They tried to screw us consumers, and we were able to stop them. They didn't think better of it and stop, it's purely that they couldn't profit from it.
I think the question people need to start asking themselves, first, is WHY they're filming in the first place.
I'm a photographer. My answer to that question is - so I don't face 10-20 years in jail on falsified charges made by an officer in retaliation for my recording - or just because I was nearby with a professional camera.
Assaulting photographers simply for recording is a crime. Falsifying charges against a photographer is a crime. Destroying a photographers (often extremely expensive) equipment is a crime. Those things became so common, so pervasive that holding a professional camera near an officer was known to be dangerous.
Some news photographers began filming each other so they'd have evidence when they were arrested on false charges. In some areas, the illegal assaults and false arrests escalated.
That's escalation pissed off otherwise disinterested people enough that they'll record just to preserve the right to record. Departments and cities backed the officers actions, so civil lawsuits followed. Repeated losses in civil lawsuits over false arrest didn't stop the behavior. It became so pervasive that courts are sometimes stripping officers of qualified immunity. (see Glik v. Cunniffe for a case where that was upheld all the way to the Federal court of appeals) Interfering this way is a violation of the 1st and 4th amendments, and that's very settled case law.
Simply, if officers stop assaulting and arresting photographers merely for recording, they won't have a problem. If 'showing up' is all it takes to catch you breaking the law, perhaps the problem is you.
Ya'll watch too much TV. If you want to see what a police officer does then ask to do a full shift ride-along. It's rather eye opening.
Except for the times when there was a second photographer the officer didn't spot. Then we get video of the officer disabling the camera and assaulting the first photographer. One case in Florida, we had video of the officer pushing the photographer backwards down stairs. (I've had a serious neck injury - that video gave me chills - if the photographer hadn't been slowed by the railing he could have been killed or paralyzed)
Go photograph a police station from a public sidewalk for a few hours. When you can reliably do that entirely legal action without an armed confrontation get back to me and we'll talk about it again.
After witnessing NOLA police assault a photographer before assaulting and arresting a nearby group of people I'm not accepting the sort of unfounded assertion you've made. (I later found out the group was planning a small 'unauthorized' parade down a sidewalk outside of the crowded parts of Bourbon st. Since they stayed on the sidewalk, and traveled roughly single file they didn't block traffic or impede pedestrians making what they did entirely legal. The officers put a stop to it anyway, and made sure there wouldn't be a record of what they did. I was passing by and got caught in the cordon preventing anyone from leaving while ordering them to disperse. I managed to lean against a light pole and stay as the cordon passed me.)
There is no demand for a crappy head mounted 3D screen, and little demand for a 3D TV that works only from one angle with special glasses.
Working immersive VR is a winner though. These latest headsets are getting very close for the first time. If this generation doesn't manage it, the next one will. It's VR headset time.
" Creating such artificial environment will put girls to have wrong understanding of their capabilities, and they will suffer even greater dissapointment when they go out on the competitive labor marker after 5 years of education."
It seems more likely that the goal is to train them to compete in the H1B visa TATA minimum wage STEM market envisioned for the future.
1) If women perceive your "kind and friendly" behavior as "creepy," then you are not behaving "kind and friendly." You are, in fact, behaving like a "creep."
Pardon me for calling bullshit, but I know how to be polite and respectful just as my mother taught me.
The thing is, I'm not tall, dark and handsome-- I'm not tje "bad boy" type that these "rare birds" find sexy, ergo they dismiss me.
Remember, we're talking about "pretty girls," the ones who have been pampered and babied and put on pedestals all their lives. The plain-jane types are much more willing to talk to me and always assure me that I'm not behaving creepy in any way.
If you're a nice guy but not physically gorgeous and/or rich, your attention is not wanted by these women, ergo you are a "creep" for even talking to them.
This is exactly correct. I grew up an ugly duckling, then filled out in my mid twenties. The transition from 'can do no right' to 'can do no wrong' was striking. One slight adjustment though. If she's a drama queen, talking isn't required. Being in the same place and ignoring her is enough because you're 'gross'.
