And a number of those were caused by what I've been told by officials is a federal crime (having checked baggage travel without the owner on the plane).
Of course, compaines ship other people's packages on commercial flights all the time w/o the owner on board, and many of those packages undergo less-rigorous screening than passengers and their checked luggage. From: How safe is the cargo on passenger flights?
While much airport security is concentrated on screening passengers and their checked bags, about half the hold on a typical passenger flight is filled with cargo. In fact, over a third of cargo by volume that entered the United States in 2010 was shipped on passenger jets, according to the Department of Transportation. That is 3.7 billion tons. Another 7.2 billion tons of air cargo came in on all-cargo aircraft, according to the DOT.
And the screening requirements for such cargo are not as strict as they are for passengers and their checked bags.
Most of the cases described in the article involve in-bound international flights, and there is a US law requiring 100% screening of all cargo, even US officials admit that the screenings would have caught some of the items discussed in the article.
Under TSA guidelines, cargo screening can involve a variety of methods including physical inspection, dogs, a variety of single-view or multiview X-ray machines, and "explosive trace detection"... (but) Physical inspection of every package is impractical given the volume of cargo...
During a bag search at Dallas (DAL), a passenger stated: "I'm a terrorist."
Sure, perhaps that his job, but that doesn't mean he has a bomb or is going to threaten the plane.
He could simply be on his way to a convention, reunion or visit with friends out-of-town.
Even terrorists have mundane things to do - grocery shop, yard/house work, dentist appts...
Maybe I should create a website that has the following terms of service: "Any legislators who voted for this stupid law are forbidden from accessing this web site. If you voted for this law, you are now in violation of it and are now a criminal who belongs in jail", and then send them all links to the site to all of congress.
Sounds like you'd be charged with entrapment, enticement or some other such thing (law enforcement) people use to get what they want at your expense... Let me know where you're imprisoned and I'll mail you some soap-on-a-rope.
The CFAA would be amended to treat any violation of a website's Terms of Service – or an employer's Terms of Use policy – as a criminal act...
... According to the DOJ, this would mean anyone under 18 found accessing these sites — even just to read or comment on a story — could face criminal charges.
IANAL, but why would violating a private - basically contract - agreement be a criminal act rather than civil? Do we really need and/or want the criminal courts enforcing things like this. Also, what damages would be incurred by the sites? Surely there must be people in Congress that understand this.
Everything that you do, every day is against the law. All the time. All it needs is a motivated prosecutor or enforcement agent, to activate your infraction.
Personalization is currently under the "settings" charm in Windows 8. If you're on the desktop, Personalization (as in desktop theme) is right there in the charm menu. If you're in Metro, then it's the first item under "Change PC settings" (as in, "Personalize" is the first damned thing you see when you launch it). The only thing they did, if anything, was change the label in the charm to be dumbed down for the casual user who couldn't find Personalize without having it spelled out for them. Probably a result of their usage studies.
Luckily, you only said "charm" 3 times. Once more and I would have insisted that you kill yourself. Please don't drink the MS vocabulary Kool-Aid lest you start squirting your mp3 files to others...
And apparently he refuses to use Windows key, which was the easiest way to start programs in 7 and continues to be that in 8. (click and type a few letters....)
That you're recommending using a dedicated key and typing as the most efficient way to use a Graphical User Interface, says volumes about either you or the GUI. To be fair, I suspect you've simply adapted to a very poor GUI design - something, I believe, shared by both Windows 8 and Ubuntu Unity...
I understand that the method you described may be easier for acclimated users and/or for well known/used applications, but not for novice users or other applications (someone described an problem trying to key+type launch Thunderbird on Unity) - and especially if one has indexing disabled (like I do) - I don't need the system tracking all my documents for me because I'm not a moron.
It may be fun to believe that every single fundamentalist is actually a hypocrite and knows that the things they profess are untrue, but it's really about as stupid a belief as the one that the Bible is literally true in every detail.
It's easier to simply believe that those people are just stupid and/or incapable of critical, independent thought.
I thought the product of US courts over the past decade or so is proof-positive that virtually anything can be proven by "judicial standards."
Case in point: In the US, legally tomatoes are vegetables, though botanically fruits.
From: Tomato: Fruit or Vegetable:
In 1887, U.S. tariff laws that imposed a duty on vegetables, but not on fruits, caused the tomato's status to become a matter of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court settled this controversy on May 10, 1893, by declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, based on the popular definition that classifies vegetables by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert (Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304)). The holding of this case applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, and the court did not purport to reclassify the tomato for botanical or other purposes.
You're all fucking stupid for arguing about the phrasing in a book that's been interpreted and re-written many times, by many different people. As it stands now, the Bible is the word of Man, not God. Anyone got the *original* version handy for reference. I didn't think so.
Mastropaolo said that any evidence presented in the trial must be 'scientific, objective, valid, reliable and calibrated.
