I am OK with technology helping police do their jobs
You're OK with them jailing your friends and family for doing somthing that harms no one? Someone you know and love smokes pot. You're OK with them being put in jail?
Now with license plate readers I would expect unlike my address records the licence plate reader will be better integrated
You would have just gotten pulled over and ticketed sooner.
We even had a case in my City where people were getting Traffic Tickets Years after the incident because of automated readers just because the state hadn't got caught up with the paper work
People who have never been in Chicago get parking tickets in Chicago.
It's already been proven that Linux & Mac OS's can also be infected
I don't think "infected" is the right word for a trojan. However, Windows is the only OS that one could get infected by a virus (not trojan) by simply opening an email or visiting a web page.
That said, Windows is a lot more secure than it used to be. I doubt anyone but the click-happy who are dumb enough to answer "would you like to let this program change your computer?" would say "yes" if they thought they were going to a linked web page.
MS bakes their IE browser into the the OS: [Slashdot opinion] this is the most evil thing ever and they are evil in gaining a "unfair" advantage.
MS doesn't bake skydrive into their OS instead using a app so all cloud storage apps are on equal footing:[Slashdot opinion] This is the most stupid idea ever, why wouldn't they bake it into the OS!
Nobody's asking that Microsoft "bake skydive into the OS", just that one should make it appear that it's part of the file system. Nobody demanded that IE not be available, just that it not be part of the OS. If you "bake skydrive into the OS" so it can't be removed, that would be like IE and Windows and yes, we would rightfully bitch about that.
You're saying there are only 35 cities in the US? That's so incorrect it's moronic. By your accounting, a hundred years ago there were only five cities in the US, few if any state capitols are in a city, many states have no cities at all, and 92.5% of Americans live in the boonies. Yes, I did the math with figures from wikipedia.
Perhaps your definition of "city" is a bit... retarded? Mods, he's not trolling, he's learning-disabled. "Overrated" would have been more fair. Be nice to the kids on the short bus!
Sorry to hear about your mom. I had to have surgery for a detached retina as well, but I got lucky there, too. I wound up with slightly better vision after my vitrectomy simply because all the floaters were gone.
I haven't heard of the silicone thing before, what they did for my detachment was to replace the vitrious with nitrogen gas, and I had to keep my head down for a week and a half afterward until the nitrogen was replaced naturally with new fluid.
Neither surgery was exactly fun, although neither was painful (the vitrectomy was painful, but it was from the arthritis in my neck aching because my head was bolted to the table)..
I know enough to know that only a small minority of patients are a danger to others.
That is true, and also, if one of the few who are dangerous is getting treatment, the doctor will know most of the time. Mentally ill people are far more likely to commit suicide than murder.
In particular, depressed patients rarely act out; they just become passive, and even taking their own life tends to require a huge effort for them.
A;so true, and is the reason some patients commit suicide shortly after starting SSRIs -- they were too sick to have the incentive to do anything, and when the pills start working, they get well enough to go through with it.
The average ex-convict is much more likely to commit acts of violence than the average mentally ill person.
Also true, although I suspect that the average ex-convict is mentally ill.
It can, and will, be used against you in custody cases
That may be so in come places, but I know for a fact is isn't the case in Illinois. When my ex-wife deserted me and our daughters, she tried to get them back by calling DCFS anonymously saying the house was dirty and there was drug use. My doctor had prescribed Paxil* for "adjustment disorder with depressed mood". When the invastigator asked if I was on drugs, I said "yes, Paxil." She said "really? I'm on Paxil too!"
* I would encourage everyone to NOT take SSRIs EVER unless they've already attempted or contemplated suicide. The only time in my life I ever thought about killing myself was when the doctor took me off the drug just as I was moving out of my foreclosed home. That is some seriously powerful stuff.
certainly requires a lot of skill but you aren't twitching the stick and throttle and braking every 2 seconds
If you're "twitching the throttle" and braking every two seconds in your you're following way too close and wasting gasoline and brake pads. In fact, you're probably dangerously close. STOP THAT!!! And please never get a pilot's license.
Here in Springfield, IL they arrested a coupe of people for criticizing a state congressman by writing their message in chalk on the public sidewalk, just as children do every day. They were charged with vandalism, even though the chalk is gone after the first rain, and no children have ever been arrested or even warned about writing in chalk on public sidewalks.
But at least these protesters weren't beaten, so yeah, it matters where.