While wiring under the desk in a cubicle, three women in the next row over were talking and didn't realize I was there. They were coordinating the three false sexual harassment claims they were going to (and did) make to get a male co-worker fired because they considered him unattractive and wanted him replaced with someone hotter. (HR told me to STFU when I reported that, then acted on what the women said - they were concerned with liability/lawsuit expense not truth or justice) Later one of those three women propositioned me, making a threat of a false harassment claim against me if I didn't sleep with her - and I already knew HR would back *her* up without question.
I have this friend. She's blond, six foot, blue eyes, loves wearing five inch heels, and is a bit of an exhibitionist. Gorgeous. Loves dressing up. She also has a BS in computer science and a master's degree in mathematcs. She works conventions as a 'booth babe' for fun. Her stories about tearing into some dork who thinks she's just some dumb blonde are priceless. Shame to spoil her fun.
O M G! I'd love to be a fly on the wall, that sounds hilarious. A bored brilliant woman in a target rich environment - priceless! She could troll for victims all day... I'm still laughing about the concept!
They believe it soooo much they've make a clickbait article with more column inches of booth babe pictures than text - and no pics of booth grandma. Suuuuure they think that, this certainly isn't do as I say not as I do...
I have Comcast business connections at three locations. There is a quality option, but it's not cheap or what you'll get if you just order through the retain website.
Two locations are retail Business accounts. Those are home connections with an extra charge fixed IP and slightly less crappy customer service.
One location is fiber and seems to be run by an entirely different subsidiary of the company. It costs 15x what the other connections do, is fast, low latency and problem free.
And auto makers to selling data about my frequent speeding to improve $afety via highway patrol.
The Mark II version will simply report on you and you'll get your ticket in the mail, bypassing the insurance company. (well, they'll raise your rates and get a cut too) I can't wait for the redlight camera scam version of that where they 'misprogram' a road at 15mph below the posted speed and ticket everyone.
And fighting FOIA requests in a friendly court to set a precedent that FOIA doesn't apply to 'The most transparent admin ever'. The court ruling is the result of the Whitehouse opposing transparency.
It's one arm of the federal gov't empowering another. The judicial wolf pack approved the Whitehouse wolf packs choice of mutton for dinner. Political sheep hail victory by 'their' pack, not realizing what being invited to mutton dinner means. (to paraphrase 'tyranny is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner')
In bright light, we see better with daylight 5,500K(ish) color. When illumination levels drop to the point our night vision begins to be a significant factor (rods and cones) a warmer light is easier to see by. I prefer 3,500-4,000K myself, a bit bluer than halogen (though halogen is fine).
This makes it 10x more likely the case will go the distance.
Assuming the Gov't doesn't feel empowered enough to simply throw the suit out 'because screw you, what are you gonna do about it?', they'll win a CoIntelPro victory where 'that' intel program is shut down. Of course it's shut down by re-shuffling it's duties into a slightly different structure with new names. The wholesale warrant-less spying doesn't slow down for a moment. Those with the power to meaningfully reign it in are the biggest beneficiaries of what the NSA is doing.
nvidia did much more egregious deceptive marketing well over a decade ago in the GeForce4 MX,
Really? I had one of those cards, what was wrong with it?
No. The idiot chump who made the purchasing decision and bought the card even though it did not have programmable shaders and didn't say it had programmable shaders is the one who did the company real financial damage. The GF4MX never claimed to have programmable shaders. Are you that idiot? Or did the GF4MX just touch you somewhere? Can you show us on this picture of the internet where nVidia touched you?
The GeForce 3 was a new processor core supporting DX8. The Geforce 4 line was marketed as an updated GF3 core supporting DX9, but Nvidia sold warmed over Geforce 2 cores supporting only DX7 labeled as Geforce 4 without making the switch clear - in fact burying any disclosure of what that meant in terms of performance and compatibility.
