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3381  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Pilotless Passenger Planes Might Soon Become A Reality. on: April 03, 2015, 03:24:22 PM
From the article:

Quote
Fliers aren't ready for pilotless flights either, according to Cummings.
"People want a human as a pilot who shares their own fate," she said. "We also need a babysitter up front, both to monitor the automation and to take charge if there's an unruly passenger."
Pilotless passenger planes are therefore probably decades away, said John Hansman, an aeronautics and astronautics professor at MIT who heads up the division of humans and automation.
"It's not a technical issue, it's an issue of societal trust," he said.

This describes me perfectly. It seems like more of a perception problem, based on the statistics of drone accidents vs. commercial accidents, but I can state unequivocally I will never fly on a pilotless flight. The thought of it just makes me too uncomfortable.

What about when the pilot catches an error by air traffic control?  For example two airports are close together, and air traffic lines him up for the runway at the wrong airport.  The human would protest, the error would be corrected.  




Consequently, do you think this was a bad pilot or bad air traffic control?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/13/travel/southwest-plane-wrong-airport/index.html
3382  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 147 killed in attack on Kenyan university dormitories by al-Shabab on: April 03, 2015, 03:12:21 PM
The list of countries where such attacks are carried out seem to be increasing.
There seem to be no "safe" countries.  Sad

Crime rates in Africa have been high from a long time. But its disappointing to see they targetted students in this attack. This seems to be the second attack in one year time period, after Westgate shopping mall being the first.
Even though the militant activity seems to have reduced, there are still making potential threats with these kinds of attacks.
Kenya is one of the peaceful places in this world. It just shows you that this terrorism can pop up anywhere.

It's reported they targeted Kenya in response to Kenyan troops being used in the African Union mission targeting militants in Somalia.
3383  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 147 killed in attack on Kenyan university dormitories by al-Shabab on: April 03, 2015, 01:03:49 AM
Another senseless tragedy. When I was younger, I used to "look forward" to the day when things like this no longer happened, believing that as a species we were ever moving towards collective peace. The more I see of the world, the more I realize this will never end. Violence begets violence, and we're too stupid to stop the cycle. Terrorists think if they kill enough people, governments will give them what they want, and governments think if they kill enough terrorists, there will be peace: the snake that eats its own tail.
3384  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Pilotless Passenger Planes Might Soon Become A Reality. on: April 03, 2015, 12:42:00 AM
From the article:

Quote
Fliers aren't ready for pilotless flights either, according to Cummings.
"People want a human as a pilot who shares their own fate," she said. "We also need a babysitter up front, both to monitor the automation and to take charge if there's an unruly passenger."
Pilotless passenger planes are therefore probably decades away, said John Hansman, an aeronautics and astronautics professor at MIT who heads up the division of humans and automation.
"It's not a technical issue, it's an issue of societal trust," he said.

This describes me perfectly. It seems like more of a perception problem, based on the statistics of drone accidents vs. commercial accidents, but I can state unequivocally I will never fly on a pilotless flight. The thought of it just makes me too uncomfortable.
3385  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: April 02, 2015, 11:48:34 PM
Just watched german news.

right now if you fly in the eu there is no id control if you check into the airplane.
this is gonna change now, reason is that the police had great trouble of identifying the victims.

There is also more information about the co pilot.
the german police found his tablet which he used to get information about suicide and the technical aspects of security doors to the pilot cabin.

As a co-pilot, wouldn't he know how the cockpit security door works? That seems odd he would search for that.
3386  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: April 02, 2015, 04:59:35 PM
Finding evidence to support a finding of premeditation.

BERLIN (AP) — The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before he crashed the plane into the French Alps, killing everyone aboard, German prosecutors said Thursday.

Search terms found on a tablet computer at co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's apartment in Duesseldorf provided the first evidence that his actions may have been premeditated.

More: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/prosecutors-lubitz-probed-suicide-methods-cockpit-security/ar-AAalGDv?ocid=ansnewsap11
3387  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: April 01, 2015, 01:29:00 AM
.....

if that is your question.

they are not related to islam in whatsoever way

a religion of peace does not teach killings and the word hatred, kill or violence as a word itself is not found in the Quraan..

you cannot blame a religion for the act of his followers. likewise i cannot blame atheist, christianity, hinduism or other religions because their diciples are doing things wrong.

its not the teachings of the Quraan they act upon but have been brainwashed by political behemoth players to act upon in that way.

