Do you like the capabilities your pre-frontal cortex gives you, like executive functions, impulse control, etc?
Then don't play football.
Avoidable brain damage is stupid. Avoidable mechanical brain damage twice so.
But...but...where will we get future cops and politicians from, if there are no more government-indoctrinated violent and aggressive brain-damaged.individuals being turned out by schools?
Strat
I agree, you're the first one besides myself I've seen mention this.
They have already been used to present evidence of corporate wrong doings.
1 example.
http://consumerist.com/2012/01... [consumerist.com]
Yes, they are a force multiplier for people against both public and private sector corruption, criminality, violence, and tyranny.
That's why unelected bureaucrats creating regulations with the force and criminal penalties of a Federal felony are an unconstitutional abomination and a clear assault on individual freedom and civil rights, plus accomplishing further destruction of the separation of powers between the Executive and Legislative branches of the US government.
Strat
Funny how this revelation comes out just before they are about to release their regulations for "drones".
The biggest dangers that drones present from the perspective of those in government are that drones in civilian hands are a force-equalizer and also hamper the ability of those in government to operate without being observed.
Any other reasons for government regulation of drones are secondary to those primary motivations and also serve as a smokescreen to cover for those primary motivations.
Strat
Surely there's better tech than what we use today to prevent our automobiles from becoming lethal ovens.
Certainly there is. You can just cook your kids and pets at home, no need to waste the gas going out at all. Home ovens have been large enough to do this for decades now. People are so wasteful!
--Hannibal
Now, see!?
That is the kind of straightforward and direct, logical, practical, problem-solving engineer-style thinking
Bravo Sir, bravo!
Strat
I am on Slashdot! Holy crap! I am so excited!
Nice to see that even Apu reads
Strat
It's ok to be a thug who roughs up old shopkeepers to steal form them, and then punch a cop and try to grab a gun? I'm supposed to feel sorry at the death of that kind of low life?
Brown was just trying to "spread the wealth"!
Then an obviously-racist cop stopped him (Wilson is white and Brown was black, so racism on Wilson's part is automatically a fact). Brown was simply defending himself against being prevented from "sharing" more of other people's hard-earned wealth. Brown is a warrior of Social Justice and an obvious victim of racism!
The cognitive dissonance displayed here by Brown supporters is stunning. The reality-distortion field generated rivals that of Apple/Jobs.
Strat
Keep in mind that Einstein is a DHS program for monitoring the security of government networks from an internal point of view. It consolidates information from participating agencies' firewalls, intrusion detection systems, malware detection, anti-virus scanners, etc,. It has nothing to do with monitoring anyone or anything aside from government-owned systems, government-owned internal networks (i.e. the LAN in a government office building), and the actions of government employees using those internal government-owned stems and networks. In other words, it's exactly the same sort of thing every major company, university, or other organization does in their security operations centers.
Whether or not the data should be kept around for research purposes is a worthwhile question, although publishing it would require a lot of sanitization to avoid revealing data that would be useful to attackers (for instance, the name, IP address, and precise version number of every firewall within a given agency).
But in this case it's not about covering up any surveillance or information gathering on public behavior.
How about records of one or more government agencies intruding into other government agency's or branch's networks?
For instance, could there be evidence contained in those logs of TLAs intruding into the networks of Congress, the SCOTUS, etc?
Never mind TLAs spying on normal everyday citizens. The Executive Branch has been quite cavalier of late in spying on those in the other branches of government, particularly when said other branches may be deciding whether or not to exercise their duty and ability to limit the Executive Branch's power and scope.
This data could provide hard evidence regarding just how extensive and pervasive these practices have become.
Strat
If a device is used on the airwaves in the cell phone bands to emulate a tower, then necessarily, it will have to have a transmitter. Is the device type registered by the FCC, does each emulator have a site license? Does each operator have a license to operate the device?
If it is a "cell phone test device" then it must be associated with a properly licensed technician.
The legal requirements to simply operate the device include much more than the rights of the person of interest. For that reason alone, the concealment of the use of the device would be reason enough to throw out any information obtained from it, even before any case law is considered.
IANAL, but I have had 6 different FCC licenses, and have had to jump through many hoops. (I think only 3 are current now).
The FCC is an Executive Branch agency, the same as the NSA, DoJ, etc.
If any bright-boy at the FCC *did* bring up the legal status concerning use of Stingrays FCC-regulation-wise, he'd be told to shut up, and also quite likely put on a surveillance list as a possible security/leak threat. "The most transparent administration in history" is extremely aggressive about stomping on whistelblowers and their families with government jackboots.
Strat
Do you have some mechanism for seizing US government assets? Particularly if you aren't another government?
Yes.
It's called a 'scoped high-powered rifle in the hands of tens of thousands of citizens.
Apply to political leaders until resistance to citizens seizing (reclaiming their stolen) assets stops.
Strat
Maybe a Variable Sword?
http://news.larryniven.net/con... [larryniven.net]
I was thinking that such an incredubly thin and strong filament would make an ideal ultra-sharp cutting edge for a Vibroblade type of weapon utilizing ultrasonic vibration to multiply the cutting effectiveness even more..
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki...
Now, if one were to have a handle from which sprang an end-disc by a telescoping rod, and attached to the circumference of that disc, and extending back down to the handle, were these insanely-sharp nano-threads, heated possibly by electricity akin to an everyday electrical heating element, or by the energy of the ultrasound energy itself such that it appeared like a column of glowing light growing out from the handle, you'd have a good approximation of a Light Saber.
Heck, the slight differences in the precise frequency each thread would be vibrating at would likely cause relatively-low frequency harmonic notes equal to the difference in frequency between each thread. You would have the humming and slight frequency & phase shifts produced by light sabers being swung around.
Wish I had the resources to throw at the problem. Heck, even if it didn't turn out to be exactly a "light saber", an ultrasonic nano-thread sword that could slice through heavy armor like butter would be awesome, not to mention all the practical industrial and medical potential such a tool would posses.
Strat
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