At launch at retail from what I remember, the posters and pamphlets touted the GF4 cores supporting DX9. The box for the GF4 MX cards didn't contain any information outside the shrink wrap to let a customer know it was really a GF2 with a higher clock. If you advertise 'Buy GF4 for Direct X 9 capability' then your GF4 parts need to deliver that or you're being deceptive. It's not acceptable to require consumers to learn processor architecture to know the marketing material aren't true, rather the marketing mustn't contain out right lies.
Yeah. It's soooo tough to, just for example, go grab the information at Apple servers directly after Apple announces end to end encryption. They already know where to get the information in the clear, and that's assuming they don't already have a secret court order compelling Apple to turn that information over. They don't -say- it's safe from oversight, just that it's encrypted in transit.
The public noise about encryption is more likely a ruse to get people to keep putting information in the cloud where it can be taken easily. After being caught at cointelpro, what actually happened was rearranging the deck chairs while not stopping the illegal spying for one moment. If you think you're getting something even tamper resistant from an Apple or Google you're the sucker born every minute PT Barnum talked about. Their encryption is to keep your cable/phone company from snooping and getting the same creepy stalking marketing information about you that they collect. It's there to block the competition, not the NSA.
For cloud safety, the data has to be encrypted with keys only you have on your side. You'll also have to use tools not provided by the cloud service, or compromising the tool is too easy an attack. Then only sync the encrypted blob onto the cloud. (and be very careful with that key)
Yes, they have F8 lenses. Ebay is full of them. Parent is referring to the manual focus fixed aperture mirror lenses. Those use a telescope design that renders out of focus areas in an unpleasant way, and out of focus highlights terribly.
In the real world, they're one trick ponies only useful if you can contrive a scene where everything is in focus to avoid the poor bokeh, you have time to manual focus and there is enough light to use F8 and still have a reasonable shutter speed. Those lenses exist on the market only because proper full frame 500mm lenses cost thousands of dollars. It's more useful to get (bright light only) budget 500-600mm by adding a small sensor superzoom camera to your collection. You'll get image stabilization, lighter weight and (slow) autofocus too.
Yep. Valerian root is a great sleeping pill too. (FYI: The capsules smell like they'll taste terrible, but are tasteless) I used that and benadryl in place of Ambien, which needs to be take off the market. Everyone I know who's used Ambien had memory problem side effects. (recall, memory fixing, amnesiatic episodes)
Tough shit: if those companies hadn't tried to ruin the internet in years past with popups, popunders, flashing banner ads,...
You forgot serving malware dropping ads they claim they're not responsible for, while shaming users as thieves for blocking those infection vectors. Flashblock + Adblock edge dropped our employee's infection rate to 1/3. When I can recover damages from website who infect my systems, I'll review the decision to ad block.
The law of unintended consequences would kick in... because the minute the government goes around taking companies, everyone else sees this...
Then the government discovered what a great money maker this is, and goes after all companies for anything they might be doing wrong...
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What you are suggesting has actually been done, in other countries... it isn't pretty...
Countries like the US with asset forfeiture laws creating a special interest group and cottage industry around the legal fiction that your assets are a person and you have no legal standing if they're 'incarcerated'. My introduction was while I was renewing my sales tax license. I overheard a conversation next to me. The person had been pulled over and arrested on invented drug charges which were thrown out in court because they were baseless (it sounded like friends pooled money for a defense lawyer). In the meantime the State had seized and sold his car, and taken his life savings from his bank accounts. The clerk was explaining to him that 'It's our policy to retain those funds after trial'.
So the state got paid, and the lawyers got paid - and now we know why he was pulled over for 'waste of time' charges...
Apparently just taking everything is only a good idea if you're too small to make large political contributions.
But if they only reduced their violence output by 60%, why the 90% fall in reports?
The police were more likely to act as we expect them too, and the criminals were less likely to make false claims they knew would be futile. I'd be suspicious if there was any other result.
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They tried to screw us consumers, and we were able to stop them. They didn't think better of it and stop, it's purely that they couldn't profit from it.
I think the question people need to start asking themselves, first, is WHY they're filming in the first place.
I'm a photographer. My answer to that question is - so I don't face 10-20 years in jail on falsified charges made by an officer in retaliation for my recording - or just because I was nearby with a professional camera.