That is more a denial than an answer to the question.  

Because the violent Muslims do not share your views.  The world does not share your views.  Radical Imams do not share your views.

So then let us call it "False Islam", and explain to me exactly what verses are misunderstood, misinterpreted or lied about to get to the "False Islam", starting with the Koran and the Haddiths.


you are ridiculous to an extent i cannot explain...
I am able to show how various sects have mis interpreted Christianity.

I do not know why it would be ridiculous to ask how this has been done with Islam.

How should he know how sects he's not part of justify terrorism?
I assume that just as I,not a Christian, can easily show where and how various sects have mis interpreted Christianity....that a member of Islam could do the same, equally easily.  

I could of course be wrong.  

For example, it has been found that ISIS assassins cite the Quran’s verses 8:12 or 47:4 as they behead their hostages.   I could explain that this verse...

    008.012  Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you:      give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers:    smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them."

...in context refers to a case where the Muslims were directly attacked, and therefore it's use by ISIS, is inappropriate in a case of killing a hostage, and is warping the meaning of the verse.

But I do not know these matters, hardly at all, and it would be improper for me to make such guesses.  Yet if someone as ignorant as myself can produce such an answer, what does this make of your question?



So if you, not a Christian, can show how various sects have misinterpreted Christianity, why don't you, not a Muslim, just answer your own question as well?  Obviously you being Christian is not a prerequisite to knowing how things are misinterpreted in Christianity, so being Muslim should not be a prerequisite to knowing how terrorists justify anything.
3388  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 31, 2015, 09:41:41 PM
.....

if that is your question.

they are not related to islam in whatsoever way

a religion of peace does not teach killings and the word hatred, kill or violence as a word itself is not found in the Quraan..

you cannot blame a religion for the act of his followers. likewise i cannot blame atheist, christianity, hinduism or other religions because their diciples are doing things wrong.

its not the teachings of the Quraan they act upon but have been brainwashed by political behemoth players to act upon in that way.

That is more a denial than an answer to the question.   

Because the violent Muslims do not share your views.  The world does not share your views.  Radical Imams do not share your views.

So then let us call it "False Islam", and explain to me exactly what verses are misunderstood, misinterpreted or lied about to get to the "False Islam", starting with the Koran and the Haddiths.


you are ridiculous to an extent i cannot explain...
I am able to show how various sects have mis interpreted Christianity.

I do not know why it would be ridiculous to ask how this has been done with Islam.

How should he know how sects he's not part of justify terrorism?
3389  Other / Politics & Society / Federal agents charged with stealing Silk Road Bitcoins on: March 30, 2015, 08:30:54 PM
Well this is entertaining! One of these clowns deposited his stolen coins with Mt. Gox.  Grin

2 former federal agents charged with stealing Bitcoin during Silk Road probe
By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Reporter

Washington (CNN)The federal government became owners of one of the biggest troves of Bitcoin, thanks to seizing millions of dollars in the digital currency from criminals associated with the online black market Silk Road.

Two federal agents who led the probe allegedly decided they wanted some of the money for themselves, according to a new federal court documents.

The two now-former agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Secret Service are charged with wire fraud, money laundering and other offenses for allegedly stealing Bitcoin during the federal investigation of Silk Road, an underground illicit black market federal prosecutors shut down last year.

The charges in a criminal complaint filed in San Francisco federal court paints a picture of corrupt federal agents trying to enrich themselves as they tried to bring down one of the Internet's top cybercriminals.

The charges against the agents could end up causing complications for the government's case against Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts", the Silk Road founder. Ulbricht was found guilty last year of aiding drug trafficking with his site.​ He is awaiting sentencing. As a result of the case against Ulbricht and others, the federal government seized bitcoin that it said at the time was valued at over $33 million.

The agents are: Carl Force, 46 years old, of Baltimore, a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Shaun Bridges, 32, of Laurel, Maryland, a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service.

Force was a lead agent in the case and was the main investigator communicating with Ulbricht. Force is charged with wire fraud, theft of government property, money laundering and conflict of interest.

Bridges was the computer forensics expert on the case. He is charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

Force allegedly set up fake online personas and tried to extort money from Ulbricht, including once trying to get $250,000 from him in exchange for not providing information to federal investigators, the criminal complaint says.

