The key to passing a lie detector test is to bring yourself to believe the lies you are telling. If you could train yourself through meditation to believe anything, then how close are we to the situation in Minority Report where the third psychic's testimony is the only thing that sees through the re-enactment of a crime so that the second act looks just like the first one and thus makes the whole thing seem innocuous?
Psychics are fake, but brainwaves are real. If we can lend credence to psychics in the movies, then what is the reason we can't lend brainwave scans credence in the real world? This is a scary technology, not only for the clear violation of one's own mental state, but also for the ability of those who would to game the system and perpetrate all sorts of crime until Tom Cruise showed up with his Mila Jovovich-looking psychic.
Does a company have a right to revenue? If they base their business model on the rules of another company, do they really have recourse when the rules are changed to damage that revenue stream?
And can anyone point me to a bit torrent of an actual Miley Cyrus CD instead of garbage binaries?
Do you trust the people you work with? Any individual in any business can access all sorts of material information.
Maybe it will be leaked to someone outside. Maybe it will be inadvertently passed in an email reply. Maybe someone will break in and steal an unguarded laptop.
There is no way to protect any data. The medical records everyone cries over is already shared with your doctors. Do you trust their secretaries? Do you trust the software makers and the maintenance/service engineers who come to diagnose software problems?
There is no privacy, and there is no secret information. There is only information which has not yet been leaked. And your only hope is that any information that is leaked is already moot by the time it becomes public.
If not, then your family exists to provide support for you so that you can in turn work and provide financial support for them. Are your roots in that town so deep that you will spend 4-6 gallons of gas every work day just to prevent "chaos"? Are your kids going to be unable to make new friends or to keep in touch with old ones?
I don't ask this lightly. Why do you think your family wouldn't support you if you needed to move to a place closer to your workplace? Is your skillset so specific or so limited that you couldn't successfully move to a completely different part of the country?
I have trouble believing that anyone posting here on/. is unskilled. Every poster on this site has something interesting to say, and more than once I've been made a little more knowledgeable by another poster here. So I don't have any doubt that you could move somewhere else and make it work. But I don't understand why you wouldn't.
The problem with buses is not that they can't stop within a centimeter of a specific target. It's simply that they are unreliable and prone to delay due to traffic.
They are large, smoke-belching monstrosities that should be kept off the road. (Buses, not Americans in general)
If more people would simply live closer to their workplaces (or telecommute) and ride bikes to work, we wouldn't have to worry about these hulking masses lumbering down the road.
The Constitution guarantees the right to peaceably assemble. It doesn't give free license to actively disrupt. If they were planning to do something illegal in this case, it's conspiracy.
Push them out of MN. Pop some of them in the face. And move them into a nice safe cell for the time being.
Bradbury's Farenheit 451 is really not that good. The writing is pretty poor, and the storytelling is uneven. Bradbury uses silliloquies to express his points. So what you end up with is a series of monotonous essays rather than an actual story.
Isn't it kind of pointless (heh) to use a laser to point out stars. It isn't 1250AD where we had a canopy upon which to shine the laser. Space doesn't provide a surface to reflect back the pointer beam.
It is pretty clear that the Tibet issue and the Free Tibet movement is much bigger and well-known than this guy's activism. Yes, a drop of water in the ocean adds to the total amount, but on the whole not so much.
I like to think that banning DDT and ending up dooming millions of Africans to death by malaria is a bit worse than having to wash a few apples before eating. Unintended consequences are typically worse than anyone usually expects.
Certainly you can't say there is a net positive outcome from this protest.
How do you know? Isn't it a tad hasty to be making assumptions? And hasn't he actually achieved at least something?
Is this like how the movement of butterfly wings can be responsible for a hurricane? Because if that's what you mean, then we can't ever discount anything as a cause for anything. And that's just stupid.
Powderly is not Tibetan, not a resident of China, a foreigner who traveled to China for the express purpose of making this protest, and achieved nothing in this protest. Powderly and his protest is nothing like Park's protest.
The issue of Tibet and Chinese imperialism is well-known and is never out of the public eye.
However, making a spectacle of yourself in a venue designed to showcase the absolute best of the best athletes in the world, when your total contribution to their preparation is all but zero, seems to be an act of hubris and self-absorption. Even if what you are doing is ostensibly for the benefit of someone else.
The Olympics aren't about you, and they aren't about your pet issue. There are plenty of other venues to air these protests. Disrespecting the athletes by marring the games with these protests is no better than what happened in Munich in 1972.
In Vancouver, BC, drug use and prostitution are (if not outright legal) decriminalized. This means that the government is able to help those with a problem instead of being forced to put them away in prison.
The public toilets getting abused is a sign of a much deeper problem. It's the puritanical mindset of Americans that pushes these normal behaviors into the shadows and away from the help that the victims so desperately need.
It's a total waste of time to sell these things. It just means fewer public bathrooms downtown, and if you've ever been to a city with no public bathrooms (Philadelphia), you know that the terrible smell is the result.
