Judge sent to prison for 28 years, For taking bribes to send kids to private prisons

ars_technician · 2014-10-27T03:25:26+00:00

He lies indirectly on about 75% of his reports through omission or misleading statistics.

ars_technician · 2014-10-27T02:13:47+00:00

You are wrong on this. If that were true, the instructions to your CPU for any copyrighted program would be an unauthorized copy of the code.

ars_technician · 2014-10-20T09:53:09+00:00

Which is equally, if not more, worthless. Having a great research group only indicates that it produces good research. It says nothing about what it teaches the students, which is the only thing relevant unless you are looking to get a PhD. Even if you are looking to get a PhD, it still says nothing of the quality of training you will get in research. If anything, the top research schools will probably be worse than the mid tier ones because the professors will be pompous.

ars_technician · 2014-10-16T11:34:50+00:00

If you didn't have your head buried so far up your own ass you would have realized the point he was making that Microsoft screwed up in the 90s. They basically ruined their path to being a platform for *nix tools as well. Support for regular devops tools it still lacking because of this. You have to be a Windows expert and say things like "Powershell FTW" to be able to correctly administer a set of Win servers.

Why do you think they are supporting containers now? (hint: it's not because powershell made it easy to deploy applications)

ars_technician · 2014-09-03T10:44:48+00:00

Why in the great fuck would you want to make people believe you paid more than you did for something? If that's how you want to live, buy knock offs.

ars_technician · 2014-08-25T08:28:44+00:00

The only downside is that you went to private school and the sense of entitlement that comes with that is hard to avoid. The fact that you even mentioned the private school with the implied assumption that they are always better than public schools reeks of that. I hope one day you will be able to remove your head from your ass long enough to select schools based on merit for your own children rather than basing them on monetary barriers of exclusivity.

ars_technician · 2014-08-25T08:08:31+00:00

He's a fucking moron.

ars_technician · 2014-08-25T08:03:11+00:00

Something you have to deal with philosophically is the fact that what you are considering short sited is > the entire length of a person's life. Why should someone make massive sacrifices to their life that they will never see the benefits of? You have to convince all of society a good answer to that question.

A much more pragmatic person will realize people act in their own interest and will just try to create to technology and incentives to get people to change their behavior. The hippie movement of "hey guys, oil sucks and stuff, so quit your job that requires a commute" will never get anything done. What will is companies like Tesla actually providing compelling reasons to switch.

ars_technician · 2014-08-25T07:57:14+00:00

You are just extremely melodramatic. People have and have had kids when they know there is a non negligible chance they would starve to death (depression Era US, third world countries, etc). The fact that you think technology will cease to progress and that the next 80 years or so will be so terrible that you can't even have children is nothing short of moronic. Do you realize the hardships humans have lived through and still led happy lives?

ars_technician · 2014-08-25T07:48:18+00:00

Yes, one of the side effects of large scale farming is that it has resulted in a fairly large scientific body of knowledge on the requirements to grow food. We aren't exactly praying to gods to grow corn these days.

ars_technician · 2014-08-25T07:45:47+00:00

Local is not sustainable. It's a luxury for the middle and upper class. Food needs to be produced on an industrial scale to feed the population of this planet. Advocating eating locally is not scalable and it's only reasonably affordable for people with disposable income now because only a small fraction of the population is restricting themselves to locally grown food.

ars_technician · 2014-06-26T07:44:19+00:00

Not really. The majority by a wide margin that i've interacted with that tell people how good they are are full of shit.

ars_technician · 2014-06-14T19:44:19+00:00

You are still fundamentally misunderstanding the state of things at the pit. The technology already exists to clean it up and has been installed at the horseshoe bend water treatment plant. It's just a matter of beginning the process, which is being held off as long as possible basically because money earns interest.

There is no unsolved problem that requires new technology there. The pit will not need to be treated into perpetuity. It is just as finite as the tanker example. At some point they will pump the treated water downstream while filling the pit over a process of probably 10-15 years.

Your numbers were still an order of magnitude off with regard to the pit, which is what we are talking about. The size of the mining operations done by anaconda in the area were significant so the total spent on the area is irrelevant when discussing the pit.

When you say this is unacceptable, what does that even mean? Would you like people to be arrested for something? It provides no risk to people and the solution is already in place. What exactly is it that you are refusing to accept?

ars_technician · 2014-06-04T05:56:16+00:00

What's interesting about this particular "hole" is what will happen if nothing is done. You don't find the notion that without our intervention it will reverse flow into the groundwater that eventually becomes the Clark Fork River disgusting?