Using the online persona "French Maid," Force did succeed in getting $100,000 in Bitcoin from Ulbricht, which Force deposited in his personal accounts, the federal complaint says. He later used a series of Bitcoin and personal U.S. dollar transactions, including a $235,000 wire transfer to an account in Panama, to launder the stolen money, prosecutors allege in the complaint.

According to prosecutors, Force also used his position as an executive at a digital currency exchange called CoinMKT, in which he was an investor, to seize accounts of customers. He transferred $297,000 in illegally-seized digital currency to his personal accounts, prosecutors allege in the criminal complaint.

Bridges allegedly stole $820,000, using a series of wire transfers to move Bitcoin that earlier had been stolen from Silk Road in early 2013 and deposited in a Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, according to prosecutors. Two days later, Bridges signed the government's warrant to seize millions of dollars in bitcoin from Mt. Gox accounts.

Later, when he learned the FBI was investigating suspicious activity in the Silk Road investigation, he transferred $250,000 from his personal account to one he shared with someone else, according to the complaint.
3390  Other / Politics & Society / Inside the Texas bill that stops you from filming police brutality on: March 30, 2015, 06:48:30 PM
Great opinion piece that contrasts the use of police body cameras and the resultant drops in police brutality claims and uses of force by police with a Texas bill that would outlaw filming police in order to prevent accountability.

Inside the Texas bill that stops you from filming police brutality
By Matt Rozsa

Those with power must be held accountable for how they use it.

This may seem like a self-evident proposition, but it is actually facing a considerable challenge in Texas right now. If passed, a new bill sponsored by Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) would define the act of “filming, recording, photographing, or documenting the officer within 25 feet of [a police] officer” as “interfering” with their duties and, consequently, as being a crime (the limitation extends to 100 feet for residents carrying a concealed handgun). In short, H.R. 2918 wants to address the problem of police officers abusing citizens’ rights by making it harder in the future to prove that such abuses actually happen.

From a constitutional standpoint, this issue is about as cut-and-dried as they get. As one United States Court of Appeals explained, it is “fundamentally and virtually self-evident” that individuals who videotape police officers do so in order to spread information about the conduct of the individual officer(s) in question. This means that it is clearly protected by the First Amendment (which, we must remember, was created in large part because our founding fathers were being hounded by overzealous officers working on behalf of King George III).

Preventing a citizen from acquiring evidence of law enforcement wrongdoing is akin to prohibiting him or her from taking notes when witnessing an abuse. Unless you believe that one of those responsibilities is being able to harass, beat, or shoot innocent people with impunity, it’s pretty hard to effectively argue that last point.

Perhaps an even greater tragedy, though, is that this bill takes attention away from the possible good that can be wrought from modern technology. After San Diego police officers began wearing body cameras, complaints against police have fallen by 40.5 percent. Furthermore, the use of “personal body” force by officers has dropped by 46.5 percent, while the use of pepper spray has decreased by 30.5 percent.

Similarly, when Chief Tony Farrar of the Police Foundation completed a comprehensive year-long study on the effect of body-worn video cameras, he concluded that “the findings suggest more than a 50 percent reduction in the total number of incidents of use-of-force compared to control-conditions, and nearly 10 times more citizens’ complaints in the 12-months prior to the experiment.”

This isn’t to say that there aren’t downsides to using body cameras. In addition to the financial costs and understandable privacy concerns, there is also the possibility that “the credibility of police testimony against defendants could be discounted in the absence of footage to corroborate the officer's version of events,” as Uri Friedman wrote in a December article for the Atlantic. Similarly, as the report that Farrar co-authored with experts like criminologist Barak Ariel made clear, there was a lack of consensus as to whether the initial promising results caused by body cameras were due to “a deterrent effect on the police, the public, or both.”

Of course, even if there is debate over whether mandatory body cameras for police officers are more pro than con, there isn’t much intelligent question over whether it should be illegal to record them in the line of duty. Unfortunately, this observation has yet to dissuade Rep. Villalba in Texas; indeed, he is far from the first politician to consider such a measure.

Last year, the State of Illinois passed an “anti-eavesdropping” law that would have made it illegal to record interactions with anyone (including police officers) without the other party’s express permission. In its ruling striking down the bill, the Illinois Supreme Court noted that because citizens’ encounters with police were by definition “public,” they couldn’t classify recordings of their conduct as an invasion of their privacy.

