This is Slashdot, so new we are rewarded with a litany of "look how stupid congress is" stories.

The fact is, the conversation is clearly brainstorming, more of a signal that lateral thinking was welcome, as the secret service clearly hasn't thought if anything effective.

If you want to be a filthy marxist about it, geeks are nearly perfect petite bourgeoisie.

So your logic is that if we can't stop all murders, why bother to try to stop some of them? If you cannot prevent poverty everywhere, there's no point in helping some people out of poverty, even if that subset is arbitrary?

I understand that such a point is usually made from political tendentiousness, but I've never really understood the position logically. Need is infinite, resources aren't; even the most altruistic person in the world prioritizes their targets.

The problem is NOT funding, The problem is that we have people in charge of the schools that are complete MORONS in regard to technology.

Want to really do some good? design a plan. for the technology backbone in every school and force the schools to adhere to it. Part of the plan is REQUIRED spending on maintenance and replacements. Schools try to use crap forever, I know of TWO schools that still has 10 base T switches in place and Freaking HP routers.

Schools need to be forced to upgrade the gear. All networking gear replaced every 5 years no matter what. Until we get competent people in charge at public schools the technology will continue to be a joke.

Even rich school are running with 10+ year old crap. Honestly VGA for the classroom video to a freaking projector that needed a bulb 2 years ago is shameful.

You can also stop and get more water. I know I know.... Crazy talk.

It is certainly interesting that deciding whether or not to kill some fleshy humans can be demonstrated to be circumscribed by the halting problem; but it's always a bit irksome to see another proof-of-limitiations-of-turing-complete-system that (either by omission, or in more optimistic cases directly) ignores the distinct possibility that humans are no more than turing complete.

Humans certainly are enormously capable at approximate solutions to brutally nasty problems(eg. computational linguistics vs. the average human toddler); but that is very different from a demonstration that, say, humans possess an Oracle, or are some sort of hypercomputational system, rather than simply being enormously good at hard-but-not-theoretically-intractable problems in certain areas.

In this instance it's especially galling because we've only been philosophizing about acceptable losses, 'just war', legitimate causus belli, 'proportionality', and whatnot for about as long as we've been chucking spears at one another. It's a pure commonplace that a mixture of overkill and underkill is an effectively certain outcome when you go to war. It is interesting that, in principle, kill/no-kill is subject to the halting problem; but has anyone (aside from sleazy assholes hyping 'smart' weapons) ever asserted that kill decisions would be anything but imprecise?

"You're willing to sit on the sidelines while ISIS engages in a campaign of genocide and ethnic/religious cleansing?"

This has been happening in the Middle East for more than 1000 years. If you think ISIS is something new then you really need to get an education.
Murdering each other is a way of life in the Middle east. Their holy books demand you kill non believers.

Quran (2:191-193) - "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief] is worse than killing...
but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)"

The difference between the factions of Muslims are trivial, yet they murder each other based on this exact passage. ISIS LIVES by this passage and guess what, Thousands upon thousands of groups before them have done the same.

Trying to bring peace to the middle east is as futile as trying to stop the sun from shining.

Oceania have always been at war with EastAsia.

yet none of those senators have the guts to bring up repealing PATRIOT.

That needs to be repealed, it's 100% evil and they all know it.

I am the LAW!

Maybe it's just polite foreplay?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

Everyone is heading to trip-advisor and posting scathing reviews of this place right?

This is the internet, this hotel should be buried by now.

Problem is that the Supreme court can be stacked which is bullshit. Plus they can vote AGAINST the constitution without recourse. WE need a change in the system. If they ever go against the constitution for any reason, that judge is hanged immediately right there. I want a fracking Gallows in the courtroom to remind these scumbag justices that they are the FOR THE PEOPLE and FOR THE CONSTITUTION.

If these Corrupt judges were actually doing their job, the PATRIOT ACT and the other anti-america laws passed would have already been shot down.

A Supreme court justice is the last protector of the people (not corporations) and the constitution. And we currently have a bunch of party line puppets in place.

Conscious decision, actually.

I felt writing "hos" was just confusing, I submit that 'ho's' (with the needless apostrophe inserted) is just idiomatic and perhaps the tiniest bit metaphorical.