You are creating a straw man. Who says, regulations should exist "just because that's the way we've always done it"? I don't say that. Nobody here said that. I don't know of anybody who said that. I challenge you to find someone who did. Atlas Shrugged doesn't count.

The parent gave you the regulations that Uber should follow: "displaying a hack lic, certification of insurance or bonding, and penalties for systematic race discrimination."

The reason we require insurance coverage for cabs is that we had many accidents in which people were severely injured, including pedestrians who never contracted with the cab driver, and it turned out that the cab driver didn't have enough insurance to cover them. If a pedestrian loses a leg, $100,000 insurance won't even cover the medical and rehabilitation costs. So the regulations required them to have a larger amount of insurance. There were stories about that in the New York Times in the last few years. An underinsured Uber driver had a major accident already.

The reason we require a hack license is that, among other things, we want cab drivers to go through a police check to make sure they haven't committed crimes in the past. Customers don't want to be alone in a cab and dependent on drivers who have been convicted of violent crimes. Many women want to take a cab home from a bar after they've had too much to drink. They don't want to be raped by the driver. Maybe you think they're wrong, but that's the decision they make in the free market and through the democratic process. Uber claims they screen their drivers but it's up to them to convince us that they screen them as well as the hack bureau does.

That's what the regulations are supposed to accomplish.

Bechdel is a dyke, it's no surprise that she only wants to see women who have nothing to do with men. Strange how a society that is allegedly inherently bigoted constantly caters to deviants; the truth is society tends to be more tolerant and inclusive than it rightfully should be.

Technically, this is quite do-able. Then again, consider what a dud 3D TV was.

Headgear for a game, like an FPS shooter, should be fun. But for passive watching, it's too much work.

Or alcohol.

Thank you, NRA and Congress, for giving our brave service men and women the freedom and personal responsibility to kill themselves when things get too tough.

http://touch.latimes.com/#sect...
Programs to prevent psychological problems in troops questioned
By Alan Zarembo
February 20, 2014, 7:34 p.m.

Many federal programs aimed at preventing psychological problems in military service members and their families have not been evaluated correctly to determine whether they are working and are not supported by science, says a new report commissioned by the Defense Department.

"A lot of their programs don’t have any good data behind them," said Kenneth Warner, a professor of public health at the University of Michigan who led the Institute of Medicine committee that produced the report. "We remain uncertain about which approaches work and which ones are ineffective."

At the same time, some proven interventions are not being used, the committee found. Researchers said there was ample evidence to suggest that limiting access to personal firearms on military bases would reduce suicides. About 60% of service members who take their own lives do it with guns — usually their own.

"Means restriction has been demonstrated to work," said David Rudd, a psychologist and suicide expert at the University of Memphis who served on the committee.

But in 2011, Congress prohibited the Defense Department from regulating legally owned personal firearms and ammunition on military bases.

http://iom.edu/Reports/2014/Pr...
Preventing Psychological Disorders in Service Members and Their Families: An Assessment of Programs
February 20, 2014

Among the small number of DOD-sponsored reintegration programs that exist, none appears to be based on scientific evidence. The committee was unable to identify any DOD evidence-based programs addressing the prevention of domestic abuse. More recently, the services have implemented a number of prevention interventions to address military sexual assault, yet a DOD review found that critical evaluation components needed to measure their effectiveness are missing.

The committee also found that environmental strategies with strong evidence of effectiveness are underutilized, such as restricting access to lethal means such as personal firearms to prevent suicide or homicide in domestic violence cases or placing restrictions on the sale of alcohol to reduce substance misuse.

In place of these proven approaches, the committee typically found interventions such as campaigns, Internet tools, or in-person events with no evidence for their effectiveness at preventing the targeted problem.

No, it's the new part of the system that's broken. The big hole on caller ID is where VoIP enters the switched telephone network without cryptographic source identification.

When caller ID was generated by physical wires strung through the holes of a Dimond ring translator (this was ROM, 1950s style), there was no way to spoof it from outside the central office.

Complete bullshit, multiple levels of ignorance.