I understand that people want to avoid long lines at the grocery store. They all pile into the self-serve line because they can of course check out their own groceries faster than some retarded minimum-wage monkey girl and her patchouli-scented pet bagboy can.
It's a little like wanting to drive your own car instead of taking the bus or train. The feeling that you are in control makes you feel like you can move faster, but the fact of the matter is that you're simply clogging up the road with your lousy driving skills and 4 ton 2mpg piece of American shit SUV. You make yourself and everyone else slower just by being on the road.
I haven't been to Germany, but I've been to Austria and found that, aside from grocery stores closing at 3:30 in the afternoon, that you had to weigh and tag your own fruits. The retarded minimum-wage monkey girl just stared at me like I was from Mars when I passed her a bunch of bananas with no price sticker on it. Then she ate the fucking things.
So anyway, the experience of doing it yourself is highly overrated. I think Arsenio Hall said it best, "Oh give me the dick, Eddie!" But he also said something like the "wiping your own butt is overrated" or something in that movie about African dudes who came to Manhattan to work at McDonalds.
No, it's more like someone running around naked outside holding a frosted pane of glass in front of them wondering if maybe they should also build a tool to hold a second pane of frosted glass behind them.
This guy was always complaining about headaches. He would constantly be pounding his head into his fist and whimper to me that he felt like his head would split open. He took pain killers all the time, and for a long duration was addicted to a certain prescription pain medication. But none of that helped because as soon as the medication started to wear off, the pain would come right back again.
Finally, I had had enough of his complaining. I told him to stop pounding his head with his fist. Whaddayano! His headaches went away in a day.
Moral of the story: Don't try to find workarounds for your problem. Fix the problem.
You can have the best, goddamned shit in the world and give it away for nothing, but if you don't got people out there beating on motherfucking doors you won't even be able to give your shit away.
Open standards don't mean "Open" standards. The open standards that people will use are the ones that are sold to them. If you think that shaking your dick in the wind is going to attract customers, you are in for a big disappointment. Sell that shit, man!
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You want to find out more about this kind of "thin slicing" of reality?
Check out Blink by Malcom Gladwell.
Never has so little been said so well for over 200 pages. Gladwell is the Barack Obama of the writing world.
The key to passing a lie detector test is to bring yourself to believe the lies you are telling. If you could train yourself through meditation to believe anything, then how close are we to the situation in Minority Report where the third psychic's testimony is the only thing that sees through the re-enactment of a crime so that the second act looks just like the first one and thus makes the whole thing seem innocuous?
Psychics are fake, but brainwaves are real. If we can lend credence to psychics in the movies, then what is the reason we can't lend brainwave scans credence in the real world? This is a scary technology, not only for the clear violation of one's own mental state, but also for the ability of those who would to game the system and perpetrate all sorts of crime until Tom Cruise showed up with his Mila Jovovich-looking psychic.
Does a company have a right to revenue? If they base their business model on the rules of another company, do they really have recourse when the rules are changed to damage that revenue stream?
And can anyone point me to a bit torrent of an actual Miley Cyrus CD instead of garbage binaries?
Do you trust the people you work with? Any individual in any business can access all sorts of material information.
Maybe it will be leaked to someone outside. Maybe it will be inadvertently passed in an email reply. Maybe someone will break in and steal an unguarded laptop.
There is no way to protect any data. The medical records everyone cries over is already shared with your doctors. Do you trust their secretaries? Do you trust the software makers and the maintenance/service engineers who come to diagnose software problems?
There is no privacy, and there is no secret information. There is only information which has not yet been leaked. And your only hope is that any information that is leaked is already moot by the time it becomes public.
Does your wife work?
If not, then your family exists to provide support for you so that you can in turn work and provide financial support for them. Are your roots in that town so deep that you will spend 4-6 gallons of gas every work day just to prevent "chaos"? Are your kids going to be unable to make new friends or to keep in touch with old ones?
I don't ask this lightly. Why do you think your family wouldn't support you if you needed to move to a place closer to your workplace? Is your skillset so specific or so limited that you couldn't successfully move to a completely different part of the country?
I have trouble believing that anyone posting here on /. is unskilled. Every poster on this site has something interesting to say, and more than once I've been made a little more knowledgeable by another poster here. So I don't have any doubt that you could move somewhere else and make it work. But I don't understand why you wouldn't.
The problem with buses is not that they can't stop within a centimeter of a specific target. It's simply that they are unreliable and prone to delay due to traffic.
They are large, smoke-belching monstrosities that should be kept off the road. (Buses, not Americans in general)
If more people would simply live closer to their workplaces (or telecommute) and ride bikes to work, we wouldn't have to worry about these hulking masses lumbering down the road.
The officers refused to state why they were there and, until the very end, refused to show whether they had a search warrant.
Now, I have only the same information you do, probably less. But the quote above seems to indicate that they actually did have a search warrant.
Why do you doubt it? Because the one-sided article doesn't give enough details about the protestors' activities?
