Even if they make sites like this one illegal, they will be hosted elsewhere. And here we have the crux of the problem. This type of information is public. You got arrested? Its in the public record. The cop's name had better be on the ticket. He better show up at court. Anyone with internet access can get this information, so what is the fundamental difference between the court records and this site? Feedback from the arrested, True or False, is the only real addition. While there may be a valid argument against putting all of these cops' information in one place, the argument that it increases the danger for the police involved doesn't really hold water. I believe that this additional layer of transparency is helpful. Cops should embrace it, and try to be the best darned cops they can be so they get good ratings on the site. It isn't easy to make an arrest and leave a good impression. But if a cop is a real jerk, there shouldn't be anything preventing someone from posting that on the internet.
"Now I wouldn't go as far to say that we're worried it's going to go run amok and take over the space station or turn evil or anything because we all know how it's operated and it doesn't have a lot of its own intelligence," Reisman told The Associated Press last week. Dextre was quoted as saying "It must have been human error. None of the 9000's have ever made a mistake."
But really people, why do we need Star Wars to make this sound cool? This is an amazing universe of ours. It doesn't need George Lucas to make Light and Magic. No, but to get it posted on/. you do. Sorry, friday man. Thats it I'm going home!
Excellent points. I hadn't thought about more than just buttons to bring up specific programs and to type. Come to think of it, theres those universal remotes which aren't nearly as customizable, which basically serve the same purpose. The idea of using it for context specific tasks (universal remote for a media center and such) hadn't occurred to me.
But seriously, I don't look at my keyboard. When I was but a wee tyke I took typing class and haven't looked down since. While I can appreciate the novelty of having it, how often does anyone look at their keyboard long enough to appreciate this while actually doing work? Is there something I'm just not getting here?
Holy Pinto Batman!
carbon-fiber tanks with 340 liters of air at 4350 psi. Still, its full of air, so while it would be bad if the tank ruptured, it would still be less dangerous than a bunch of gasoline all over the place. Its not like the air is going to catch fire.
Useful tools may be useful. In fact you may find the need to incorporate them into your daily life. Electronic communication tools such as "e-mail" and 'the internets' (A.K.A. the tubes) may also be found to significantly improve productivity. Use with extreme caution.
Bender: Don't worry I don't have an addictive personality - chugs beer, puffs cigar, jacks on
Nevermind.....
I marveled at our elevation of the death of Anna Nicole Smith to near-mythic status and our willingness to let the airwaves be taken hostage by every permutation of opportunistic degenerate from a crying judge to a Hollywood hanger-on with an emo haircut. Well at least the poor dude doesn't have to work for them anymore.
Dude, nail on the head. I don't believe that the news media is "dumbing down" their language to make it more accessible to viewers, I've always just assumed they don't have a sufficient understanding of basic science to pose good questions. I think back to college, and frankly the journalism students didn't seem to be taking many elective science courses. The journalism community as a whole doesn't seem to have a very good understanding of the scientific method. On the other hand, there are a good number of excellent science journalists (SciAm seems to me to be written for a wide audience, yet succeeds in presenting accurate and generally interesting science news). Then again, it could be that the public is just as ill-informed about science as the journalistic community. What a sorry state of affairs indeed.
The obvious use is of course to license the technology to Major League Baseball to tell everyone to buy more MLB merchandise (and of course for marketing research). You didn't think those congresional hearings were really about sterioids did you?
I do think that the gov't should encourage breeding amongst people who are productive as they tend to produce more productive people Dude, did you just propose a Federal Sex Bureau?
Otherwise, they don't drill Really? You genuinely believe that without tax breaks oil companies will stop drilling with Sweet Light at 100$ a barrel? I just don't see oil companies in such a desperate position. They can still deliver shareholder value, and invest in new capital without the US Government's help or hindrance.
Many optical fibers such as the one they are using have nonlinearities. Light of one frequency does not travel at the same speed as light of another frequency. They are exploiting this nonlinearity.
Because there are a bunch of people who complain to the FCC at the drop of a hat when there is the slightest bit of something interesting on TV. Remember that NYPD Blue episode? Children are aware that human beings have asses. But to put it on TV?! The outrage! And NYPD Blue?! Thats just the type of show which children love!!! Wont somebody, anybody, please, pretty pretty please with cherries and whipped topping think of the children?
probably had a confidentiality notice One would hope a lawyer working at a major law firm on a sensitive case would be required to have a confidentiality notice. I guess the question is, how do you know if you aren't the intended recipient? The guy must be in his address book? How does he know he's not just getting a hot tip from a disgruntled lawyer / whistleblower? Even if you are fairly certain you aren't the intended recipient, do those canned confidentiality sigs mean anything anyway? IANAL, anyone who knows a little better care to inform?
From what I gathered in the article, thats just what they did. Namely change the architecture of the memory cells so they could lower the voltage without loosing volatile memory to noise. I think it said they moved from 6 transistors per cell to 8 though I'm not clear on how the arrangement changed. Simple J/K latch or S/R latch changed how exactly? I guess it has been too long since digital logic.
