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"Similarly priced" means that's a lot of x86 servers.

I see what you snuck in there...(last item)

from TFA: `sudo apt-get install nginx emacs`

The part that resonated in the guide for me was the control questions, and identifying the expected lies. Dealing with those is all I ever did. Your goal during the test is to raise the output from the control questions as high as possible.

For example, the control question I got in at least 7 examinations was the same: "Have you ever stolen anything in your life?"

When I heard the question, I did three things at once:

1) Mentally tried to divide 1717 by 3, over and over, knowing that I would not solve it and allowing that to make me anxious.

2) Increase my rate of breathing(pretend you are inflating party balloons).

3) Tense my entire body, by imagining fire ants crawling up my legs, about to reach my groin.

A few seconds later(don't wait to long), I answered "no". The examiner pauses, and asks if I have told him the truth. I confess to petty crimes such as stealing candy from my sister as a young child, and further confess I knew it at the time I answered, but was ashamed to tell him.

There will be several more control questions, and some of them(obvious ones) will be of that type(an expected lie, but not relevant to the topic of the examination). When you give the expected lies, you want to raise the baseline. When you give expected truths(such as "Are the lights on in this room?"), you want to answer normally. The end goal, is that any response your body has to a real conceived lie, should be lower than what you exhibited during the control questions for expected lies.

Polygraph examinations aren't admissible in that way. Otherwise crime would be as simple as pass/fail not-guilty/guilty.

This is why a (good) defense attorney advises you against taking a polygraph if one is offered during a trial. If you pass, the case is not magically dismissed: it's useless. If you fail, you aren't automatically convicted, but the jury has their view of you negatively influenced by your failure of the test. You have nothing to gain by taking and passing one in court, but you have an undefined jury sentiment to lose should you fail.

Read my comment again please - I'm not a lying fed, a troll, or anything else malicious. I'm not in the industry I once was, which involved regular polygraph examinations. I have no plans to return to the industry. Posting my comment carries zero-to-low risk for me. If it helps even 1 person, then it's worth it.

All I'm saying is... if you are about to take a polygraph, or think you will in the near future: it is in your best interest to read this guide. On another note, after you read the guide and possibly benefit from it...you might find your attitude towards them changed. If the polygraph remains the de facto "lie detector", then we can all rest easy: because they are trivial to pass.

I have taken and "passed" multiple polygraph examinations by US state-level agencies. Providing truthful answers would have disqualified me in each test, and I have never been disqualified. This book is very accurate, and has been my only influence/guide/assistance in every polygraph I have submitted to(ie I have no "training" in this field). I have not read this new edition, but I can't say enough good things about the prior ones.

Different autopilot for that: "autoland". Pretty neat stuff!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland

To reply to my own post.... attach wifi transmitting collars to the 9 cats you adopt.

You'll stand out if you do that....don't stand out. Just add more noise to the signal(more transmitters, that randomly beam shape and increase/decrease gain). Better to appear neurotic than suspicious, IMHO.

Anyone know of a code sample or available project that implements this? Would be a lot of fun to try at home and the office.

Sounds great! And us, the public, will have access to this as well.....right? Can we watch a live-map of police and other state-employed persons with a positive facial match as they move about? No? Why not? Well that's how we feel too.

>>Truth is, it will be used for purposes other than related to terrorism or serious crime. It’s alarming how democratic countries are invading the privacy of their own citizens, creating mass surveillance machinery that could become uncontrollably detrimental to the very institutions and structures that they claim to value and protect. Among the FIVE EYES countries, Australia seems to be doing a lot more (comparatively) on mass surveillance and having the legislative backing for it.

It's easy to show an example scenario that almost always causes a system to like this to abuse privacy. Take the system, FR in this case, and insert the use case "Politician XYZ's 3-year old daughter has been abducted, and the FR system we promised not to use for this purpose could identify their captor!". Works every time. Once you do it that first time, the seal is broken for future abuse.

I don't think any of this is likely, even remotely.... but if it was, they wouldn't be motivated by adding that 1% to their user base. The motivation would be to deprive the competition of that 1% user-base: weaker competition.

I drink chocolate milk, usually about 1 hour in. After the exercise is complete, a real meal is exactly what you need. No arguments there at all.