Assaulting photographers simply for recording is a crime. Falsifying charges against a photographer is a crime. Destroying a photographers (often extremely expensive) equipment is a crime. Those things became so common, so pervasive that holding a professional camera near an officer was known to be dangerous.
Some news photographers began filming each other so they'd have evidence when they were arrested on false charges. In some areas, the illegal assaults and false arrests escalated.
That's escalation pissed off otherwise disinterested people enough that they'll record just to preserve the right to record. Departments and cities backed the officers actions, so civil lawsuits followed. Repeated losses in civil lawsuits over false arrest didn't stop the behavior. It became so pervasive that courts are sometimes stripping officers of qualified immunity. (see Glik v. Cunniffe for a case where that was upheld all the way to the Federal court of appeals) Interfering this way is a violation of the 1st and 4th amendments, and that's very settled case law.
Simply, if officers stop assaulting and arresting photographers merely for recording, they won't have a problem. If 'showing up' is all it takes to catch you breaking the law, perhaps the problem is you.
Ya'll watch too much TV. If you want to see what a police officer does then ask to do a full shift ride-along. It's rather eye opening.
Except for the times when there was a second photographer the officer didn't spot. Then we get video of the officer disabling the camera and assaulting the first photographer. One case in Florida, we had video of the officer pushing the photographer backwards down stairs. (I've had a serious neck injury - that video gave me chills - if the photographer hadn't been slowed by the railing he could have been killed or paralyzed) Go photograph a police station from a public sidewalk for a few hours. When you can reliably do that entirely legal action without an armed confrontation get back to me and we'll talk about it again.
After witnessing NOLA police assault a photographer before assaulting and arresting a nearby group of people I'm not accepting the sort of unfounded assertion you've made. (I later found out the group was planning a small 'unauthorized' parade down a sidewalk outside of the crowded parts of Bourbon st. Since they stayed on the sidewalk, and traveled roughly single file they didn't block traffic or impede pedestrians making what they did entirely legal. The officers put a stop to it anyway, and made sure there wouldn't be a record of what they did. I was passing by and got caught in the cordon preventing anyone from leaving while ordering them to disperse. I managed to lean against a light pole and stay as the cordon passed me.)
There is real demand for VR.
There is no demand for a crappy head mounted 3D screen, and little demand for a 3D TV that works only from one angle with special glasses.
Working immersive VR is a winner though. These latest headsets are getting very close for the first time. If this generation doesn't manage it, the next one will. It's VR headset time.
No viable replacement was offered until mid 2009 (Win7). New PCs with XP were deployed (certainly in business) until then. That isn't 14 years.
It is pretty clear what happens to the assets of criminals
When you lose a war utterly, your property is what the victor says it is. The property of someone as infamous as him is as forfeit as his life.
" Creating such artificial environment will put girls to have wrong understanding of their capabilities, and they will suffer even greater dissapointment when they go out on the competitive labor marker after 5 years of education."
It seems more likely that the goal is to train them to compete in the H1B visa TATA minimum wage STEM market envisioned for the future.
Pardon me for calling bullshit, but I know how to be polite and respectful just as my mother taught me.
The thing is, I'm not tall, dark and handsome-- I'm not tje "bad boy" type that these "rare birds" find sexy, ergo they dismiss me.
Remember, we're talking about "pretty girls," the ones who have been pampered and babied and put on pedestals all their lives. The plain-jane types are much more willing to talk to me and always assure me that I'm not behaving creepy in any way.
If you're a nice guy but not physically gorgeous and/or rich, your attention is not wanted by these women, ergo you are a "creep" for even talking to them.
This is exactly correct. I grew up an ugly duckling, then filled out in my mid twenties. The transition from 'can do no right' to 'can do no wrong' was striking.
One slight adjustment though. If she's a drama queen, talking isn't required. Being in the same place and ignoring her is enough because you're 'gross'.