... how would those conditions be met, or does he propose those only for the challenger? The claims made in the Book of Genesis cannot be proven scientifically or objectively. On the other hand, science can demonstrate that the Earth is more than 6000 years old and the Universe ~13.5 billion year old, unless one disbelieves the science - in which case, no scientific argument will be accepted by Mastropaolo. (You can argue with stupid...)
Here's the beginning part of the Wikipedia article about faith:
Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing, or a deity or in the doctrines or teachings of a religion. It may also be belief that is not based on proof.
People seem to have a lot of faith in Wikipedia...
Christian parents freak out when their kids don't want to go to church, because a key Christian belief is that there will be a day when we are all judged by God. According to Christian theology, everyone has sinned, and so only those who accepted Jesus as their king and savior will be granted eternal life in paradise. Those who do not, at best have oblivion and at worst eternal punishment, depending on which version of Christian theology you ask.
So given those assumptions, perhaps you can see why parents would be deeply concerned as to whether or not their children are showing signs of following Jesus.
And... Going to church means you're a good Christian and will pass judgement and "showing signs of following Jesus" makes it true? That's rather naive. While I know people that profess to be good Christians and appear to act accordingly, many others are not going to pass the judgement of which you speak, either because of lack of actual effort or willful actions on their part. Talking the talk is easy compared to walking the walk.
On a more personal note, I think it's all crap (and the USPS will probably lose this post...) I try to be a good person for my own reasons, not because I'm afraid of God's judgment and his/her arbitrary rules.
Customer: How much for a 32 gig iPhone?
Telus: $800
Customer: EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS??!! It's only $150 at Rogers!
Telus: Yes, but that price is subsidized.
Customer: What does "subsidized" mean?
Although, with the new T-Mobile pricing, you pay a down payment upfront (which may be zero, depending on the phone), then monthly payment on the phone - listed separately. If you want to cancel service, you just have to pay off the phone. The difference is that people can directly see what they're paying for.
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And a number of those were caused by what I've been told by officials is a federal crime (having checked baggage travel without the owner on the plane).
Of course, compaines ship other people's packages on commercial flights all the time w/o the owner on board, and many of those packages undergo less-rigorous screening than passengers and their checked luggage. From: How safe is the cargo on passenger flights?
While much airport security is concentrated on screening passengers and their checked bags, about half the hold on a typical passenger flight is filled with cargo. In fact, over a third of cargo by volume that entered the United States in 2010 was shipped on passenger jets, according to the Department of Transportation. That is 3.7 billion tons. Another 7.2 billion tons of air cargo came in on all-cargo aircraft, according to the DOT.
And the screening requirements for such cargo are not as strict as they are for passengers and their checked bags.
Most of the cases described in the article involve in-bound international flights, and there is a US law requiring 100% screening of all cargo, even US officials admit that the screenings would have caught some of the items discussed in the article.
Under TSA guidelines, cargo screening can involve a variety of methods including physical inspection, dogs, a variety of single-view or multiview X-ray machines, and "explosive trace detection" ... (but) Physical inspection of every package is impractical given the volume of cargo...
During a bag search at Dallas (DAL), a passenger stated: "I'm a terrorist."
Sure, perhaps that his job, but that doesn't mean he has a bomb or is going to threaten the plane.
He could simply be on his way to a convention, reunion or visit with friends out-of-town.
Even terrorists have mundane things to do - grocery shop, yard/house work, dentist appts...
Maybe I should create a website that has the following terms of service: "Any legislators who voted for this stupid law are forbidden from accessing this web site. If you voted for this law, you are now in violation of it and are now a criminal who belongs in jail", and then send them all links to the site to all of congress.
Sounds like you'd be charged with entrapment, enticement or some other such thing (law enforcement) people use to get what they want at your expense... Let me know where you're imprisoned and I'll mail you some soap-on-a-rope.
The CFAA would be amended to treat any violation of a website's Terms of Service – or an employer's Terms of Use policy – as a criminal act...
... According to the DOJ, this would mean anyone under 18 found accessing these sites — even just to read or comment on a story — could face criminal charges.
IANAL, but why would violating a private - basically contract - agreement be a criminal act rather than civil? Do we really need and/or want the criminal courts enforcing things like this. Also, what damages would be incurred by the sites? Surely there must be people in Congress that understand this.
Everything that you do, every day is against the law. All the time.
All it needs is a motivated prosecutor or enforcement agent, to activate your infraction.
Thanks Aaron.
Personalization is currently under the "settings" charm in Windows 8. If you're on the desktop, Personalization (as in desktop theme) is right there in the charm menu. If you're in Metro, then it's the first item under "Change PC settings" (as in, "Personalize" is the first damned thing you see when you launch it). The only thing they did, if anything, was change the label in the charm to be dumbed down for the casual user who couldn't find Personalize without having it spelled out for them. Probably a result of their usage studies.