By the end of the year, the Illinois legislature replaced their first law with a new one that made it a felony to secretly record any conversation in which at least one person has a “reasonable expectation” to privacy, broadly defined to include “ any expectation recognized by law, including, but not limited to, an expectation derived from a privilege, immunity, or right established by common law, Supreme Court rule, or the Illinois or United States Constitution.”

Indeed, as jury decisions like the one in the aftermath of Eric Garner’s choking makes clear, it is entirely possible for bad cops to be caught red-handed and still get away with it. So why is there any traction behind the movement to make it illegal to record them?

One reason is so obvious that it doesn’t need much elaboration here: Namely, that many of these cops know they are guilty of racial profiling and/or disregarding people’s constitutional rights and wish to avoid getting caught.


That said, as someone who personally has friends and family members that work in law enforcement, I can say from firsthand knowledge that there is an additional reason besides this one. Many law enforcement personnel have, after years of hearing sharp criticism directed at their fellow officers, adopted a mentality which argues that one is either pro-cop or anti-cop, with no room existing between those two extremes. Even Rep. Villalba hinted at this when he referred to the 25-foot perimeter surrounding a cop from being recorded as a “halo.” By using literal angelic imagery to justify his proposed law, he implicitly used their virtuousness as a shield to protect them from accountability.

That premise, of course, is absolutely right, and it goes a long way toward explaining why holding cops accountable is so critically important. We do need police to protect innocent citizens from crime and generally uphold the law. Their services are absolutely essential to the maintenance of a stable and free society, and as such, they are entrusted with enormous power.

As incidents from the beating of Rodney King to the choking of Eric Garner clearly demonstrate, however, police officers—like all other human beings—can abuse that privilege. Hence why the new Texas law is utterly contemptible: At a time when the focus needs to be on how we can hold cops accountable while allowing them to do their jobs effectively, this bill attempts to remove responsibility from power.

Added emphasis is mine.
3391  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: March 29, 2015, 07:34:15 PM
It's pretty easy for me to see how, if the average devout Muslim believes in cutting off hands and feet, and stoning women for certain offenses...

...it is easy for me to see how more radical Muslims, claiming authority from the same book, could think themselves justified in beheading those who did not submit to their ideas, and killing thousands to make terror.

I would like one of the more devout and learned Muslims on this forum to enunciate the logical steps, though them may be in his view in error, that lead radical muslims to believe based on the Koran they have the religious authority to do terrorist acts.

That is after all the subject of this thread.  It really isn't good enough to just deny it - "Oh, the terrorists are not REAL MUSLIMS."  Or to say it's crazy people.
You do claim your religion has authority for righteous violence.  To me and most people on this forum or in the world today, this is crazy talk.

Therefore, please address the question of Islamic terrorism directly.



Please post here with facts. If you are posting it with facts then tell me where it is writte in the Quran that Muslim has the authority to do attcks. Just post here only one verse.

Secondly can you prove all the terrorist are Muslim ,
In the Quran it is said that if some one killed only one person, he killed the hole humanity.

I think you missed his point. He's asking YOU to justify how Muslims believe it is OK for them to take justice and punishment into their own hands, such as cutting off body parts and stoning women to death, and beheading people for violations of Islamic law which they may not even agree to be governed by on account of not being Muslim.
3392  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Peace with Iran on: March 29, 2015, 07:30:18 PM
It's funny that the author attributes the venomous conflict to 1979 when the Iranians took American hostages, and not 1953, when the US overthrew the democratically elected government. But I guess there's not harm in continuing the narrative that we're never at fault for blowback, right?
3393  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Did Allied troops rape 285,000 German women in WWII? on: March 29, 2015, 06:34:44 PM
Only women are allowed to join army, problem solved  Grin

There is a sizable number of women in prison on charges of statutory rape. Hell, there are cases of women prison officials in charge of juvenile prisons being charged with sexual misconduct as well.

