You are confusing a benign characteristic like race, with behavior characteristics which are very useful in determining future behavior. It should be obviouse that if someone commited an act of violence in the past, that they are more likely to commit an act of violence in the future than someone who did not commit an act of violence in the past. If someone does not have employable skills, it is less likely that a person will be able to find a job, and therefore more likely they may choose criminal behavior vs. someone who has an employable skill and so they can find work very easy. It is also true than males have more testosterone, which tends to produce violent behavior if you have too much.
Wow.. wow.. wow.....
wow.
Dude you're making it too complex, it needs to be simple: bad accent = bad, islam = bad, iraq = bad, minorities = bad, young = bad, man = bad.
See? I mean, we live in a world where people get arrested because of their race and shop keepers use high pitched sounds to "repel" kids from their stores, so where are your sophisticated explanations fitting in?
Hybrid layouts make use of CSS and HTML tables to layout a page, although the table usage is minimized. Zeldman is correct to take this approach, which gives readers practical advice...
I felt a powerful disturbance in the force, as if thousands of CSS-P zealots died reading this.
Click Once is the biggest problem with MS software. Already we have zero click and back door click software installs.
Ok, mister, let me know how many clicks make a trojan installer into a non-trojan.
3, 5, 20? Throw in shell commands? Throw in compilation? Throw in configuration, dependencies? And still nothing stops you from installing a trojan this way.
So what stops you? Trusted sources. And when it's truster, one click is just the right amount of clicks for it to be safe.
Also.NET apps running from the browser are running in a sandbox, they're not more dangerous than Flash is (maybe less).
I'm losing the point of what Microsoft is doing. If they wanna be so friggin closed and proprietary, what's with the public domains and ISO/ECMA standardization of many of their core assets.
24b. Do you know the meaning and origin of "OMG Ponies!~!" ? 24c. Do you like hot grits? 24d. Are you the type of person who would welcome new overlords? 28. Do you live in a basement? 28a. The basement of your parents? 28b. Do you ever see sunlight?
I'd like to inquire about clarification on question 28b: does reflected sunlight count?
You're calling a paper on homicide prediction a "MINORITY REPORT" !?....
a) wow, that's just like this sci-fi movie I watched! I wonder, if Minority Report precog system existed in real world, how long it'll take before they turn it into a top-grossing reality show with cheesy music and annoying host!
b) wow, you're a damn racist, dawg! Now, YOU'RE DEAD!
Hey, that's a psychological classics. If the reply is 'I have no idea, there must be something missing in the story' the person asked have thinking homicidal deviations.
However if the first thing that comes to her/his mind is 'It's clear, she killed her sister in order to be at another funeral so she could meet the guy again' then there is higher possibility that there could be something wrong with the asked person.
Wait, both answers demonstrate "thinking homicidal deviations", so what is the answer that means I'm the greatest person in the world. "F*ck off with your stupid stories!" ?
Could be.
As for the second answer, maybe if you answer that you simply had sense of humor.
This is why I hate popular psychology. It's a one trick pony: make said person say something, or take his reaction out of context and proceed with totally nonsensical conclusions.
I've heard enough of "psychology"-s take on reality to know they have totally lost grip of it.
There was even that guy in yesterday's news explaining that pedophiles actually do what they do since they feel like children and hate the "world of adult people". WTF? Sure they do. Since this is what children do all day: rape their friends.
Or how about "people in poor countries are poor since this is their subliminal desire want to punish themselves, which results in behavioral anomalies". Of course, this explains everything!
It's also funny how the Google haters are also here to throw stones at every little perceived problem with how Google works.
I have to clarify I can't be a "Google hater" since my problem isn't with Google and rather apologist opinions that Google is perfection and they should stay exactly as they are and not move an inch, while the position on Microsoft is totally the opposite.
MS owns the desktop, Google owns the net: and as you know, with power, comes a comic-book quote.
This girl and her sister are attending a funeral of their mother who has died of old age. At the funeral the girl meets this guy she never met before, both hit it off big time. However when she gets home she realises that she got no contact information so is unable to speak to him. A few days later the sister is murdered by the girl. Why?
