Slashdot Mirror

Try citing the actual case.

The relevant case is Ex parte Garland (1867), in which Justice Stephen J. Field, writing for the court in a 5-4 decision, wrote that a president's pardon power ''extends to every offense known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.'' This precedent was reaffirmed in Murphy v. Ford (1975).

I don't know what this $9K stuff is. There are plenty of places not nearly that expensive where you don't pay for a brand name -- or pay a private institution (with premium so it can also be profitable for the owners), including:

Georgia Tech, $4129 for in-state residents. UWYO, $108 per credit hour, undergrad. ULL, undergrad tuition $3147 per semester for 20 or more credit hours. Graduate tuition $3574 maximum.

Elizabeth City State University, NC $4,428 in-state tuition.

Sul Ross State University (Texas) $4800

Northwestern (Oklahoma) $5K

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Admittedly, prices have gone up since I left, but are still nothing compared to the prices I see my coworkers quote for the schools they went to.

$230.0/hr for Undergrad at "full-time" status of 12 hours, or $186.0/hr when you take 15 hours like I tried to always do.

$331.34/hr for Graduate "full-time" at 9 hours, $264.00/hr if you can manage 12 hours (4 classes).

Both are resident prices. Non-resident works out to be like 3X for Undergrad and 2X for Grad, I believe.

Even 12 hours of graduate school for a semester is still less than UC was asking for some of these classes...

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~avm1260/atheism/dawn.html

Yes, I have, and I still miss them. Your problem was that you (apparently) tried to use Unix on them, rather than VMS, and the common language interface (which allowed you to do system calls and fancy string handling in fortran 77). Once you grokked the Orange Wall (and later Grey Wall), VMS was easy to manage, and rock solid. It used funky networking of course (CMUTEK tcp/ip still gives me shudders), but if you had all VAXes, then DECNET was no big deal. Truly a loss, and superior to many of its successors.

I miss my VAXstation and the 11/785.

turbo pascal 2 was also great, but they never cleanly made the transition to the Windows world. I'm sorry to lose the simplicity of TP2 (which would be great now because you'd just link it to other libraries, rather than rely upon Borland's oddball implementations), and there was always the attempt to be different, such as Turbo Prolog.

Try allintitle: worked for me! It was on the first page. (Well, one link away; however the text "C+@" _was_ in the discription text)
Also try calico. (aka)

Try allintitle: worked for me! It was on the first page. (Well, one link away; however the text "C+@" _was_ in the discription text)
Also try calico. (aka)

Yeah all of those :-)

It's not uncommon for people to attach smilies at the end of bitter, insulting, or whatever kind of posts, to make themselves appear the opposite.

After the Ph.D demise I [blah blah, bragging elided]

It doesn't matter how eventually things ended up. If I felt personally screwed over by somebody, I'd still hold a grudge years later, even if I succeeded otherwise.

Here's some info

I asked you for a reference where Minsky "admitted it a few years ago attempt to kill research into Neural Networks". The quote you gave me (unreferenced, very sloppy for somebody who was a PhD candidate) is from this paper. The whole point of that paper is to completely dispute what you said!

For example:

"The standard version of this history also suggests that certain episodes (such as the publication and circulation of Perceptrons) were marked by a certain guile and personal crusading on the part of the anti-connectionist camp. Connectionism is usually portrayed as a field of research which was unfairly retarded early on, but which, due to the publication of The PDP Volumes and the empirical inadequacies of the alternative, has only comparatively recently begun to bloom. [..] Unfortunately, this version of history is highly selective, partial and in certain respects, down right misleading."

And:

"These facts are perhaps somewhat surprising, given the malevolent role ascribed to Minsky in the standard histories of connectionism. Perhaps, it might be conjectured, the adversarial relationship between the approaches derives from Minsky and Papert's critique of networks in Perceptrons. If this is the case for some though, this adversarial perspective does not seem to be shared by Minsky himself."

I don't see any admission of guilt by Minsky -- quite the opposite. You are full of shit.

How is this different from the high school programming competition I participated in? 30 teams in the university's student union, given up to 3 hours to finish 7 programs (and in the advanced division, the 5th through 7th programs are much harder than the sample problems on the website). If you submit something and get it wrong, they don't tell you why. Even if it gives the right results on your test data. If you submit something and get it right, you get a colored balloon tied to your table - so while you're in the midst of programming and finding a obscure error under time pressure, you can see the other teams getting balloons.