While wiring under the desk in a cubicle, three women in the next row over were talking and didn't realize I was there. They were coordinating the three false sexual harassment claims they were going to (and did) make to get a male co-worker fired because they considered him unattractive and wanted him replaced with someone hotter. (HR told me to STFU when I reported that, then acted on what the women said - they were concerned with liability/lawsuit expense not truth or justice) Later one of those three women propositioned me, making a threat of a false harassment claim against me if I didn't sleep with her - and I already knew HR would back *her* up without question.
I have this friend. She's blond, six foot, blue eyes, loves wearing five inch heels, and is a bit of an exhibitionist. Gorgeous. Loves dressing up. She also has a BS in computer science and a master's degree in mathematcs. She works conventions as a 'booth babe' for fun. Her stories about tearing into some dork who thinks she's just some dumb blonde are priceless. Shame to spoil her fun.
O M G! I'd love to be a fly on the wall, that sounds hilarious. A bored brilliant woman in a target rich environment - priceless! She could troll for victims all day... I'm still laughing about the concept!
Found it. Spencer Chen, last year: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/...
They believe it soooo much they've make a clickbait article with more column inches of booth babe pictures than text - and no pics of booth grandma. Suuuuure they think that, this certainly isn't do as I say not as I do...
But, a lot of the slut shaming I see is done by guys. What does that fit into this picture?
White Knighting mostly.
I have Comcast business connections at three locations. There is a quality option, but it's not cheap or what you'll get if you just order through the retain website.
Two locations are retail Business accounts. Those are home connections with an extra charge fixed IP and slightly less crappy customer service.
One location is fiber and seems to be run by an entirely different subsidiary of the company. It costs 15x what the other connections do, is fast, low latency and problem free.
And auto makers to selling data about my frequent speeding to improve $afety via highway patrol.
The Mark II version will simply report on you and you'll get your ticket in the mail, bypassing the insurance company. (well, they'll raise your rates and get a cut too) I can't wait for the redlight camera scam version of that where they 'misprogram' a road at 15mph below the posted speed and ticket everyone.
And fighting FOIA requests in a friendly court to set a precedent that FOIA doesn't apply to 'The most transparent admin ever'. The court ruling is the result of the Whitehouse opposing transparency.
It's one arm of the federal gov't empowering another. The judicial wolf pack approved the Whitehouse wolf packs choice of mutton for dinner. Political sheep hail victory by 'their' pack, not realizing what being invited to mutton dinner means. (to paraphrase 'tyranny is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner')
In bright light, we see better with daylight 5,500K(ish) color. When illumination levels drop to the point our night vision begins to be a significant factor (rods and cones) a warmer light is easier to see by. I prefer 3,500-4,000K myself, a bit bluer than halogen (though halogen is fine).
This makes it 10x more likely the case will go the distance.
Assuming the Gov't doesn't feel empowered enough to simply throw the suit out 'because screw you, what are you gonna do about it?', they'll win a CoIntelPro victory where 'that' intel program is shut down. Of course it's shut down by re-shuffling it's duties into a slightly different structure with new names. The wholesale warrant-less spying doesn't slow down for a moment. Those with the power to meaningfully reign it in are the biggest beneficiaries of what the NSA is doing.
nvidia did much more egregious deceptive marketing well over a decade ago in the GeForce4 MX,
Really? I had one of those cards, what was wrong with it?
No. The idiot chump who made the purchasing decision and bought the card even though it did not have programmable shaders and didn't say it had programmable shaders is the one who did the company real financial damage. The GF4MX never claimed to have programmable shaders. Are you that idiot? Or did the GF4MX just touch you somewhere? Can you show us on this picture of the internet where nVidia touched you?
The GeForce 3 was a new processor core supporting DX8. The Geforce 4 line was marketed as an updated GF3 core supporting DX9, but Nvidia sold warmed over Geforce 2 cores supporting only DX7 labeled as Geforce 4 without making the switch clear - in fact burying any disclosure of what that meant in terms of performance and compatibility.