I used to believe that old saying, until the first time I played a well-crafted guitar. Bad tools do indeed create bad workmanship. Of course, if the workman chose those tools, then it's correct, but not if he's forced to use substandard tools.
PHB: "OK, we want accuracy but low cost. So measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, and cut it with an axe."
Workman: "I, uh..."
PHB: "You have a problem with that?"
And you're talking abbout organizations here; give the Cubs a hitter like Sammy Sosa (including that great tool, the corked bat), and they'll still not win the world series.
While I'm not eager to incorporate bioengineering into my person, I also am not a position where my quality of life would be marginally improved by such.
The last half of that sentence is insightful. Would I get invasive eye surgery to get an internet-enabled HUD? Hell no. But I was severely nearsighted all my life, legally blind without my glassses. After my CrystaLens implant (an artificial lens implanted in the eye that focuses naturally, like a young person's eyes) I no longer need corrective lenses, not even reading glasses, and I turned 60 this year.
If your retina was deteriorated to the point that you were blind, you would indeed be assimilated, just like I was. This is excellent news for a woman I know who used to tend bar at Felbers. Her diabetes and resultant retinal degeneration finally made her unable to work, even as a bartender. This would help her immensely.
However, I didn't read TFA but I did read about this a day or two ago, and the summary is a lot more optomistic than the FA I read. Of course, it may be the one Google News served up was a stinker and the one linked here is a good one... that happens, sometimes.
This is the stuff of science fiction... and science.
At my age, stuff you have been familiar with all your life is science fiction to me. Cell phones, flat screen computers, space shuttles, manned space stations, robots on Mars, space telescopes, even my implant were all science fiction when Star Trek came out. Now, McCoy would be jealous of a modern hospital, Star Trek IV notwithstanding; I mean McCoy on TV, not the movies that came two decades later. And even then, in Star Trek II McCoy gave Kirk reading glasses, when he could have simply transported Kirk's lenses out of his eyes and implanted (via the transporter of course) a pair of CrystaLens. My implant was beyond science fiction in 1982, but approved by the FDA in 2003.
You young people are going to be amazed at the technology that will be here when you're my age. You will see the impossible happen. You will see stuff that costs millions of dollars today for a couple hundred, and better -- when I was 12 I saw my first computer, a huge building sized thing. Nobody ever imagined that there would be notebook computers far more powerful than anything that existed then in most people's homes and cost a few hundred bucks. Not in a million years did I ever think I'd not only not need glasses, but have better than 20/20 vision.
Where's Samantha Wright when you need her? You know, the one whose sig reads "I'm a biologist, ask me biology questions in my journal" that she seldom updates? In fact, where are any other biologists in this thread???
Being held for 24 hours is the same as being convicted of something and oredered to serve 24 hours in jail. When you're detained, they don't put you in a comfy chair in a comfortable room, they put you in an orange jumpsuit, barely feed you, give you a thin plastic matress about an inch thick on a concrete slab, locked up, often with violent prisoners who have been convicted of crimes.
Being held for 24 hours IS punishment in and of itself. Punishment without trial, I might add.
You could end up with a diagnosis which is a social stigma, and makes it harder for you to find work or deal with the authorities.
All the more reason to be treated. And someone with severe clinical depression is usually unable to work, period.
You may get a diagnosis or treatment without knowing it, because the doctor either forgets or doesn't think it's important to tell you when he changes either of them.
I don't think that's legal. It's at least malpractice.
Seeking treatment for mental health issues constitutes a risk, both in terms of medical side effects, and in terms of the social stigma
Nobody is going to know you're being treated for mental illness unless you tell them. In the US, a doctor who looses (not: not "loses") a patient's medical information can have his licence yanked and worse. And besides, anyone who stigmatizes someone for a medical condition is themselves either crazy or stupid. Mental illnesses are no different than any other illness; the patient didn't aske for it, and it isn't their fault.
I'm sorry, but your comment shows a complete and utter lack of knowledge about the subject. Do you even know any mental patients? Did you know that mental illness is dangerous both to the patient and to others? Depressed people often kill themselves. Had the guy who shot that congresswoman in Arizona gotten treatment, all those people he killed would still be alive. Had the Batman murderer in Colorado gotten treatment earlier, that massacre probably wouldn't have happened either )of course in that case, the authorities fucked up -- his shrink warned the campus police that he was a danger, but they did nothing. Had they followed through, he wouldn't have been able to legally buy those guns)..
