I guess you've never had the displeasure of being pulled out of line and fully strip-searched because you've got a biomedical implant that sets off the alarm.
So much for my fucking medical privacy, and so much for not being DETAINED, as detention implies.
I think the 7th grade English teacher is calling your name. Might want to listen, yea?
"But behavioral observation - if done correctly, and yes, that's a big if - is the only real profiling technique that has any chance of not falling into obvious traps."
Not really. Given the bullshit most of us have to deal with day to day, it would come as no surprise that we find ourselves sudden terror suspects at the slightest hint of unhappiness that manages to creep from otherwise-stoic facial features.
You know what works the best? It's really simple. Everybody opens their bags before check-in for inspection, as well as subject themselves to a simple scan for known hazards.
BUT I suggest that they get a warrant for every person, and describe what they're searching, why, and what they're looking for.
That way, when they find that the overwhelming majority has nothing, they end up with a huge stain to add to their record.
"You're in public, after all. It's not like you're being observed in your home."
I am being searched without warrant or probable cause for ANYTHING 'suspicious' including my facial expressions by a GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL AGAINST MY RIGHTS.
I think your title in the beginning of your name is very fitting - no sense of culpability or liability. You are indeed a pope, of some sort.
"When I pay for my Internet connection to my house, I'm paying for the cable connection that comes in, and the fibre connection that it converts to further up the line."
No, you're paying to get reamed up the ass without lube. YOU ALREADY PAID FOR THE LINES, it's called the 1996 Telecommunications Act. You're just being fleeced and you're too dumb to realize it.
Why should they have the liability? It could be the case that the ORIGINALLY 100% working crane was poorly maintained after sale, which caused the malfunction.
The answer to this is to outlaw digital machines and go back to purely physical mechanisms. Then a TRUE malfunction can be determined, by simply observing if there is any damage to any part inside of the machine, or obstruction.
As for only a nerd in a basement, I'm posting from my own business, thank you very much, and I find this very insightful, as it shows critical thinking skills.
Actually, no. I had a quite competent group work with me after I got nailed by a drunk driver and had a fair portion of my skeleton replaced with titanium.
And they guaranteed me "No win, you pay NOTHING, we handle it all." Right on the contract.
Not all lawyers are 'Ambulance chasers' some are really out to nail the bad guy. This one had a record thicker than my wrist, mostly regarding DUI/DWI. After civil procedures, they even testified on my behalf in court against the man.
"Your AR is no match for a helicopter you can not hear which fires 30mm HE rounds."
I don't need to hear a damned thing when an EMP is all I need to make a no-fly zone. On top of that, I wouldn't use an AR against a chopper, I'd use a.50BMG sniper rifle. One shot to the rotor and that's the end of the chopper.
Grab a few books on asymmetrical warfare and chat with some people currently in the military. You'll see pretty easy how one can simply wipe out any military force given today's reliance upon technological means.
Umm, I don't know about the crap brands you choose to invest in, but my old CRT with built-in DVD and VCR (neither of which work) still turns on and receives signals and displays images and outputs sound.
Blizzard's Warden should be good enough for a lawsuit of invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of a computer.
I didn't explicitly authorize in writing the added usage of my resources beyond THE GAME ITSELF. All add-on software that is NOT THE GAME is disallowed. Also, I didn't explicitly authorize in writing for Blizzard's software to continually scan OTHER PROGRAMS IT HAS NO LEGAL RIGHT TO OBSERVE.
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"And every 500 hours (aka 20.8 days at 24x7) all the projectors will time out and refuse to display anything but "time to change the bulb!""
Bypass the UHP ballast and toss a 100w LED in there. No more bulb display notice, at least 15,000 hours lamp life.
It's not even useful video conferencing.
Camfrog still rules the entire video conference sector, on both price and performance.
100 webcams at once, fuck yes!
Apple - copy everyone else, claim it's revolutionary.
"Aside from the fact that a legitimate officer would not fire his gun on a plane for fear of depressurising the aircraft."
Aside from the fact we've had bullets to prevent that very thing from happening for a while, now, you're almost correct.
"If you can't show your naked BODY, don't go out in public,"
There, I fixed it for you. Happy with that irrational train of thought you keep?
"Note that investigation != detention"
I guess you've never had the displeasure of being pulled out of line and fully strip-searched because you've got a biomedical implant that sets off the alarm.
So much for my fucking medical privacy, and so much for not being DETAINED, as detention implies.
I think the 7th grade English teacher is calling your name. Might want to listen, yea?
"But behavioral observation - if done correctly, and yes, that's a big if - is the only real profiling technique that has any chance of not falling into obvious traps."