BTW, if this was The Real World, I wouldn't really suspect she did it to meet the guy at the funeral, but because her mother left everything to her sister, and the guy has nothing to do with it.
After all, there' no relation to this guy visiting the mother funeral and visiting the sister funeral. Plus in a real case we wouldn't have all that info about how they hooked up but she didn't have his contact info and what not.
This girl and her sister are attending a funeral of their mother who has died of old age. At the funeral the girl meets this guy she never met before, both hit it off big time. However when she gets home she realises that she got no contact information so is unable to speak to him. A few days later the sister is murdered by the girl. Why?
I'll tell you if you guess my age which is three times what it was X years ago and 5 times it was Y years ago, and somehow manages to be a prime number, and contain square root of -1, despite all evidence it can't.
has worked with authorities to develop a software tool that predicts who will commit homicide.
Don't forget the best practices for committing a homicide:
1. Commit often and early, to prevent victim escape.
2. Copycat homicide is cheap, so don't be afraid to branch existing homicides, if you feel you need to.
3. While committing a homicide, always write down a full log of what happened, and put it with it with body (or bodies). This won't just help the cops get oriented, but also to yourself when you come back to the crime scene, say, an year later.
You can imagine the indicators that might incline someone toward violence: youth; having committed a serious crime at an early age; being a man rather than a woman, and so on. Each, by itself, probably isn't going to make a person pull the trigger. But put them all together and you've got a perfect storm of forces for violence
Is Berk implying that a checklist of questions can make someone pull the trigger?
Well in this case I suppose we have no choice but TO KILL THOSE PEOPLE IN ADVANCE I think! Oops. Well what do you expect, I have "youth" and I am a "man, rather than a woman".
"Richard Berk, a University of Pennsylvania criminologist, has worked with authorities to develop a software tool that predicts who will commit homicide.
This is utter BS, and a plain simple statistics based profiler. I'm so pissed off after reading about this "supposed", that I wanna kill someone.
And don't forget, all arabs are terrorists! Don't forget to give them obvious, dirty looks full of awareness of their terroristic descent, when you happen to see one.
Like it or not, Google has essentially become a Public Utility.
I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that.
People may be treating Google as a public utility, but Google (a private company) has absolutely no obligations to any website.
It's funny how the Google apologists are always around on Slashdot to defend Google's (a private company) right to screw anyone, never mind their virtual monopoly on the search engine market, but Microsoft (a private company) is supposed to pay millions of dollars to EU and cripple their own products so some other (really shitty) private company, like Real Networks, may benefit from the outcome.
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You are confusing a benign characteristic like race, with behavior characteristics which are very useful in determining future behavior. It should be obviouse that if someone commited an act of violence in the past, that they are more likely to commit an act of violence in the future than someone who did not commit an act of violence in the past. If someone does not have employable skills, it is less likely that a person will be able to find a job, and therefore more likely they may choose criminal behavior vs. someone who has an employable skill and so they can find work very easy. It is also true than males have more testosterone, which tends to produce violent behavior if you have too much.
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Wow.. wow.. wow..
wow.
Dude you're making it too complex, it needs to be simple: bad accent = bad, islam = bad, iraq = bad, minorities = bad, young = bad, man = bad.
See? I mean, we live in a world where people get arrested because of their race and shop keepers use high pitched sounds to "repel" kids from their stores, so where are your sophisticated explanations fitting in?
Hybrid layouts make use of CSS and HTML tables to layout a page, although the table usage is minimized. Zeldman is correct to take this approach, which gives readers practical advice...
I felt a powerful disturbance in the force, as if thousands of CSS-P zealots died reading this.
Steve Ballmer himself has started touting the exact strategy they need -- "Click Once and Run."
That's just about the worst possible news.
Yup, defending Linux as a viable desktop platform becomes harder and harder.
Click Once is the biggest problem with MS software. Already we have zero click and back door click software installs.
.NET apps running from the browser are running in a sandbox, they're not more dangerous than Flash is (maybe less).