So what's special about this "real time" competition other than the silly names and the nightclub?

Well, as a resident of Louisiana, I can attest that more hurricanes are a bad thing. We were not hit by Katrina, but we had the refugees staying in our houses. New Orleans is still on hell of a mess. On the other hand, we did get hit somewhat by the hurricane everyone forgets, Rita. That really trashed our coastal parishes and poisoned the land with salt (for details see here). A warmer Gulf means the risk of more storms and stronger storms. From where we sit, we really do not give a proverbial 'rats arse' about the politics. We just do not want hurricanes. If ANYTHING can be done to lower the temperature of the sea and thereby reduce the risk, I am for it. The politicos like to carp on about the causal link not being proved -- this was the line used by tobacco companies for years. Anyone who knows anything about the philosophy of science knows that it is almost possible to prove causation. What matters is strong correlation. This we seem to have, although I am sure whilst Haliburton runs the Whitehouse, nobody will pay any attention. Sorry, I needed to vent on this...

Well, as a resident of Louisiana, I can attest that more hurricanes are a bad thing. We were not hit by Katrina, but we had the refugees staying in our houses. New Orleans is still on hell of a mess. On the other hand, we did get hit somewhat by the hurricane everyone forgets, Rita. That really trashed our coastal parishes and poisoned the land with salt (for details see here). A warmer Gulf means the risk of more storms and stronger storms. From where we sit, we really do not give a proverbial 'rats arse' about the politics. We just do not want hurricanes. If ANYTHING can be done to lower the temperature of the sea and thereby reduce the risk, I am for it. The politicos like to carp on about the causal link not being proved -- this was the line used by tobacco companies for years. Anyone who knows anything about the philosophy of science knows that it is almost possible to prove causation. What matters is strong correlation. This we seem to have, although I am sure whilst Haliburton runs the Whitehouse, nobody will pay any attention. Sorry, I needed to vent on this...

Make one of your own. Share with your friend. C'mon, folks, the time is now to be juvenile!

How about this?

I took an interest in Diebold's software, particularly GEMS, a while ago. I took the opportunity to have a play with it and found some quite scarey results. I wrote these results up and posted them on a webpage that includes photos. See http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~isb9112/election/ The short version is that it is incredibly easy to switch votes from one candidate to another. Rest assured, this is not just some wierdo crank thing, I am a real professor. I have even had a paper based on this work accepted at refereed academic conference which took place at UC Berkeley. Problems such as those illustrated are almost certainly the reason why Diebold doesn't want to release its code, other technical difficulties notwithstanding.

I have run into a similar kind of set of problems, as I run an on-line philosophy journal (see http://ejap.louisiana.edu). The solution I found was to convert the documents down into RTF format as an intemediate step. There are a number of shareware RTF-to-HTML converters available. Unfortunatly, I cannot find the name of the program I usually use at the moment, or a link for it, but googling for "RTF to HTML" shareware produces quite a few likely candidates. This system worksjust fine for me. What I like best about the program I have is that it puts the HTML codes in in French! If you look at the source code for the most recent edition of my journal, you can see the system in action.

where this vote took place. We've been subject to waiting for Cox and Bellsouth to get off their a$$ and offer us something other than sub-par services. If not for anything else, we'll have a little more competition... and the consumer always wins with more competition.
Lafayette, LA has been gradually moving toward being a more tech focused city. With this development, hopefully we'll see some businesses spring up or be attracted to the area. I'm a CS student at UL (http://louisiana.edu/) located in Lafayette, and would love to be able to find a decent job after I graduate without having to move.

Always get your software from the official distributors:

http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/linuxreloaded/

Do it from unknown third parties, and you might be very surprised to get some highly unexpected video file instead (*wink-wink, nudge-nudge*).

I was just playing devil's advocate, but here would be an interesting read, perhaps...

http://ejap.louisiana.edu/EJAP/1995.spring/callico tt.1995.spring.htmlA

I saw this stuff yesterday. It looked amusing, but with all the stuff about murders, the CIA and the like, it looked like a tin foil hat number. Who knows. However, the is a real issue that hasn't got much attention. This concerns how easy it is to swap vote counts on certain tabulator machines, whilst leaving no trace at all in the logs. The technique is illustrated and discussed at http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~isb9112/election/. THIS is much more of a concern.

Try getting stuck into e.g. this for a start.

Matt...