I've got around. Especially if it can recognize individuals (not that it would know their names initially, but would be trainable).
Well, some Christians believed in burning 'witches' alive at the stake (I think that qualifies as torture + murder), The Crusades (invasion), and a whole lot of 'christians' support the war in Iraq, which as an unavoidable side-effect kills children (killing children).
So, I'd say that Bush can be a Christian and still do what he does.
Being "Christian" doesn't make you any better than anyone else, as much as Christians would like to think it does.
On the other hand, there's no evidence that the concept of 'state' existed for 'most of human history'...unless you count the tribe of humans living in a valley a 'state'.
Oddly enough, Bush seems to want to tie Church and State back together, with his 'faith based initiatives', his Justice Department giving an amicus brief in support of displays of the 10 commandments in courthouses ( http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&si d=aVq7CjVw_3Zc&refer=us ), etc. So, given the religious overtones of Bush and his supporters, I can understand why people use the same tones to attack him.
Well, not counting that Canadian citizen we sent to Syria to be tortured, or the literally thousands of others in secret CIA prisions around the world...
Of course as far as we know, none are American Citizens, so that makes it ok...
I grew up with guns. In high school I took a friend's sister shooting and her parents thanked me for giving her some firearms education. But until 2001 I didn't own a gun myself. No need. I grew up on land, but as an adult I've lived 'in the city' (well, residential anyway) and didn't feel the need. After 9/11 my wife decided she wanted a gun. I recall her wanting it "for protection" (I'm not sure from what), and I voiced my opinion that getting a firearm to protect oneself from "terrorists" was idiotic, especially as we lived far from likely targets. Well, the Patriot act changed my mind. Now I've got a 9mm and 1000 rounds (which when delivered, the FedEx guy asked, "Here's your ammo. You going to go back east and shoot the president now?" with a hopeful tone. And that was sometime in 2003), in addition to my wife's 12 gauge.
I've always felt that everyone should know how to use a gun, at least a long gun, but in this day and age, I feel that everyone (of sound mind) should own one. After all, you never know if/when someone will hack the voting machines and put Democrats in charge of the government, with all the powers that the republicans have now. See, no matter which party you prefer, I think it's better that the government have the least power necessary to do their job.
To hear the writer of the article on the cover of Rolling Stone (don't remember his name) tell it, even voting 80% of congress out of office won't help, because the congressional process is broken. No longer are the parties willing to work together, now whoever is in power wields it like a club and freshmen coming in think it's odd that an oldtimer would talk to someone across the isle.
I'm not sure what we can do to fix it, but I think that Debt of Honor had the right idea...
Habeas corpus can be suspended while they attempt to determine whether you are a citizen. There is no time limit on how long they can take to determine that your passport is authentic, that birth certificate which is on file with the county where you were born is authentic, etc. Basically, they can hold you indefinitely before they determine, that yes you are a citizen and habeas corpus applies to you. So effectively, it doesn't.
I have to wonder if it doesn't become worth it to enforce a vacuum in the drive at that point. of course then you wouldn't have the air keeping the head and the platter apart.. sigh.
Well, given that the world is round, if we could distribute the energy efficiently, we wouldn't need to store it that efficiently. (Except for portable uses: cars, laptops, etc).
On the other hand, when the pacific is in night, the world probably uses less power for lights than when Eurasia/africa is. Though due to A/C, the power load may even out...
When the Governor of California isn't allowed to vote because of a voting machine cockup where 'test data' was still in the system and no one thinks, "Hey, what other bogus data is in there?" I pretty much give up hope...
Well, what do you think it would do to American politics and the respectability of the American president if the terrorists could cause the election to go to a Libertarian? First off, it would show the election to be a sham, secondly, if we honored the results, the Libertarian would probably leave them the hell alone, stop supporting the despots we love to hate, etc.
To join the Navy, my brother had to renounce his Irish citizenship. Of course the Irish don't recognize that he as renouced it, so as far as the Irish are concerned, he's still a citizen, and as far as the Americans are concerned, he's still a citizen. Sounds like dual citizenship to me, but the US Govt. does care in some cases...
Well, Windows might get me into much more trouble, since it would be obvious that I'd stolen Microsofts source code and ported it to a PPC mac!
Of course, I could run an OS-9 or OS-X partition just the same. hell, I imagine OS-X with a primary user with a 'hidden' home directory would be fine. According to my friend, customs was looking for illegal copyright materials and spent about 20 minutes browsing his (windows) laptop.
Given how easy it is to swap drives in some machines, you could just swap out the hard drive, unless they go thru all your prosessions very closely...
'Would you be comfortable wearing your name, your credit card number and your card expiration date on your T-shirt?'
No, but I think it'd be cool to have a t-shirt with LEDs that could put up multi-line data, and capture other peoples' names, CC-#s, etc and display _their_ info on _my_ shirt!
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Not sure how far they got, but remember reading that IBM was working on this and had some reasonable success at object recognition in images. I'd love to be able to classify the 10k digital images I've got around. Especially if it can recognize individuals (not that it would know their names initially, but would be trainable).
Well, some Christians believed in burning 'witches' alive at the stake (I think that qualifies as torture + murder), The Crusades (invasion), and a whole lot of 'christians' support the war in Iraq, which as an unavoidable side-effect kills children (killing children).
So, I'd say that Bush can be a Christian and still do what he does.
Being "Christian" doesn't make you any better than anyone else, as much as Christians would like to think it does.
On the other hand, there's no evidence that the concept of 'state' existed for 'most of human history'...unless you count the tribe of humans living in a valley a 'state'.