Since the police had a warrant, some judge thought they had enough reasonable suspicion to go in and make these raids.
The Constitution guarantees the right to peaceably assemble. It doesn't give free license to actively disrupt. If they were planning to do something illegal in this case, it's conspiracy.
Push them out of MN. Pop some of them in the face. And move them into a nice safe cell for the time being.
Bradbury's Farenheit 451 is really not that good. The writing is pretty poor, and the storytelling is uneven. Bradbury uses silliloquies to express his points. So what you end up with is a series of monotonous essays rather than an actual story.
Given enough time and energy, even Linux servers can be hacked.
With the growing interest in Linux, I wonder if we'll see more parity of viruses between Windows and Linux.
Seriously, my girlfriend is not from India.
Made in Taiwan?
Isn't it kind of pointless (heh) to use a laser to point out stars. It isn't 1250AD where we had a canopy upon which to shine the laser. Space doesn't provide a surface to reflect back the pointer beam.
You could argue he achieved less than he might have, but to say he achieved nothing is idiotic.
Let's compare
It is pretty clear that the Tibet issue and the Free Tibet movement is much bigger and well-known than this guy's activism. Yes, a drop of water in the ocean adds to the total amount, but on the whole not so much.
I like to think that banning DDT and ending up dooming millions of Africans to death by malaria is a bit worse than having to wash a few apples before eating. Unintended consequences are typically worse than anyone usually expects.
Certainly you can't say there is a net positive outcome from this protest.
How do you know? Isn't it a tad hasty to be making assumptions? And hasn't he actually achieved at least something?
Is this like how the movement of butterfly wings can be responsible for a hurricane? Because if that's what you mean, then we can't ever discount anything as a cause for anything. And that's just stupid.
Powderly is not Tibetan, not a resident of China, a foreigner who traveled to China for the express purpose of making this protest, and achieved nothing in this protest. Powderly and his protest is nothing like Park's protest.
And I'M BadAnalogyGuy?!
The issue of Tibet and Chinese imperialism is well-known and is never out of the public eye.
However, making a spectacle of yourself in a venue designed to showcase the absolute best of the best athletes in the world, when your total contribution to their preparation is all but zero, seems to be an act of hubris and self-absorption. Even if what you are doing is ostensibly for the benefit of someone else.
The Olympics aren't about you, and they aren't about your pet issue. There are plenty of other venues to air these protests. Disrespecting the athletes by marring the games with these protests is no better than what happened in Munich in 1972.
In Vancouver, BC, drug use and prostitution are (if not outright legal) decriminalized. This means that the government is able to help those with a problem instead of being forced to put them away in prison.
The public toilets getting abused is a sign of a much deeper problem. It's the puritanical mindset of Americans that pushes these normal behaviors into the shadows and away from the help that the victims so desperately need.
It's a total waste of time to sell these things. It just means fewer public bathrooms downtown, and if you've ever been to a city with no public bathrooms (Philadelphia), you know that the terrible smell is the result.
I understand that people want to avoid long lines at the grocery store. They all pile into the self-serve line because they can of course check out their own groceries faster than some retarded minimum-wage monkey girl and her patchouli-scented pet bagboy can.
It's a little like wanting to drive your own car instead of taking the bus or train. The feeling that you are in control makes you feel like you can move faster, but the fact of the matter is that you're simply clogging up the road with your lousy driving skills and 4 ton 2mpg piece of American shit SUV. You make yourself and everyone else slower just by being on the road.
I haven't been to Germany, but I've been to Austria and found that, aside from grocery stores closing at 3:30 in the afternoon, that you had to weigh and tag your own fruits. The retarded minimum-wage monkey girl just stared at me like I was from Mars when I passed her a bunch of bananas with no price sticker on it. Then she ate the fucking things.
So anyway, the experience of doing it yourself is highly overrated. I think Arsenio Hall said it best, "Oh give me the dick, Eddie!" But he also said something like the "wiping your own butt is overrated" or something in that movie about African dudes who came to Manhattan to work at McDonalds.
No, it's more like someone running around naked outside holding a frosted pane of glass in front of them wondering if maybe they should also build a tool to hold a second pane of frosted glass behind them.
This guy was always complaining about headaches. He would constantly be pounding his head into his fist and whimper to me that he felt like his head would split open. He took pain killers all the time, and for a long duration was addicted to a certain prescription pain medication. But none of that helped because as soon as the medication started to wear off, the pain would come right back again.
Finally, I had had enough of his complaining. I told him to stop pounding his head with his fist. Whaddayano! His headaches went away in a day.
Moral of the story: Don't try to find workarounds for your problem. Fix the problem.
You can have the best, goddamned shit in the world and give it away for nothing, but if you don't got people out there beating on motherfucking doors you won't even be able to give your shit away.
Open standards don't mean "Open" standards. The open standards that people will use are the ones that are sold to them. If you think that shaking your dick in the wind is going to attract customers, you are in for a big disappointment. Sell that shit, man!
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