Ok, mister, let me know how many clicks make a trojan installer into a non-trojan.
3, 5, 20? Throw in shell commands? Throw in compilation? Throw in configuration, dependencies? And still nothing stops you from installing a trojan this way.
So what stops you? Trusted sources. And when it's truster, one click is just the right amount of clicks for it to be safe.
Also
This article, part one even, outright dismisses Linux.
Maybe since "click-once-and-run Linux apps" is an oxymoron.
Well no, actually in fact I lied. They have their chance.
With Mono.
By Novell (who are in bed with MS).
Irony supreme.
I'm losing the point of what Microsoft is doing. If they wanna be so friggin closed and proprietary, what's with the public domains and ISO/ECMA standardization of many of their core assets.
itsatrap or itsanewmicrosoft?
Look yourself in the mirror. If you look like this, there's a great chance you're bugged.
24b. Do you know the meaning and origin of "OMG Ponies!~!" ?
24c. Do you like hot grits?
24d. Are you the type of person who would welcome new overlords?
28. Do you live in a basement?
28a. The basement of your parents?
28b. Do you ever see sunlight?
I'd like to inquire about clarification on question 28b: does reflected sunlight count?
It's a shame you view Arabs that way. Islam is a global religion and not restricted to Arabs.
You see, I'm not supposed to enlighten people on the Islam religion, as the post was meant to be sarcastic.
No offense intended. I myself am not a citizen of a "modern and big" country and people from my country suffer from poor stereotypes like many other.
But life's like that, so we could either take it lightly, and with irony, or we could get way too worked over it.
Dude, you are completely embarrassing yourself with all of your stupid posts. Just stop. Stop.
:(
I'd like to offer my apologies for posting embarassing posts
I hope this doesn't tarnish the image of suv's in general.
As a spokes person of the Mobsters Who Read Slashdot club, I'd like to offer my gratitude for bring this guide to our attention.
In return I offer 3 cheap bug puns for you to enjoy:
It's a feature, not a bug!
My phone isn't bugged, but I'm bugged by my phone.
If insects fall out of your phone, it's bugged!
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Good night.
Interesting stuff. Here's a link to the full text:
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http://130.58.240.179:8080/~erek/minorityreport.p
Please finish the phrase:
You're calling a paper on homicide prediction a "MINORITY REPORT" !?
a) wow, that's just like this sci-fi movie I watched! I wonder, if Minority Report precog system existed in real world, how long it'll take before they turn it into a top-grossing reality show with cheesy music and annoying host!
b) wow, you're a damn racist, dawg! Now, YOU'RE DEAD!
c)
"Software Used To Predict Who Might Kill"... hmmm
:D
You know, the issue with this definition is technically anyone *MIGHT* kill.
Now, make me a software that predicts who *WILL* kill, whom and when, and we're in business
Hes a killer!
I'm so sorry, but he doesn't meet the minimum system requirements for a killer.
Minimum system requirements:
- 1 civil victim or better
Recommended system requirements:
- 1 police force victim or better
- 10 civil victims or better
Is this the ole' "do you resent the accusation, or assess the evidence against you" trick question?
[Person1:] I.e. Did you kill your cousin?
[Person2:] But he's alive...
[Person1:] Oh.. well then.. Hmmmmm..... Wanna go for a drink in the pub nearby?
[Person2:] Sure.
[Person1:] Did you kill your mom?
[Person2:] Dude, something's definitely wrong with you, I tell ya.
Hey, that's a psychological classics. If the reply is 'I have no idea, there must be something missing in the story' the person asked have thinking homicidal deviations.
However if the first thing that comes to her/his mind is 'It's clear, she killed her sister in order to be at another funeral so she could meet the guy again' then there is higher possibility that there could be something wrong with the asked person.
Wait, both answers demonstrate "thinking homicidal deviations", so what is the answer that means I'm the greatest person in the world. "F*ck off with your stupid stories!" ?
Could be.
As for the second answer, maybe if you answer that you simply had sense of humor.
