Comment Re:Pony up (Score 1) 156
Northern winters are a little too chilly to be sticking my hand out the window to adjust the rearview mirror.
How often do you adjust your side mirrors? For me, it's once and then leave it there the rest of the life.
Northern winters are a little too chilly to be sticking my hand out the window to adjust the rearview mirror.
How often do you adjust your side mirrors? For me, it's once and then leave it there the rest of the life.
The Trash 80s? Had a Commodore PET 3032. A whole 1 megahertz. On the other hand, the IEEE 488 meant that I could send a command to one disk drive to transfer to a second disk drive, whilst printing, with the computer then totally free to actually do other stuff. SCSI it wasn't, but for the time, it was an ingenious solution to a lot of problems.
Sheer luxury, lad! Sheer luxury!
We had to make our own bits and push them uphill! Both ways! In the snow!
Pah, youngsters.
However, some of you might be old enough to remember the April 1st when the front page turned pink and a link to Cute Overload caused absolute chaos. Did CmdrTaco ever get a pony, btw?
And the number of false convictions (roughly 25% of those convicted in the US) doesn't cause a problem for you?
Then you're part of the problem.
We've been reading your comments for decades.
And yet you're still here. Thanks.
It's not them. It's you.
Says the guy who's never read the source code. What a dumpster fire.
Not you, the systemd source code.
US: 66% (Wall Street's numbers aren't those found in official statistics)
UK: 28.9%
Holland: 23%
Norway: 16%
China: 6%
US' conclusion: The rate is a complete mystery, we've no idea how to decrease it, let's do more of what we're currently doing differently to everyone else.
There is a slight possibility this may be flawed.
There are some people who just can't be rehabilitated.
No that is too strong a claim. The best you can say is, "There are people we don't know how to rehabilitate."
Our understanding of the brain and psychology is so weak that over the next century or so, our knowledge is going to increase dramatically. Not long ago, people were seriously doing lobotomies (there's an argument to be made that we are still doing it today, but with chemicals. Certainly our understanding and treatment of ADHD will improve dramatically in the future, and what we do now will seem archaic if not barbaric).
America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison,"
A noble and excellent goal. 90% of Americans can support this (the others are profiting from it).
bring together prisoner data from its disparate sources into digital dashboards. From there, corrections staff can see information — such as court records and notes from parole-board hearings — about a prisoner or parolee all in one place.
Ok, sounds like a great thing for computers to do. If they can get AI to help, then great. (Note: the AI isn't going to open manila folders).
The company says its efforts are working: Recidivism has fallen 16% in the prison population its systems track. It is the result of "just streamlining these workflows and knitting someone's journey together end to end,
Sounds like they are not releasing people with a high risk of recidivism. In other words, they haven't fixed the problem of recidivism, they've just kept people in jail longer.
Passwords are implemented as a result of insecurity.