I could have sworn I saw this exact same story at slashdot a year ago... and someone in that thread made the exact same comment. Is this story a dupe, or a rerun?
I know a woman with a similar story (Amy, for those of you who read my JEs). She had a horrible childhood, married a man who beat her so severely he went to prison for it and she had to have reconstructive surgey, then the next guy she hooked up with committed suicide. She self-medicated with alcohol and became a hopeless alcoholic, and was homeless most of the time.
She finally got help. She's on Paxil now, attending AA daily, and is in transitional housing. She's doing well.
Previously when she tried to get help, they were sure the alcohol was causing the depresion, despite the fact that she suffered depression long before she started drinking so would send her to rehab, which of course didn't do anything whatever for the underlying problem. Whenever she got out of rehab, the first place she'd go was a bar. I would guess that a large proportion of drug addicts and alcoholics are self-medicating "mental patients" who can't get help with their disability, because they're simply seen as drunks and druggies.
I've had several since some kind anonymous soul bought a subscription for me. I don't see what the big deal is about FP. Is that for those who have trouble getting a +5?
To stay on topic here, I hope I didn't depress you...
A flying car woudn't be practical for short trips, but I live 100 miles away from my mom, 250 miles from my dad, 300 miles from my youngest daughter. A flying car that would do 150 mph would cut travel time in half, and any small airplane will go that fast. Make it twice that and I could get to St Louis in twenty minutes instead of an hour and a half.
Instead of buying a brand new giant truck, just buy one that's five years old and you can afford a five year old smaller car as well. Since the vehicles together are worth less than the new truck, your insurance costs as well as your gasoline costs will go down as well.
My car would have cost $30,000 new. I paid $10,000 for it, and it looked, smelled, handled, and performed just like a new car... actually better than one or two new cars I'd bought. I gave up buying new cars when my month old Rabbit's alternator died 80 miles from home.
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I am OK with technology helping police do their jobs
You're OK with them jailing your friends and family for doing somthing that harms no one? Someone you know and love smokes pot. You're OK with them being put in jail?
Now with license plate readers I would expect unlike my address records the licence plate reader will be better integrated
You would have just gotten pulled over and ticketed sooner.
We even had a case in my City where people were getting Traffic Tickets Years after the incident because of automated readers just because the state hadn't got caught up with the paper work
People who have never been in Chicago get parking tickets in Chicago.
It's already been proven that Linux & Mac OS's can also be infected
I don't think "infected" is the right word for a trojan. However, Windows is the only OS that one could get infected by a virus (not trojan) by simply opening an email or visiting a web page.
That said, Windows is a lot more secure than it used to be. I doubt anyone but the click-happy who are dumb enough to answer "would you like to let this program change your computer?" would say "yes" if they thought they were going to a linked web page.
MS bakes their IE browser into the the OS: [Slashdot opinion] this is the most evil thing ever and they are evil in gaining a "unfair" advantage.
MS doesn't bake skydrive into their OS instead using a app so all cloud storage apps are on equal footing:[Slashdot opinion] This is the most stupid idea ever, why wouldn't they bake it into the OS!
Nobody's asking that Microsoft "bake skydive into the OS", just that one should make it appear that it's part of the file system. Nobody demanded that IE not be available, just that it not be part of the OS. If you "bake skydrive into the OS" so it can't be removed, that would be like IE and Windows and yes, we would rightfully bitch about that.
Hope I cleared that up for you.
We might actually be better-off without the 3-letter agencies.
Like EPA, FDA? Nope, I can't agree. You like dirty air and lakes, and no labeling in food AT ALL? No mandated testing of new drugs?
Some 3 letter agencies I agree with; ATF, TSA, NSA, sure. Get rid of them. Let me get my pitchfork...
Dude, this is Microsoft, not Linux. Microsoft isn't capable of doing anything like that.
You're saying there are only 35 cities in the US? That's so incorrect it's moronic. By your accounting, a hundred years ago there were only five cities in the US, few if any state capitols are in a city, many states have no cities at all, and 92.5% of Americans live in the boonies. Yes, I did the math with figures from wikipedia.
Perhaps your definition of "city" is a bit... retarded? Mods, he's not trolling, he's learning-disabled. "Overrated" would have been more fair. Be nice to the kids on the short bus!
Sorry to hear about your mom. I had to have surgery for a detached retina as well, but I got lucky there, too. I wound up with slightly better vision after my vitrectomy simply because all the floaters were gone.
