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Comment Re: Woohoo, let's explore (Score 2) 140

Durring the Apollo days, I bought a TI SR11 pocket calculator, it could do arthimatic, squares, square roots, and had a pi key and cost me $104.00! Now your car is probably 1000X electronically more capable than an Apollo capsule, Onstar would make that more like 100K. The Apollo Guidance Computer had a CPU that was made out of 2,800 dual 3-input NOR gates hand wire-wrapped and bedded in epoxy, 2K of 16 bit read-write magnetic core memory and 36 kilowords of read-only core rope memory.

So most of what you are calling a trace, was actually a 40 gage silver plated copper wire.
 

Comment Re:A tech gloss over racial profiling? (Score 1) 218

The sad truth is it's all related to the 80/20 rule or the Pareto principle, 80% of the crimes are committed by 20% of the people; 64% of the crime is commited by 4% (.8^2/.2^2) and 51% is commited by 0.8% (.8^3/.2^3). If you can the correct people off the street, the results are amazing, if you waste your time on the wrong people, the results is futility. With the numbers they're achieving, they are hitting some of the correct people, and race is a red herring.

Comment Re:There are issues to resolve... (Score 1) 262

exonerate, (especially of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case.
  My understanding was the Grand Jury was given broad latitude to consider multiple indictments, to question and cross examine witnesses, to examine physical evidence at length, and they determined that there was not probable cause for any charges. I've seen the autopsy reports myself and they just don't support the notion that Wilson did anything other than perform his duties and defend himself from an attack.

The really sad part is there are enough racist cops using excess force, so they didn't have to fixate on Wilson.

Comment Re:There are issues to resolve... (Score 2) 262

"Server bumping" could be solved by he same mechanism as "camera malfunctions", though implementation would admittedly be a problem: have the police face a presumption of guilt for all accusations that aren't on film.

That's pretty much how it is now, Darren Wilson found himself in such a hostile work enviroment, that he was forced to resign even though he was exonerated, then to add insult to injury, his pregnant wife was asked to resign due to her marital status. Things would have been much easier with dash cameras and body cameras.

Comment Re:News? (Score 3, Insightful) 109

One of the things about Autism is it is subjectively diagnosed based on symptoms, so there is no way to really tell for sure if it one condition or 20. With the difficulty researchers have been having in finding causes and whether the causes are genetic or enviromental, my suspicion leans toward multiple conditions with overlapping symptomologies.

Comment Re:Unix tool philosopy == Good Thing (Score 1) 647

Startup scripts are written in a shell script like BASH because BASH runs in pretty much every run level and is the greatest common denominator; if you don't like BASH feel free to use python, perl, Lisp or even (don't hit me) php. If you don't like interpreted languages, there is always C, C++ or even (don't hit me) Ada.

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 1) 647

I'm glad your having good luck with systemd on your servers, I've been having spurious problems off and on for no discernable reason, ever since systemd was installed on my kubuntu desktop. These problems always clear on reboot, which is something sysadmins hate doing on production servers. init maybe a turd, but it's a very polished, consistant, reliable turd; systemd is an unknown.

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