While you're training someone(or yourself) for any type of endurance event(eg triathlon), it's not uncommon to toss them a sugary(decaffeinated!) soda or juice. You're goal is to make sure they never exhaust that available supply of glucose until the event is complete. If they do, along with cannibalizing their muscle mass, they're going to have short-term discomfort(cramps, mental fogginess).

Taking in sugar both during and after a workout is important. However, there is the problem that "workout" leaves a lot to interpretation. Do you do 20 minutes on a stationary bike? Do you walk around for an hour from circuit machine to circuit machine, with less than 10 minutes actually spent during sets? If you answered yes, then sugar isn't what you need. You don't need anything at all, except some real exercise.

If on the other hand, your exercise is strenuous, and depletes your bloodstream's glucose, and your liver's short-term supply of glucose, then you absolutely need sugar. Otherwise, your body will efficiently convert whatever is at hand to sugar. The most "at hand" ingredient from your body's point of view, is your lean muscle mass. You don't want to lose that. However if you have these kind of exercise sessions, then you already know this, so keep on doing what you're doing.

Would these people refuse to drink water 200 years ago? If not, they would most likely die. It's almost as if there is some evolutionary element at work here...bad decisions take you out of the gene pool the rest of us are splashing around in. Unfortunately at this day in age, we find ways to keep these humans alive, and empower them to share their suicidal preferences via the internet.

They didn't have options - every single Google employee(past and present) has options. They selected this one, voluntarily. Indentured servitude is not a valid analogy.

I'm not trying to troll you, but it's a voluntary "denial of justice". No one compels or coerces people to seek employment there. They apply, go through several interviews, and then voluntarily agree to whatever it is they agree to before day #1 of work. As long as people are willing to work there under XYZ conditions, people will continue to work there under XYZ conditions.

There isn't a trick. Resentment is what you feel when you kill yourself over a lifetime to achieve what someone else has given to them. All I can offer is "don't think about it to much".

disclaimer: Just as resentful as you are. I paid for college by enlisting in the military. Glad I could do my little part to keep the country safer for people like her...see? There is that resentment coming on again, it's such a tricky bastard of a feeling.

Does Slartibartfast know about this!? He was quite proud of those fjords..

Yes there is, especially if it results in the consumer paying more for a product. That's the government taking (additional) money away from you, and handing it to a local company.

If that doesn't make sense, an example could help when you want to buy a hypothetical WidgetBox.

Amazon WidgetBox: $100.00

Local WidgetBox: $102.00

After the added tax on Amazon, now you have no choice but to pay $102.00 for something you could previously pay $100.00 for. In business speak, it's call "screwing you" - in the article it's dressed up as "helping local businesses (screw you)".

>> US politicians apparently don't have time to deal with privacy issues and gdpr. They're too busy

...trying to get re-elected. Every action they take is with that singular goal in mind.

2013, OpenStack at HP, aka Helion? Anupriya Ramraj - is that you? :) If so, your old team misses that project. We're bored these days.

>> Maybe because IBM would have provided a superior price, and RedHat is a public company answerable to shareholders.

I think a lot of readers probably don't understand what that line means. Even if the C-suite at RedHat did not want to do this, they have no choice. Shareholders can riot and oust you(executives) for not taking what they consider to be the "best deal"(and this is one heck of a deal). Long story short, even if you don't want to sell - once the price is high enough, the shareholders will force you.

Would a dog whistle trip this alarm? Then you know it's there, and no pesky humans are disturbed by your test.

Got the enhanced BG...but I didn't know there was an enhanced Planescape Torment, that's awesome news. That was such a favorite game. Does the enhanced release work well for you under linux? Any big breaking issues?

Time-lapsed video of what this looks like once it's in the mold would be interesting. Some more technical specs about the time involved and volume of materials would be interesting as well. Maybe there will be a follow up article?

SOG I suspect typically comes in through the skylight :)

>> What's your career path?

Programmer/sysadmin type, the aerial surveying was for fun in my 20's.

>> a) These areas are restricted airspace, and most of the aerial imagery Google et al buy is taken from airplanes.

Just replying to point out that this is true. I worked 3 summers for "Aerometric", a company that does exactly this. We flew flight lines from 10-20 thousand feet with a huge camera rig. Those photos were transmitted back to corporate, where they are stitched back together to form large high-resolution aerial maps. Our customers were usually timber companies, gas/oil companies, and occasionally FEMA.

Until that job, I naively assumed everything was a satellite image with some Bond-like zoom capabilities.