This is why I hate popular psychology. It's a one trick pony: make said person say something, or take his reaction out of context and proceed with totally nonsensical conclusions.
I've heard enough of "psychology"-s take on reality to know they have totally lost grip of it.
There was even that guy in yesterday's news explaining that pedophiles actually do what they do since they feel like children and hate the "world of adult people". WTF? Sure they do. Since this is what children do all day: rape their friends.
Or how about "people in poor countries are poor since this is their subliminal desire want to punish themselves, which results in behavioral anomalies". Of course, this explains everything!
It's also funny how the Google haters are also here to throw stones at every little perceived problem with how Google works.
I have to clarify I can't be a "Google hater" since my problem isn't with Google and rather apologist opinions that Google is perfection and they should stay exactly as they are and not move an inch, while the position on Microsoft is totally the opposite.
MS owns the desktop, Google owns the net: and as you know, with power, comes a comic-book quote.
Well, maybe because they think google is right? :-)
And I thought law is standing on its own, but I guess it applies selectively depending on whether you're "right".
I also think it's "right" that Windows should ship with a browser and media player, but who cares.
This girl and her sister are attending a funeral of their mother who has died of old age. At the funeral the girl meets this guy she never met before, both hit it off big time. However when she gets home she realises that she got no contact information so is unable to speak to him. A few days later the sister is murdered by the girl. Why?
:P
BTW, if this was The Real World, I wouldn't really suspect she did it to meet the guy at the funeral, but because her mother left everything to her sister, and the guy has nothing to do with it.
After all, there' no relation to this guy visiting the mother funeral and visiting the sister funeral. Plus in a real case we wouldn't have all that info about how they hooked up but she didn't have his contact info and what not.
I'm shit boring, you know..
This girl and her sister are attending a funeral of their mother who has died of old age. At the funeral the girl meets this guy she never met before, both hit it off big time. However when she gets home she realises that she got no contact information so is unable to speak to him. A few days later the sister is murdered by the girl. Why?
I'll tell you if you guess my age which is three times what it was X years ago and 5 times it was Y years ago, and somehow manages to be a prime number, and contain square root of -1, despite all evidence it can't.
has worked with authorities to develop a software tool that predicts who will commit homicide.
Don't forget the best practices for committing a homicide:
1. Commit often and early, to prevent victim escape.
2. Copycat homicide is cheap, so don't be afraid to branch existing homicides, if you feel you need to.
3. While committing a homicide, always write down a full log of what happened, and put it with it with body (or bodies). This won't just help the cops get oriented, but also to yourself when you come back to the crime scene, say, an year later.
You can imagine the indicators that might incline someone toward violence: youth; having committed a serious crime at an early age; being a man rather than a woman, and so on. Each, by itself, probably isn't going to make a person pull the trigger. But put them all together and you've got a perfect storm of forces for violence
Is Berk implying that a checklist of questions can make someone pull the trigger?
Well in this case I suppose we have no choice but TO KILL THOSE PEOPLE IN ADVANCE I think! Oops. Well what do you expect, I have "youth" and I am a "man, rather than a woman".
Excerpt from the test:
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21. Ever killed or tortured small animals?
22. If yes, did you often think they enjoyed it and wanted more?
23. Are you a minority?
24. Do you read Slashdot?
25. Regularly?
26. Would you punch a guy with glasses in the face?
27. Would you punch a clown in the balls?
"Richard Berk, a University of Pennsylvania criminologist, has worked with authorities to develop a software tool that predicts who will commit homicide.
This is utter BS, and a plain simple statistics based profiler.
I'm so pissed off after reading about this "supposed", that I wanna kill someone.
And don't forget, all arabs are terrorists! Don't forget to give them obvious, dirty looks full of awareness of their terroristic descent, when you happen to see one.
It's funny how the Google apologists are always around on Slashdot to defend Google's (a private company) right to screw anyone, never mind their virtual monopoly on the search engine market, but Microsoft (a private company) is supposed to pay millions of dollars to EU and cripple their own products so some other (really shitty) private company, like Real Networks, may benefit from the outcome.