have the police face a presumption of guilt for all accusations that aren't on film.
"On duty, on video."
"All" that needs to be done is to remove qualified immunity when the camera turns off. Expect thousands of police union lawyers at that hearing - sometimes obvious solutions are impossible if the system isn't optimizing for solutions.
The article does preface the $75 million with "proposed", so like most things the President proposes, perhaps nothing will come of it.
That's OK, really. I've been in a high orbit on the effort to mandate body cams here, and it's been mostly libertarian Republicans who have been pushing for them. Obama being out in front is a gift, and I'll be using it in my testimony in a few months.
This should not be a partisan issue, but any issue without a 50/50 sponsor ratio turns into one in our dysfunctional system.
then open source is no longer the cheapest and best option
If it's not the best, then cheapest is really a false benefit, for any kind of software that is an enabling tool for one's productivity.
Proprietary software costs are almost always set below the value they bring, so if they're really better they're worth paying for.
FWIW, I use open source because it's the best (and contribute code and non-code).
Aside: whenever I've suggested the opportunity to a "starving artist" I've been informed that artists don't work for free but coders can do so "as a hobby". Sometimes you see arguments that just aren't worth having, though I've always thought it must be awful to be an artist as a profession and not enjoy art enough to do it as a hobby too.
Why suddenly the issue with "selfie sticks"?
And Bluetooth too - the 30' menace. When it doesn't make sense on a technology level, look at politics.
Probably super-cheap Bluetooth electronics are becoming popular, and the last thing you want to do is to have people realize that they don't need to be regulated by a government. So, you need to launch a crackdown operation, but you do it to a group that has very little political power, so you don't have to catch hell from your boss when you crack down on some thing that he uses.
In this case, one presumes that the median age of the selfie stick users is well under 30 and for the bureaucrats near 50, so the selfie-stick users are an easy target as an 'out group' for a political action by the 'in group'.
Chimps do the same thing - it's only the details that differ.
It would be fairly straightforward for your IT folks to set up an SSID that doesn't have Internet access and restrict the Glass to that SSID. If they have clinical value.
Where are the properly controlled studies showing that a given level of blood THC is causally related to an increase in driving accidents?
They exist but they don't validate the legislators' pre-conceived science-free notions, so they need to be ignored.
If this breath test can generate revenue and court cases, then the uselessness of a one-time blow for THC isn't relevant. (prediction: somebody will propose compulsory roadside fat-tissue biopsy in the next five years).
And we're not even considering the substitution effect of decreased fatalities with THC vs. ethanol intoxicated drivers, with preferential bias existing for THC. It would be great if nobody got high and drove, but it would be great if people rode around on winged unicorns too, because they don't even need airbags (sparkles work just as well). Dealing with reality can be so darn annoying at times.
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It's the wild inconsistency that was really a drag on the story. It was cool when they lost seven years by wasting a few minutes' time on a rescue attempt by getting a little bit close to a supermassive black hole.
But then later, we have a man in a ship skimming the event horizon and the person up in a much higher orbit is talking to him in realtime by radio.
It's like, why even bother with the pretext of being scientific if the whole damn thing is going to be thrown out when the plot holes demand it? The "sufficiently advanced technology" parts can all be forgiven, but that's not what made the film bad.
Of course,TARS awesomeness makes up for 40% of the bad stuff, but not the soundtrack from hell (I await the torrent with the unauthorized new soundtrack and 40 minutes of relentless editing applied). My eight-year-old said, "it was like they made it loud instead of interesting".
Instead, we need database technology that is new hat. This database technology already exists, and they're called array databases.
Array databases are web scale!.
A Microsoft bug, proof of the incompetence of closed source.
A Linux bug. Either point to some closed source factor, or claim its solving a victory in the flexibility of open source.
So much this. I know every time I report a bug to Microsoft, I have a fix from the lead Windows architect in under three weeks. I don't understand what these linux wankers are on about.
Correctly so because science is based on evidence, not wild speculation or serendipity.
The scientific process involves all three. Scientific results is the subset limited to evidence.
Luke landed and took off in a Tie Fighter on Dagoba. So I don't think it's a stretch.
Are you sure? I think it was Jim Kirk. In a firefly. On Epsilon III.
I'd assumed he was a good guy who'd stolen a stormtrooper uniform to infiltrate and/or escape
Star Wars took a fair beating for being almost all white. Bringing Billy Dee Williams on was at least partially a response to such criticism. We would expect casting from a 2015 Star Wars to be broad and inclusive and not repeat the first film's mistakes.
The funny thing is all this "aren't you a little black for a stormtrooper?" talk is arguing for a "white" stormtrooper when the guy who portrayed Fett is part Maori so it's wrong, if you even care about the premise.
But it's all nonsense anyway - people need to enjoy the film and try to be a little bit more colorblind. None of the characters are humans anyway.
FLAC is for idiots who think they have superhuman hearing.
Archiving in a compressed format is for idiots who don't understand coding quantization noise. Have fun re-ripping again in a few years.
hey, it reduces end-of-life welfare costs by killing off the population more quickly. The "food pyramid" is good policy if you're a sociopathic bankrupt program.
I got a full blood panel before and after doing a ketosis diet for four months. All my numbers were much better, but to be succinct my total relative risk metric for coronary heart disease (1.0 is average) fell from 0.8 to 0.3. I was using a half gallon of heavy cream and several cups of coconut oil every week. Some bacon and steaks too. Plenty of nuts and cheese.
Most people see similar results. None of these blood tests are new science. All of these studies could have been done in 1980. I wonder if they were.
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