You might want to get a DAVE. 60GiB and you can stream video/music to your iPod Touch or iPhone (or a litany of other bluetooth/wifi enabled devices). Should be out sometime this year i think (the press release isn't entirely clear).
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the toughbook yet. I had one for a summer job camping and monitoring wells. That thing got straight brutalized - dropped constantly (while on and the HDD never seemed to mind) - copious amounts of water poured on it basically everyday - chucked into the back of a truck consistently. We treated it like we were supposed to get it to break (mostly in the hopes that it would break, and we could have the company get us a new one) but it never did.
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I believe that this additional layer of transparency is helpful. Cops should embrace it, and try to be the best darned cops they can be so they get good ratings on the site. It isn't easy to make an arrest and leave a good impression. But if a cop is a real jerk, there shouldn't be anything preventing someone from posting that on the internet.
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Why that would be the Flying Spaghetti Monster of course! Consider yourself touched by his Noodley Appendage!
Hope this series focus' on Cleveland's previous occupation as an accomplished auctioneer. Going Once... Going Twice... Its friday and i'm going home!
Excellent points. I hadn't thought about more than just buttons to bring up specific programs and to type. Come to think of it, theres those universal remotes which aren't nearly as customizable, which basically serve the same purpose. The idea of using it for context specific tasks (universal remote for a media center and such) hadn't occurred to me.
But seriously, I don't look at my keyboard. When I was but a wee tyke I took typing class and haven't looked down since. While I can appreciate the novelty of having it, how often does anyone look at their keyboard long enough to appreciate this while actually doing work? Is there something I'm just not getting here?
Still, its full of air, so while it would be bad if the tank ruptured, it would still be less dangerous than a bunch of gasoline all over the place. Its not like the air is going to catch fire.
SNAP! I think you just wrote a bad ass marketing campaign.
Useful tools may be useful. In fact you may find the need to incorporate them into your daily life. Electronic communication tools such as "e-mail" and 'the internets' (A.K.A. the tubes) may also be found to significantly improve productivity. Use with extreme caution.
Bender: Don't worry I don't have an addictive personality - chugs beer, puffs cigar, jacks on
How do we know this isn't the guy who's been making CNN cover britney instead of actual news huh? Cause I'm all for firing whoever that dude is.
Dude, nail on the head. I don't believe that the news media is "dumbing down" their language to make it more accessible to viewers, I've always just assumed they don't have a sufficient understanding of basic science to pose good questions.
I think back to college, and frankly the journalism students didn't seem to be taking many elective science courses. The journalism community as a whole doesn't seem to have a very good understanding of the scientific method.
On the other hand, there are a good number of excellent science journalists (SciAm seems to me to be written for a wide audience, yet succeeds in presenting accurate and generally interesting science news).
Then again, it could be that the public is just as ill-informed about science as the journalistic community. What a sorry state of affairs indeed.
The obvious use is of course to license the technology to Major League Baseball to tell everyone to buy more MLB merchandise (and of course for marketing research). You didn't think those congresional hearings were really about sterioids did you?
Dude, did you just propose a Federal Sex Bureau?
Otherwise, they don't drill Really? You genuinely believe that without tax breaks oil companies will stop drilling with Sweet Light at 100$ a barrel?
I just don't see oil companies in such a desperate position. They can still deliver shareholder value, and invest in new capital without the US Government's help or hindrance.
Many optical fibers such as the one they are using have nonlinearities. Light of one frequency does not travel at the same speed as light of another frequency. They are exploiting this nonlinearity.
Because there are a bunch of people who complain to the FCC at the drop of a hat when there is the slightest bit of something interesting on TV. Remember that NYPD Blue episode? Children are aware that human beings have asses. But to put it on TV?! The outrage! And NYPD Blue?! Thats just the type of show which children love!!! Wont somebody, anybody, please, pretty pretty please with cherries and whipped topping think of the children?
From what I gathered in the article, thats just what they did. Namely change the architecture of the memory cells so they could lower the voltage without loosing volatile memory to noise. I think it said they moved from 6 transistors per cell to 8 though I'm not clear on how the arrangement changed. Simple J/K latch or S/R latch changed how exactly? I guess it has been too long since digital logic.
With apologies to Peter Griffin.
You might want to get a DAVE. 60GiB and you can stream video/music to your iPod Touch or iPhone (or a litany of other bluetooth/wifi enabled devices). Should be out sometime this year i think (the press release isn't entirely clear).
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the toughbook yet. I had one for a summer job camping and monitoring wells. That thing got straight brutalized - dropped constantly (while on and the HDD never seemed to mind) - copious amounts of water poured on it basically everyday - chucked into the back of a truck consistently. We treated it like we were supposed to get it to break (mostly in the hopes that it would break, and we could have the company get us a new one) but it never did.
After further research it was discovered that life as a software engineer is much like regular life, but with more compiler errors.
- a bunch of novelty cases
- overpriced power supplies
- and 6 new DDR3 modules at varying frequencies