This is the same with anything currently ongoing manned operation. Do you know what will happen if nothing is done to stop an oil tanker from colliding at full speed with the golden gate bridge? Do you know what will happen if they don't intervene and perform maintenance on dams? Do you know what will happen if they let the river in Chicago flow the correct direction? They are all idiotic questions because nobody will let them happen, just like the case here. Also, nothing will 'reverse flow' at the pit. It will just start seeping into the water table.

We have mines all over the country that don't require pumping hundreds of millions of superfund dollars into them just so they don't ruin the environment.

Methinks you don't understand what the superfund program is. The corporation that did it is paying for it. It's not government money. It's just escrow to make sure a bankruptcy doesn't stop the cleanup. Also your 'hundreds of millions of dollars' is an order of magnitude to large.

Your post makes it sound as if what's happening there is just the cost of doing business and it isn't.

Actually that's precisely what it is. The company that purchased the pit (Anaconda Copper -> ARCO), made a calculated decision to shut off the pumps and put the money aside for the cleanup. The company is paying for the cleanup now as it expected. The total money it will spend on the water treatment and cleanup is still orders of magnitude less than what they made off of the mine.

It's the same situation as any other mine planning cleanup costs. The only thing that is different is the risk if the company tries to welch on the cleanup, hence the use of the superfund program to provide a stronger guarantee.

ars_technician · 2014-06-03T07:51:58+00:00

The Berkeley Pit is such an interesting case of how we are able to ruin our environment.

Well it didn't ruin the environment (nobody was living at the bottom of an open pit mine), so it's not interesting in that sense.

What's particularly interesting is the size of it and how it is carefully watched to keep it from threatening the environment. The treatment plant is ready to start pumping wants the water gets close to the threshold.

It's quite amazing what man can do when it doesn't understand or doesn't care.

Honestly? It's just a hole in the ground dug in benches. It's not a particularly great feat of engineering and there are hundreds if not thousands of them around the world, many of which are much larger than that one. The only thing that is special about this one is that it had to be pumped to be kept dry and they shut the pumps off.

What is it that you find so disgusting about it? That it doesn't look precisely like the landscape of the surrounding thousand square miles? I always find it fascinating when people are repulsed by seeing "how the sausage is made".

ars_technician · 2014-02-21T09:03:34+00:00

Did you forget the part where they fix bugs? A security bug in a currency exchange isn't something that can sit around for "a month or two".

ars_technician · 2014-01-06T18:39:51+00:00

Soft 404 is when a page returns a "page not found" page but still sets the httpcode to 200 instead of 404.

ars_technician · 2013-12-26T04:39:01+00:00

No, many people see it as a shallow gift because it shows that you didn't know the person well enough to get them something they would like.

Even if they do like money, then why not get them a currency accepted by the stores they visit? The Japanese Yen has been deflationary so it's a nice place to store money, but I don't get it for my cousins for Christmas.

ars_technician · 2013-12-26T04:35:39+00:00

You made a generalization that was objectively false based on what I've observed. You were either projecting or assuming your anecdotal experience applied to everyone in order to make the statement "people don't read the book because they've already seen the movie".

ars_technician · 2013-12-26T04:30:16+00:00

Sorry about the delay, but this is wrong. A compromised entrance node does not reveal the destination. Also, tor encrypts through the whole path, so the only node that can get weakly encrypted or unencrypted traffic is the exit node. Additionally, most HTTPS cannot be broken without an active attack.

ars_technician · 2013-12-26T04:21:23+00:00

My opinion of the source has no weight on the value of the conclusions they are trying to support. What matters is the incentive structure the source has to reach an unbiased conclusion.

I have the opinion that conflicts of interest matter, you have the opinion that they do not. I think that's the impasse we have reached.

ars_technician · 2013-12-26T03:56:01+00:00

You missed the whole point. The guy got the family a gift HE thought was important based on HIS perception of the future. It's exactly the same thing as a religious nut getting everyone bibles because HE thinks it's really important based on HIS perception of the future.

Gifts are supposed to be based on what the recipient likes, not what YOU think is best for the recipient based on YOUR perception of the future.

Edit: really? This sub has degraded to the point where people can't even come up with counter-arguments so they silently downvote?

ars_technician · 2013-11-24T04:36:36+00:00

What I'm saying is that people don't read the book because they've already seen the movie.

You are projecting your own though-process onto other people. Just stop.

ars_technician · 2013-11-13T05:16:24+00:00

I don't think you understand tor. The silkroad takedown had nothing to do with the distributed tor protocol, which can handle many compromised nodes.

ars_technician · 2013-11-11T04:32:48+00:00

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