I haven't heard of the silicone thing before, what they did for my detachment was to replace the vitrious with nitrogen gas, and I had to keep my head down for a week and a half afterward until the nitrogen was replaced naturally with new fluid.
Neither surgery was exactly fun, although neither was painful (the vitrectomy was painful, but it was from the arthritis in my neck aching because my head was bolted to the table)..
Yes, four literes in two hours is probably dangerous, but not speard out over a whole day.
Some like a big ass, some like a small ass, but nobody likes a smartass punk.
I know enough to know that only a small minority of patients are a danger to others.
That is true, and also, if one of the few who are dangerous is getting treatment, the doctor will know most of the time. Mentally ill people are far more likely to commit suicide than murder.
In particular, depressed patients rarely act out; they just become passive, and even taking their own life tends to require a huge effort for them.
A;so true, and is the reason some patients commit suicide shortly after starting SSRIs -- they were too sick to have the incentive to do anything, and when the pills start working, they get well enough to go through with it.
The average ex-convict is much more likely to commit acts of violence than the average mentally ill person.
Also true, although I suspect that the average ex-convict is mentally ill.
It can, and will, be used against you in custody cases
That may be so in come places, but I know for a fact is isn't the case in Illinois. When my ex-wife deserted me and our daughters, she tried to get them back by calling DCFS anonymously saying the house was dirty and there was drug use. My doctor had prescribed Paxil* for "adjustment disorder with depressed mood". When the invastigator asked if I was on drugs, I said "yes, Paxil." She said "really? I'm on Paxil too!"
* I would encourage everyone to NOT take SSRIs EVER unless they've already attempted or contemplated suicide. The only time in my life I ever thought about killing myself was when the doctor took me off the drug just as I was moving out of my foreclosed home. That is some seriously powerful stuff.
You have it wrong. MTV is txtspk for "empty-V". Thay used to actually be a music channel, although they were crappy back then, too.
I went to your link and saw nothing but advertising.
certainly requires a lot of skill but you aren't twitching the stick and throttle and braking every 2 seconds
If you're "twitching the throttle" and braking every two seconds in your you're following way too close and wasting gasoline and brake pads. In fact, you're probably dangerously close. STOP THAT!!! And please never get a pilot's license.
Here in Springfield, IL they arrested a coupe of people for criticizing a state congressman by writing their message in chalk on the public sidewalk, just as children do every day. They were charged with vandalism, even though the chalk is gone after the first rain, and no children have ever been arrested or even warned about writing in chalk on public sidewalks.
But at least these protesters weren't beaten, so yeah, it matters where.
I used to believe that old saying, until the first time I played a well-crafted guitar. Bad tools do indeed create bad workmanship. Of course, if the workman chose those tools, then it's correct, but not if he's forced to use substandard tools.
PHB: "OK, we want accuracy but low cost. So measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, and cut it with an axe."
Workman: "I, uh..."
PHB: "You have a problem with that?"
And you're talking abbout organizations here; give the Cubs a hitter like Sammy Sosa (including that great tool, the corked bat), and they'll still not win the world series.
While I'm not eager to incorporate bioengineering into my person, I also am not a position where my quality of life would be marginally improved by such.
The last half of that sentence is insightful. Would I get invasive eye surgery to get an internet-enabled HUD? Hell no. But I was severely nearsighted all my life, legally blind without my glassses. After my CrystaLens implant (an artificial lens implanted in the eye that focuses naturally, like a young person's eyes) I no longer need corrective lenses, not even reading glasses, and I turned 60 this year.
If your retina was deteriorated to the point that you were blind, you would indeed be assimilated, just like I was. This is excellent news for a woman I know who used to tend bar at Felbers. Her diabetes and resultant retinal degeneration finally made her unable to work, even as a bartender. This would help her immensely.
However, I didn't read TFA but I did read about this a day or two ago, and the summary is a lot more optomistic than the FA I read. Of course, it may be the one Google News served up was a stinker and the one linked here is a good one... that happens, sometimes.
This is the stuff of science fiction... and science.
At my age, stuff you have been familiar with all your life is science fiction to me. Cell phones, flat screen computers, space shuttles, manned space stations, robots on Mars, space telescopes, even my implant were all science fiction when Star Trek came out. Now, McCoy would be jealous of a modern hospital, Star Trek IV notwithstanding; I mean McCoy on TV, not the movies that came two decades later. And even then, in Star Trek II McCoy gave Kirk reading glasses, when he could have simply transported Kirk's lenses out of his eyes and implanted (via the transporter of course) a pair of CrystaLens. My implant was beyond science fiction in 1982, but approved by the FDA in 2003.