At launch at retail from what I remember, the posters and pamphlets touted the GF4 cores supporting DX9. The box for the GF4 MX cards didn't contain any information outside the shrink wrap to let a customer know it was really a GF2 with a higher clock. If you advertise 'Buy GF4 for Direct X 9 capability' then your GF4 parts need to deliver that or you're being deceptive. It's not acceptable to require consumers to learn processor architecture to know the marketing material aren't true, rather the marketing mustn't contain out right lies.
The ONE think they fear is effective encryption.
Yeah. It's soooo tough to, just for example, go grab the information at Apple servers directly after Apple announces end to end encryption. They already know where to get the information in the clear, and that's assuming they don't already have a secret court order compelling Apple to turn that information over. They don't -say- it's safe from oversight, just that it's encrypted in transit.
The public noise about encryption is more likely a ruse to get people to keep putting information in the cloud where it can be taken easily. After being caught at cointelpro, what actually happened was rearranging the deck chairs while not stopping the illegal spying for one moment. If you think you're getting something even tamper resistant from an Apple or Google you're the sucker born every minute PT Barnum talked about. Their encryption is to keep your cable/phone company from snooping and getting the same creepy stalking marketing information about you that they collect. It's there to block the competition, not the NSA.
For cloud safety, the data has to be encrypted with keys only you have on your side. You'll also have to use tools not provided by the cloud service, or compromising the tool is too easy an attack. Then only sync the encrypted blob onto the cloud. (and be very careful with that key)
Yes, they have F8 lenses. Ebay is full of them. Parent is referring to the manual focus fixed aperture mirror lenses. Those use a telescope design that renders out of focus areas in an unpleasant way, and out of focus highlights terribly.
In the real world, they're one trick ponies only useful if you can contrive a scene where everything is in focus to avoid the poor bokeh, you have time to manual focus and there is enough light to use F8 and still have a reasonable shutter speed. Those lenses exist on the market only because proper full frame 500mm lenses cost thousands of dollars. It's more useful to get (bright light only) budget 500-600mm by adding a small sensor superzoom camera to your collection. You'll get image stabilization, lighter weight and (slow) autofocus too.
Yep. Valerian root is a great sleeping pill too. (FYI: The capsules smell like they'll taste terrible, but are tasteless) I used that and benadryl in place of Ambien, which needs to be take off the market. Everyone I know who's used Ambien had memory problem side effects. (recall, memory fixing, amnesiatic episodes)
Tough shit: if those companies hadn't tried to ruin the internet in years past with popups, popunders, flashing banner ads, ...
You forgot serving malware dropping ads they claim they're not responsible for, while shaming users as thieves for blocking those infection vectors. Flashblock + Adblock edge dropped our employee's infection rate to 1/3. When I can recover damages from website who infect my systems, I'll review the decision to ad block.
The law of unintended consequences would kick in... because the minute the government goes around taking companies, everyone else sees this...
Then the government discovered what a great money maker this is, and goes after all companies for anything they might be doing wrong...
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What you are suggesting has actually been done, in other countries... it isn't pretty...
Countries like the US with asset forfeiture laws creating a special interest group and cottage industry around the legal fiction that your assets are a person and you have no legal standing if they're 'incarcerated'. My introduction was while I was renewing my sales tax license. I overheard a conversation next to me. The person had been pulled over and arrested on invented drug charges which were thrown out in court because they were baseless (it sounded like friends pooled money for a defense lawyer). In the meantime the State had seized and sold his car, and taken his life savings from his bank accounts. The clerk was explaining to him that 'It's our policy to retain those funds after trial'.
So the state got paid, and the lawyers got paid - and now we know why he was pulled over for 'waste of time' charges...
Apparently just taking everything is only a good idea if you're too small to make large political contributions.
But if they only reduced their violence output by 60%, why the 90% fall in reports?
The police were more likely to act as we expect them too, and the criminals were less likely to make false claims they knew would be futile. I'd be suspicious if there was any other result.
For every bad cop we hear about, know that an entire fucking department has facilitated his behavior,
And the police union, for getting the ones so bad they were fired reinstated with back pay.
I will never understand when it became ok for those charged with enforcing the law to lie without shame.
Then in court these professional liars are held up as the most credible of witnesses.