Luckily, you only said "charm" 3 times. Once more and I would have insisted that you kill yourself. Please don't drink the MS vocabulary Kool-Aid lest you start squirting your mp3 files to others...
And apparently he refuses to use Windows key, which was the easiest way to start programs in 7 and continues to be that in 8. (click and type a few letters. ...)
That you're recommending using a dedicated key and typing as the most efficient way to use a Graphical User Interface, says volumes about either you or the GUI. To be fair, I suspect you've simply adapted to a very poor GUI design - something, I believe, shared by both Windows 8 and Ubuntu Unity...
I understand that the method you described may be easier for acclimated users and/or for well known/used applications, but not for novice users or other applications (someone described an problem trying to key+type launch Thunderbird on Unity) - and especially if one has indexing disabled (like I do) - I don't need the system tracking all my documents for me because I'm not a moron.
...I'll wait for version 20.0.1 which will be released, if history is any indicator, on Thursday.
I use time all day too.
I work in milliseconds, microseconds and nanoseconds.
I'm not kidding either.
Stop bragging about your sex life - geesh.
It's still 1/4 in the states.
Well, no. In the states it's 4/1.
All of Europe should be on 2/4 by now though.
See, if the US switched to metric, we wouldn't have these miscommunications...
the rover can be used as a "telescope" stationed at Mars
Having seen the clear night sky a few times from (mildly) remote areas here on Earth, I can only imagine the view at night on Mars. (sigh)
It may be fun to believe that every single fundamentalist is actually a hypocrite and knows that the things they profess are untrue, but it's really about as stupid a belief as the one that the Bible is literally true in every detail.
It's easier to simply believe that those people are just stupid and/or incapable of critical, independent thought.
Who can decide a priori? Nobody.
-Sartre
Obviously, Sartre never met a US politician...
I thought the product of US courts over the past decade or so is proof-positive that virtually anything can be proven by "judicial standards."
Case in point: In the US, legally tomatoes are vegetables, though botanically fruits.
From: Tomato: Fruit or Vegetable:
In 1887, U.S. tariff laws that imposed a duty on vegetables, but not on fruits, caused the tomato's status to become a matter of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court settled this controversy on May 10, 1893, by declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, based on the popular definition that classifies vegetables by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert (Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304)). The holding of this case applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, and the court did not purport to reclassify the tomato for botanical or other purposes.
We are a generally stupid country...
You're all fucking stupid for arguing about the phrasing in a book that's been interpreted and re-written many times, by many different people. As it stands now, the Bible is the word of Man, not God. Anyone got the *original* version handy for reference. I didn't think so.
Mastropaolo said that any evidence presented in the trial must be 'scientific, objective, valid, reliable and calibrated.
People seem to have a lot of faith in Wikipedia...
I don't believe that...
Have a seat in the Comfy Chair non-believer.
Here's the beginning part of the Wikipedia article about faith:
Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing, or a deity or in the doctrines or teachings of a religion. It may also be belief that is not based on proof.
People seem to have a lot of faith in Wikipedia...
Christian parents freak out when their kids don't want to go to church, because a key Christian belief is that there will be a day when we are all judged by God. According to Christian theology, everyone has sinned, and so only those who accepted Jesus as their king and savior will be granted eternal life in paradise. Those who do not, at best have oblivion and at worst eternal punishment, depending on which version of Christian theology you ask.
So given those assumptions, perhaps you can see why parents would be deeply concerned as to whether or not their children are showing signs of following Jesus.
And... Going to church means you're a good Christian and will pass judgement and "showing signs of following Jesus" makes it true? That's rather naive. While I know people that profess to be good Christians and appear to act accordingly, many others are not going to pass the judgement of which you speak, either because of lack of actual effort or willful actions on their part. Talking the talk is easy compared to walking the walk.
On a more personal note, I think it's all crap (and the USPS will probably lose this post...) I try to be a good person for my own reasons, not because I'm afraid of God's judgment and his/her arbitrary rules.
I'm forced to conclude that you wouldn't know a "statistical sample" if it bit you on the behind.
Umm... Got some numbers to back that up :-)
Customer: How much for a 32 gig iPhone?
Telus: $800
Customer: EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS??!! It's only $150 at Rogers!
Telus: Yes, but that price is subsidized.
Customer: What does "subsidized" mean?
Although, with the new T-Mobile pricing, you pay a down payment upfront (which may be zero, depending on the phone), then monthly payment on the phone - listed separately. If you want to cancel service, you just have to pay off the phone. The difference is that people can directly see what they're paying for.
[ My vote for dumbest line in the last Star Trek movie. ]
And then a virus will take over it and we'll have our first T-1000.
You realize my post was more of a Six Million Dollar Man joke than Terminator joke, or are you a youngster?
...they'll rebuild it using bionic liquid to make it better than before. Better, stronger, faster.
[my surprised face]
Hmm... Looks a lot like an "o-face", but -- given that this is /. -- the similarity is to be expected.