First level: It was not too expensive to build out the infrastructure without guaranteed profits because there are plenty of fucking places that didnt grant guaranteed profits but still got cable companies that wanted in You are basically lying right now. You are saying something thats not true in order to justify an argument that doesnt have true justifications that you can easily sell to us.

Second level: Businesses that have guaranteed profits are not part of the free market. They are part of the very thing you appear to be arguing against, but somehow amazingly you dont see the problem with actually using the thing you should despise as a justification for your argument. You are basically saying that businesses should have guaranteed profits, and that we better get the god damed federal government involved to make their monopoly a federal level institution rather than just a local one, and make sure that it guarantees them profits for ever.

What the fuck is wrong with you people. The problem is the monopoly. The monopoly is created in your local government. They gave it to these companies. The federal government isnt the solution. The solution is that instead of complaining on slashdot about how apathetic you are about local politics, you stop being so fucking apathetic about local politics.

Going to be rude here because you deserve it. You are the fucking locals.

What you are saying is that you wont fucking handle it, so someone else better handle it for you, and you dont care one bit who gets hurt in the process of you not handling your own shit.

You mean the solution isnt to ask the federal government to solve our specifically local problems that were created by local politicians that were enabled by the fact that we don't get involved in our own local politics?

sigh...

AT&T did not buy everything back up. In fact, AT&T lost it all. AT&T is gone.

It was the baby bells that merged, most aggressive was Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC) which picked up the completely failing AT&T in 2005 and took over its name.

AT&T is dead. Long live AT&T.

You are exactly right. I just read that indictment. I can't understand how Williams would take a chance like that.

He's been taunting the feds. They do a lot of stings like that, and it's prudent to be prepared for one. Even if the undercover agent's story had been true, the agent might have been prosecuted and might as well inform on Williams in hope of a better deal.

He said

Williams knew what was happening. How could he make a stupid mistake like that? Is it the decline of age?

His line was, "The lie detector is bullshit, they can't catch criminals and then can accuse innocent people, I'm going to teach you how to pass the test. I don't want to hear about crimes. I'm not a lawyer and I can't give you lawyer-client privilege. If you want to talk about crimes, get a lawyer."

If he had stuck to that, he would have been OK.

I'm not sure you even have to give them your name and address, if they haven't seen you committing a violation. That may vary from state to state.

A lawyer from the National Lawyer's Guild once told me to say, "Officer, am I free to go?"

In my understanding, the cops can't detain you unless they have reasonable grounds to believe you committed a crime.

That's also a good line to use when they try to intimidate you into giving them permission to search your car.

Pig: Can I search your car?

Driver: I won't resist, but I'm not giving you permission.

Pig: If you don't give me permission to search your car, we'll get the drug-sniffing dog and tear up your car.

Driver: Officer, am I free to go?

(The legal answer is yes. If he doesn't have enough reasonable suspicion to search your car, he doesn't have enough reasonable suspicion to detain you.)

So I guess we are punishing the Russian people only for the military shooting down a civilian plane?

c'mon, it's about oil and gas revenues and strategic positioning in the market - you know this game by now.

These sanctions are pre-arranged and [insert crisis here] is penciled in for the right moment, fortuitous or constructed.

Oh, good, the other videos are up now. So that's how the machine is used for analysis.

This is very similar to the Great Brass Brain, a tide prediction engine.

There's some merit to that. Doctors without Borders is an unusual organization in that they often operate in areas of danger. They turn down volunteers who don't already have experience in their kind of work.

Unexperienced doctors and others often go into disaster areas without being prepared, get into trouble and have to be evacuated.

Doctors without Borders also maintains a policy of strict political neutrality in the regions where they work. They often have relationships lasting 30 years with the local medical community, and they know exactly what the locals want, without imposing their own ideas on them.

Other organizations are not so neutral. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... If you're politically naive, you may not realize the risks you're taking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

We know. It was on Hacker News days ago.

When the guy publishes the videos of how to use it for Fourier analysis, that will be interesting. It's obvious how synthesis works, but not how the reverse operation works.