Comment Re:Why not both? (Score 1) 354
But that only works if you hold your phone in your left hand...
Makes sense...right handed folks with iPhones trying to call for help => 'death grip'
But that only works if you hold your phone in your left hand...
Makes sense...right handed folks with iPhones trying to call for help => 'death grip'
Simple answer: No one (probably not even you) expects them to be 100% correct*. If I am forcibly isolated and "helped" because their classifier uses 16 bit inputs from the temperature sensor and not 32, I wouldn't accept the shitty quality of life that I expect to have because my gait makes me fall more than 3 std. deviations outside the defined "average human being".
Paranoid corollary: By defining what is "not criminally psychotic", we are fundamentally influencing opportunities for reproduction. Thereby, the fitness function involved in natural evolution has an additional term introduced by those who decide what constitutes "normal". This leads to a severe risk of targeting a minority population with certain quirks as "criminally psychotic" and therefore 'cleansing' the population of this minority.
Due to the above arguments, I would say that even if you gave the "chosen ones" the best possible quality of life, this would have unforeseen effects of human evolution and I do not want to risk that. I agree that life is unfair, but being born with a propensity for crime is like having a handicap. I know this is insensitive, but having to give people in wheelchairs the same opportunities for employment possibly lowers overall productivity, but that is what I treasure in society - knowing that losing my legs tomorrow does not immediately turn my life into a total bag of shit - these rules would make my life suck a little bit lesser than it otherwise would.
* The criteria for "criminally psychotic" would be generated by psychologists (or other humans) or statistically which have the weaknesses of subjectivity and uncertainty respectively. Neither can be 100% sure of anything. Throw in the fact that we have no fucking idea whatsoever how many people with "criminal psychosis" actually commit crimes and I am really unnerved by Pre-crime detection.
Arguments based on culpability for your thoughts and human profiling are wonderfully described in almost every dystopian novel - I believe the required reading for your geek card (at least 1984 and Brave New World) ought to cover these arguments.
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I would really hate to see Wikipedia founder for lack of a pragmatic means of maintaining its existence
Why would you see Jimmy about that? I recommend you see Similing Bob or JG Wentworth about your problems.
*rimshot*
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If your going too be pedantic, better you are in right!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/couple
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/couple
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If the same kind of people went to both, the former might be better for some jobs. On the other hand, smart and capable students typically tend to favour 4yr programs which means you are more likely to find better talent coming out of a 4yr program.
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Looks like he was paying for a service. I don't see how this is any different from Homeopathy or Scientology...
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Most computer science students don't know how to write code. So it doesn't matter at all.
I feel like your spelling of experiance is some level of brilliant meta-commentary that I'm not qualified to understand.
I agree, unequifaxally, that it is genius
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As it is I put metal foil tape over them now
So no one finds out about your Tihande-1A which is capable of 2.5 petafaps?
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Not spying on your employees is a good practice. Should good management practices be mandated?
My take on it is that the law (common or otherwise) should grant employees an expectation of privacy even when they are at work. Companies that do want to monitor what is being done on their equipment during hours they are paying the employee should be allowed to do so. As long as they make sure they dispel this expectation.
Looks like we all know that there's no such thing as a whitelist either...
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