Statutory rape isn't exactly the same as violent rape. Statutory rape usually has the consent of the underage party, where forcible rape does not. Statutory rape, even though consent is given, is usually a case of the state saying that the underage party doesn't have the ability to give consent, so the consent isn't legitimate. So I don't think the analogy transfers very well.
3394  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Illinois Public Schools Can Demand Students’ Social Networking Accnt & Passwords on: March 29, 2015, 05:51:41 PM
This is a bit old considering it went into effect in January. Since then, there has been very warranted backlash against the bill. Currently, there are two bills pending to alter the law and limit it's applications. The first one seeks to limit the law by stating that the only permissible circumstances in which a school can be said to have reasonable cause to request a password is when a victim or concerned party, such as a parent, makes a complaint, or school personnel observe an abuse:  http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/99/HB/09900HB3527.htm

The second pending amendment changes the law so that schools can only request a password, and only require it upon a court orderhttp://www.ilga.gov/legislation/99/HB/09900HB4082.htm

The second bill does a lot more to limit the scope of the law. Also note that this law only applies to schools in allowing them to ask for the password, it does not require anyone to actually turn over their password. And the obvious response to this is "Get bent." You can probably mention that it's a violation of the TOS too if you wanted to have an actual reason not to comply. No way in hell I'd let my kid turn over their password. If there's a suspected abuse, the school can bring it to my attention, and I will handle it.

I personally think this law as it is written right now is a slam dunk overturn on the first court challenge. If the second pending amendment passes, it's no longer an issue because schools can request the password all they want, but they can't require it without a court order, which is basically how it was before this law went into effect.
3395  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Protect yourself against Civil Asset Forfeiture on: March 28, 2015, 10:43:53 PM
Sen. Rand Paul on opposing Loretta Lynch nomination and civil asset forfeiture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdzFci2UrRg

My husband BurtW and I have recently learned all about civil forfeiture and Bitcoins the hard way.  I've started a related thread at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1005634.0  

The feds will get your Bitcoins no matter what you do unless you are willing to spend time in a federal prison.  We have to end civil forfeiture.

Institute for Justice (http://www.ij.org/) has been filing, and winning, lawsuits all over the country related to civil forfeiture. It's a great organization.
3396  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Scotland to ban smoking in cars with children on: March 28, 2015, 10:42:46 PM
Your rights generally end where they infringe someone else's. The right of a child not to be forced to inhale smoke trumps your right to smoke in the car with children. This law makes sense. You can view it as nanny state, but you can also view it as recognizing the rights of children. Both are accurate.
3397  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Did Allied troops rape 285,000 German women in WWII? on: March 28, 2015, 09:29:34 PM
There is a saying "he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind". Nazi started the World War II so in a way they are responsible for what happened later to many nations. And I'm not talking only about raping and killing but also for destruction of many cites, art pieces, and so on. Of course what nazi had started is no excuse for raping done by Allied troops.
285,000 raped women seems like a lot, so i'm not totally convinced it was so high number. The method that Dr Gebhardt used is highly implausible.

I'm sorry, but Nazis are not to blame for American soldiers raping. That's a copout of immense proportions. You're responsible for your own actions, regardless of what circumstances brought you to where you are. The sin of these crimes rest solely on the people who used force on innocent civilians, without exception.
3398  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Protect yourself against Civil Asset Forfeiture on: March 28, 2015, 09:19:08 PM
The only way to protect yourself against the moral setback that comes with seizure of your property is not to protect your property (you can't) but to protect your mind (you can) by abandonning materialism. If you don't care about property, you won't bother seeking property, won't attach to property emotionally, and will therefore be safe from all and every attacks of that seek to wrong you at a materialistic level.

This logic can be extended to anything. The only way to protect yourself against being unjustly imprisoned is to abandon your attachment to your freedom. Doesn't that seem silly?
3399  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Tesla updates software to roll out driverless cars in three months on: March 28, 2015, 06:53:06 PM
I will never buy a self-driving car, because I like the act of driving too much. I don't understand the appeal to a car that drives itself. It takes all the joy out of cars.

In the fast-approaching 'Internet of Everything' World you will not have a choice.  Probably 20 years out. Driving a car by steering wheel will become as archaic as using a Vic 20 to game on.



I would bet serious money it will never be mandated in the US. People won't tolerate losing such an essential freedom. Besides, I can't see companies being able to handle the potential liability. Any accident would forever be the fault of the car company now. Plus, in order for such a system to work, there would need to be a massive database that monitors and controls all traffic and has access to every car's location and destination in order to pre-plot any potential problems with other cars. If it didn't, cars would only be able to react to their immediate surroundings, which would be chaotic and self-defeating.
3400  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 28, 2015, 06:45:29 PM
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm

This site is full of air accident stats. Number of accidents and fatalities have both been trending down, even though the number of flights increases year over year. 2014 was an outlier year in terms of number of fatalities.



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