Oddly enough, Bush seems to want to tie Church and State back together, with his 'faith based initiatives', his Justice Department giving an amicus brief in support of displays of the 10 commandments in courthouses ( http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&si d=aVq7CjVw_3Zc&refer=us ), etc. So, given the religious overtones of Bush and his supporters, I can understand why people use the same tones to attack him.
Well, not counting that Canadian citizen we sent to Syria to be tortured, or the literally thousands of others in secret CIA prisions around the world...
Of course as far as we know, none are American Citizens, so that makes it ok...
I think even Dubya might think twice about dropping bombs on US soil when the 'terrorists' are obviously US citizens.
Hell, even the Fundies might think twice about bombing S.F....
I grew up with guns. In high school I took a friend's sister shooting and her parents thanked me for giving her some firearms education. But until 2001 I didn't own a gun myself. No need. I grew up on land, but as an adult I've lived 'in the city' (well, residential anyway) and didn't feel the need. After 9/11 my wife decided she wanted a gun. I recall her wanting it "for protection" (I'm not sure from what), and I voiced my opinion that getting a firearm to protect oneself from "terrorists" was idiotic, especially as we lived far from likely targets.
Well, the Patriot act changed my mind. Now I've got a 9mm and 1000 rounds (which when delivered, the FedEx guy asked, "Here's your ammo. You going to go back east and shoot the president now?" with a hopeful tone. And that was sometime in 2003), in addition to my wife's 12 gauge.
I've always felt that everyone should know how to use a gun, at least a long gun, but in this day and age, I feel that everyone (of sound mind) should own one. After all, you never know if/when someone will hack the voting machines and put Democrats in charge of the government, with all the powers that the republicans have now. See, no matter which party you prefer, I think it's better that the government have the least power necessary to do their job.
Wow, how the fuck did this get mod'd troll?
To hear the writer of the article on the cover of Rolling Stone (don't remember his name) tell it, even voting 80% of congress out of office won't help, because the congressional process is broken. No longer are the parties willing to work together, now whoever is in power wields it like a club and freshmen coming in think it's odd that an oldtimer would talk to someone across the isle.
I'm not sure what we can do to fix it, but I think that Debt of Honor had the right idea...
Habeas corpus can be suspended while they attempt to determine whether you are a citizen. There is no time limit on how long they can take to determine that your passport is authentic, that birth certificate which is on file with the county where you were born is authentic, etc. Basically, they can hold you indefinitely before they determine, that yes you are a citizen and habeas corpus applies to you. So effectively, it doesn't.
Yeah, now you'd need to mod it 'funny but true' :-(
Been in that cave long?
They don't have to file a case. Congress did away with Habeas Corpus recently, so they can just 'disappear' you, like all the other terrorists...
I'm really thinking that armed insurrection is going to be coming soon to the U.S....
I have to wonder if it doesn't become worth it to enforce a vacuum in the drive at that point. of course then you wouldn't have the air keeping the head and the platter apart.. sigh.
That is, politicians are good at politics. Geeks generally have as poor grasp of politics as Politicians do of Tech.
Certainly both need to do more to educate themselves about the others' spheres of influence.
Well, given that the world is round, if we could distribute the energy efficiently, we wouldn't need to store it that efficiently. (Except for portable uses: cars, laptops, etc).
On the other hand, when the pacific is in night, the world probably uses less power for lights than when Eurasia/africa is. Though due to A/C, the power load may even out...
When the Governor of California isn't allowed to vote because of a voting machine cockup where 'test data' was still in the system and no one thinks, "Hey, what other bogus data is in there?" I pretty much give up hope...
There were lots before OS-X, Not sure how easy it is to find info about them, since they were pre-internet, but they exist, passed mostly by floppies.
Well, what do you think it would do to American politics and the respectability of the American president if the terrorists could cause the election to go to a Libertarian? First off, it would show the election to be a sham, secondly, if we honored the results, the Libertarian would probably leave them the hell alone, stop supporting the despots we love to hate, etc.
In some parts of LA, in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and SF, there's a place called 'Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf' that just burries Starbucks in quality.
I'm too lazy to properly attribute this, but...
"Evil happens when good men do nothing"
Sounds like you're just as guilty as everyone else, at least they were yelling, you were just watching, right?
To join the Navy, my brother had to renounce his Irish citizenship. Of course the Irish don't recognize that he as renouced it, so as far as the Irish are concerned, he's still a citizen, and as far as the Americans are concerned, he's still a citizen. Sounds like dual citizenship to me, but the US Govt. does care in some cases...
Well, Windows might get me into much more trouble, since it would be obvious that I'd stolen Microsofts source code and ported it to a PPC mac!
Of course, I could run an OS-9 or OS-X partition just the same. hell, I imagine OS-X with a primary user with a 'hidden' home directory would be fine. According to my friend, customs was looking for illegal copyright materials and spent about 20 minutes browsing his (windows) laptop.
Given how easy it is to swap drives in some machines, you could just swap out the hard drive, unless they go thru all your prosessions very closely...
Can he help it if the working set for both apps is 4GB?
Oh wait, *i++ = i; isn't a useful app...
So, why wouldn't I just have two partitions, dual-boot, and on the plane make sure it's setup to boot the 'boring' partition?
Think the customs guys will notice that dmesg shows the drive has more space than df -k does?
They _are_ comfortable with emacs in a text window, right? That's what _I_ boot into
'Would you be comfortable wearing your name, your credit card number and your card expiration date on your T-shirt?'
No, but I think it'd be cool to have a t-shirt with LEDs that could put up multi-line data, and capture other peoples' names, CC-#s, etc and display _their_ info on _my_ shirt!