Not really. Given the bullshit most of us have to deal with day to day, it would come as no surprise that we find ourselves sudden terror suspects at the slightest hint of unhappiness that manages to creep from otherwise-stoic facial features.
You know what works the best? It's really simple. Everybody opens their bags before check-in for inspection, as well as subject themselves to a simple scan for known hazards.
BUT I suggest that they get a warrant for every person, and describe what they're searching, why, and what they're looking for.
That way, when they find that the overwhelming majority has nothing, they end up with a huge stain to add to their record.
"You're in public, after all. It's not like you're being observed in your home."
I am being searched without warrant or probable cause for ANYTHING 'suspicious' including my facial expressions by a GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL AGAINST MY RIGHTS.
I think your title in the beginning of your name is very fitting - no sense of culpability or liability. You are indeed a pope, of some sort.
"He's not giving them that right, you are by running their software and agreeing to their EULA."
Not true. Most certainly that wasn't what happened when I took EA to court.
Give you a hint: I won. EULAs are bullshit and even the courts know it.
'Did you click the "I Agree" button at the end of the EULA? Legally, that's authorization enough.'
That isn't what happened when I took EA to court over Spore. :)
"When I pay for my Internet connection to my house, I'm paying for the cable connection that comes in, and the fibre connection that it converts to further up the line."
No, you're paying to get reamed up the ass without lube. YOU ALREADY PAID FOR THE LINES, it's called the 1996 Telecommunications Act. You're just being fleeced and you're too dumb to realize it.
Umm, the assholes are oversubscribing their networks and not providing us with what we were initially paying for.
"But this is just Apple being the biggest company in IT."
Umm, NO. HP is FAR larger. Apple doesn't do medical devices, for instance.
You misunderestimate the power of crowds.
Especially if perhaps a couple of your buddies are cops and they happen to be in that crowd.
Why should they have the liability? It could be the case that the ORIGINALLY 100% working crane was poorly maintained after sale, which caused the malfunction.
The answer to this is to outlaw digital machines and go back to purely physical mechanisms. Then a TRUE malfunction can be determined, by simply observing if there is any damage to any part inside of the machine, or obstruction.
As for only a nerd in a basement, I'm posting from my own business, thank you very much, and I find this very insightful, as it shows critical thinking skills.
Actually, no. I had a quite competent group work with me after I got nailed by a drunk driver and had a fair portion of my skeleton replaced with titanium.
And they guaranteed me "No win, you pay NOTHING, we handle it all." Right on the contract.
Not all lawyers are 'Ambulance chasers' some are really out to nail the bad guy. This one had a record thicker than my wrist, mostly regarding DUI/DWI. After civil procedures, they even testified on my behalf in court against the man.
"Your AR is no match for a helicopter you can not hear which fires 30mm HE rounds."
I don't need to hear a damned thing when an EMP is all I need to make a no-fly zone. On top of that, I wouldn't use an AR against a chopper, I'd use a .50BMG sniper rifle. One shot to the rotor and that's the end of the chopper.
Grab a few books on asymmetrical warfare and chat with some people currently in the military. You'll see pretty easy how one can simply wipe out any military force given today's reliance upon technological means.
"Yes, but when was the last time you upgraded the video card or CPU in your laptop?"
Umm, last year? From a mobile nVidia 8600GS to an ATi HD4200 mobile.
What, you never heard of MXM slots?
"Yeah, so when either breaks, neither is usable."
Umm, I don't know about the crap brands you choose to invest in, but my old CRT with built-in DVD and VCR (neither of which work) still turns on and receives signals and displays images and outputs sound.
"I believe they have every right to modify their Warden software to scan for and ban accounts which use glider and other bot programs."
Thanks for giving them the right to violate the privacy of my computer and the software which I run upon it.
Blizzard's Warden should be good enough for a lawsuit of invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of a computer.
I didn't explicitly authorize in writing the added usage of my resources beyond THE GAME ITSELF. All add-on software that is NOT THE GAME is disallowed. Also, I didn't explicitly authorize in writing for Blizzard's software to continually scan OTHER PROGRAMS IT HAS NO LEGAL RIGHT TO OBSERVE.
"You cannot induce others to violate their contracts."
Contracts don't exist without signatures.
Show me where I signed my name in a manner identifiable with ME.
"EULAs have been held up in other cases."
They've also been pretty much ignored in others and held as unenforceable.
EA certainly wasn't happy when I pulled their EULA defense out from under them.
Unless it's the very public at large that has turned terrorist and the governments cannot control them.
Yea, you have to do it on an APPLE device.
I have no such restriction with my non-Apple hardware.
Enjoy your walled garden while I get the unrestricted vista.