Cameras are only useful if you have someone to go through all the footage, and when the camera isn't the first thing to get vandalized.
But that's not the real problem as I see it. Endless traffic jams is what I envision, because autonomous systems have to err on the side of caution, and stop whenever they face something they haven't been programmed for. There is no such thing as an expert system with common sense.
> Your state needs the tax dollars, so it's not so bad.
I disagree. Taxachusetts needs to drastically cut administrative overhead and slash thousands of public hack jobs.
Also, the one in something like 30-billion chance that you contract it through a handshake? It hasn't ever been confirmed to happen but is theoretically possible. Also, I hope you don't use public toilets, because some HIV strains have been evolved which can survive for long periods in the open air on hard surfaces. Don't use public restrooms, don't touch handrails, etc.
Not everyone with HIV is gay (most aren't!), has "unsafe" sex, or does IV drugs.
So you're not a dentist, a physician, surgeon, EMT, tattoist, piercer, virus technician, phlebotomist, LNA, RN, LPN, or a compassionate person with first aid skills so you would never, ever come into contact with anyone else's blood, and you're fortunate enough to never, ever need a transfusion, require dental work, or any surgery or injections? There are people who live straight-edge lives who have contracted HIV, you know - and that doesn't take into account rape victims, children of AIDS patients, and so on.
Also, HIV is prevalently a heterosexual disease now. It hasn't been a predominantly gay disease since the 1980s. FYI condoms are only 90% effective at best, so I hope your whores aren't infected.
"faculty who aren't on the tenure-track appear to do a better job at teaching freshmen undergraduates in their introductory courses than their tenured/tenure-track peers"
Emphasis mine.
That should not be extrapolated into tenured professors being worse teachers overall. I'm pretty certain that for advanced studies, the opposite is true, if nothing else because the untenured teachers don't have the same chance to specialize.
And then please tell me what you all would expect her to say... Please! Knock me over with a feather!
"Okay, I'll do as you say, and grab my ankles. But please wear a condom?"
The only practical recourse I see is to challenge the demands as much as you're allowed to, and tell people as much as you can. And hope that the public one day will be more interested in their dwindling liberties than in Kardashians, price of gasoline and hoop ball.
In other words, it's fighting a losing battle. The nation is sinking, and probably has to reach bottom to find leverage to kick upwards. I don't see 'Tis of Thee returning to glory in my lifetime, nor that of our children. One day, though, there may be an Imperium Romanum 3.0 that does better.
Instead of adding additional circuitry to the target design, we insert our hardware Trojans by changing the dopant polarity of existing transistors. Since the modified circuit appears legitimate on all wiring layers (including all metal and polysilicon), our family of Trojans is resistant to most detection techniques, including fine-grain optical inspection and checking against "golden chips".
In a test of their technique against Intel's Ivy Bridge Random Number Generator (RNG) the researchers found that by setting selected flip-flop outputs to zero or one
Our Trojan is capable of reducing the security of the produced random number from 128 bits to n bits, where n can be chosen.
They conclude that
Since the Trojan RNG has an entropy of n bits and [the original circuitry] uses a very good digital post-processing, namely AES, the Trojan easily passes the NIST random number test suite if n is chosen sufficiently high by the attacker. We tested the Trojan for n = 32 with the NIST random number test suite and it passed for all tests. The higher the value n that the attacker chooses, the harder it will be for an evaluator to detect that the random numbers have been compromised.
"If we are not careful, the deadly attacks on New York and Washington will lead to far worse secondary damage, if the U.S. Congress adopts 'preventive measures' that take away the freedom that America stands for. I'm not talking about searches at airports here. Searches of people or baggage for weapons, as long as they check only for weapons and keep no records about you if you have no weapons, are just an inconvenience; they do not endanger civil liberties. What I am worried about is massive surveillance of all aspects of life: of our phone calls, of our email, and of our physical movements... Even more ominously, a proposal to require government back doors in encryption software has already appeared."
Twelve years later, all of it has come true.
Off on it's way to become V'ger, come back looking for its creator, build a probe in the image of a carbon unit, then merge with a carbon unit, leave our dimension, and finally, some suspect, go psychotic and eventually evolve into the Borg.
We could always make nice with North Korea or Iran and buy theirs. . .
> If trek was real life (it isn't),
Thank you for clarifying that.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