You young people are going to be amazed at the technology that will be here when you're my age. You will see the impossible happen. You will see stuff that costs millions of dollars today for a couple hundred, and better -- when I was 12 I saw my first computer, a huge building sized thing. Nobody ever imagined that there would be notebook computers far more powerful than anything that existed then in most people's homes and cost a few hundred bucks. Not in a million years did I ever think I'd not only not need glasses, but have better than 20/20 vision.
I'm no biologist though...
Where's Samantha Wright when you need her? You know, the one whose sig reads "I'm a biologist, ask me biology questions in my journal" that she seldom updates? In fact, where are any other biologists in this thread???
Being held for 24 hours is the same as being convicted of something and oredered to serve 24 hours in jail. When you're detained, they don't put you in a comfy chair in a comfortable room, they put you in an orange jumpsuit, barely feed you, give you a thin plastic matress about an inch thick on a concrete slab, locked up, often with violent prisoners who have been convicted of crimes.
Being held for 24 hours IS punishment in and of itself. Punishment without trial, I might add.
You could end up with a diagnosis which is a social stigma, and makes it harder for you to find work or deal with the authorities.
All the more reason to be treated. And someone with severe clinical depression is usually unable to work, period.
You may get a diagnosis or treatment without knowing it, because the doctor either forgets or doesn't think it's important to tell you when he changes either of them.
I don't think that's legal. It's at least malpractice.
Seeking treatment for mental health issues constitutes a risk, both in terms of medical side effects, and in terms of the social stigma
Nobody is going to know you're being treated for mental illness unless you tell them. In the US, a doctor who looses (not: not "loses") a patient's medical information can have his licence yanked and worse. And besides, anyone who stigmatizes someone for a medical condition is themselves either crazy or stupid. Mental illnesses are no different than any other illness; the patient didn't aske for it, and it isn't their fault.
I'm sorry, but your comment shows a complete and utter lack of knowledge about the subject. Do you even know any mental patients? Did you know that mental illness is dangerous both to the patient and to others? Depressed people often kill themselves. Had the guy who shot that congresswoman in Arizona gotten treatment, all those people he killed would still be alive. Had the Batman murderer in Colorado gotten treatment earlier, that massacre probably wouldn't have happened either )of course in that case, the authorities fucked up -- his shrink warned the campus police that he was a danger, but they did nothing. Had they followed through, he wouldn't have been able to legally buy those guns)..
I could have sworn I saw this exact same story at slashdot a year ago... and someone in that thread made the exact same comment. Is this story a dupe, or a rerun?
I know a woman with a similar story (Amy, for those of you who read my JEs). She had a horrible childhood, married a man who beat her so severely he went to prison for it and she had to have reconstructive surgey, then the next guy she hooked up with committed suicide. She self-medicated with alcohol and became a hopeless alcoholic, and was homeless most of the time.
She finally got help. She's on Paxil now, attending AA daily, and is in transitional housing. She's doing well.
Previously when she tried to get help, they were sure the alcohol was causing the depresion, despite the fact that she suffered depression long before she started drinking so would send her to rehab, which of course didn't do anything whatever for the underlying problem. Whenever she got out of rehab, the first place she'd go was a bar. I would guess that a large proportion of drug addicts and alcoholics are self-medicating "mental patients" who can't get help with their disability, because they're simply seen as drunks and druggies.
I've had several since some kind anonymous soul bought a subscription for me. I don't see what the big deal is about FP. Is that for those who have trouble getting a +5?
To stay on topic here, I hope I didn't depress you...
A flying car woudn't be practical for short trips, but I live 100 miles away from my mom, 250 miles from my dad, 300 miles from my youngest daughter. A flying car that would do 150 mph would cut travel time in half, and any small airplane will go that fast. Make it twice that and I could get to St Louis in twenty minutes instead of an hour and a half.
Instead of buying a brand new giant truck, just buy one that's five years old and you can afford a five year old smaller car as well. Since the vehicles together are worth less than the new truck, your insurance costs as well as your gasoline costs will go down as well.
My car would have cost $30,000 new. I paid $10,000 for it, and it looked, smelled, handled, and performed just like a new car... actually better than one or two new cars I'd bought. I gave up buying new cars when my month old Rabbit's alternator died 80 miles from home.
The moon is off course? PANIC!!!!