Part of the problem is the fact that the US classifies anything that even looks like it might be sensitive. While there are some arguments that this might be prudent, the problem is that everyone involved with those projects has to have a clearance. I rember a report from the Bradly Manning media circus that there were multiple millions of people in the US with a security clearance. And that is part of what is being discussed in the BBC article you linked to. You can try and compartmentalize, but once compartments are not nearly as secure as the airgapped ouside fence. Ironically, a more secure approach is to classify fewer projects, and as a result have signficantly fewer people with access to the real secrets.
North Korea has detonated several Nuclear Devices recently. While in general the education system is poor, there is a privileged elite that does get good education. So while I have to wait and see, I'm not going to be terribly surprised if the trail leads to NK. But I won't be surprised if it leads to China either.
But who owns the copyrights to the quotes? That is the gist of geist's article. The article in the national post has a quote from an article in the globe and mail. Is it legal for the national post to collect a copyright fee for text for which they do not own the copyright?
Maybe they did fix the issue, but its difficult to take away the compromised list once someone else has it. Or were you expecting them to track down the virus senders and delete the lists from those servers?
Maybe notify members of the list that the list has been compromised and they might be getting virus loaded emails?
The move to open concept happened when the IRS changed the rules for deductions of renovations (i.e. from a short period of time to a very long period of time). But some companies are still willing to go the distance. Before I moved back to academia, I spent 5 1/2 years in the private sector at a company that "got it". The research team had individual offices that we could shut the doors to block out distraction. The development team were two to an office because we were running a hybrid process of team programming. But they could still close their doors to block out distraction. The only people that ended up in an open area were the summer interns because we couldn't justify a year round office for 4 months of seasonal work. It was amazing how productive we could be. In one project that I managed, we did a migration of 200,000 lines of COBOL to Java in about 3 months (2 months planning 1 month execution, total of 4 developers and 1 reasearcher). It amazes me that the people who run these companies are willing to take the hit in productivity that cube farms generate. The smaller city we were in was considerably cheaper for office space than the big cities, but still...
Most of the injuries in Russia were from flying glass because of the explosion. For the larger more dangerous asteroids, a longer detection is possible. For the smaller ones like the recent one in Russia, 12 hours warning to get everyone to stay away form glass might be reasonable.
Depends on the area. In some areas like astronomy, page charges are normal and the funding bodies allow budget lines. Other areas page charges are not normal and funding agencies question budget lines for page charges.
The only reason these publishers have survived is because academics want their research published in the most prestigious (read 'expensive') journal they can find.
Not most expensive, most referenced. Your career as an academic is largely based on how many people reference your work. Your ability to recruit grad students, attract research funding (to pay those students) depends on how many papers you publish and how many people cite your work. Some funding agencies are a bit more lenient allowing the referees to assess the paper quality directly, but others have strict rankings of publishing venues and how much a paper in each venu is to be evaluated as. Until you break that cycle and allow the grant referees to evaluate the research directly, the publishing target will be in venues that get you the most hits.
I know this is slashdot, and people don't want to read the article, the company that she got a job with is not mentioned in the article. She is just profiled as one of the students using the reputation cleanup service provided by the University. This is in fact a University pushed story since it is college application time, to advertise one of the fringe benefits of the University. The company mentioned was actually created by three of the University Alumni.
The cynic in me sometimes wonders if this is something they do on purpose. Publish new outrageous terms of service and then wait for the internet to explode. Wait a few hours more and then come on with a ready appology. A lot of people have enough invested in a particular site that they won't leave right away, and with an appropriate "apology" are molified. And a lot of exposure is thus gained. But given that other competitors are ready to swoop in, the other part of me dismisses it.
Sorry if this is totally off, but aren't patents supposed to prevent the manufacturing and distribution and/or selling of the patented items, and have nothing to do with the usage? That means this statement is at least misleading, if not down right lying: “When the government grants you the right to a patent, they grant you the right to exclude others from using it.”
To clarify: If I use SSL on my website, I don't think this patent applies to me. I didn't make SSL, and I'm not providing SSL for download. Go sue the OpenSSL guys, or sue Debian, Red Hat and Canonical for distributing your patented thingy, and hope the EFF doesn't chime in.
The big guys who settled are making and selling products that ship SSL within. Except Exxon Mobil - I have no idea what they could sell me with SSL in it, and appear to have settled just because the inconvenience of a lawsuit wasn't worth it. If he isn't asking for crazy amounts, the big guys may not even twitch and just pay up. As in "hey, I see your patent, it doesn't look like it could hold in court, but... you're asking for peanuts, so here you go, please go away". Because in that case the lawyers would cost a lot more just to throw the case out of court, and this guy's company doesn't have any assets that can be reposessed to cover the costs.
Conclusion: he's not going to sue anyone small, and he'll stop when all the big cows have been milked - unless he meets the wrong kind of cow before then.
Actually patent infringment include use. Patent holders can choose to sue users as well. Its true that users are not often sued, but in situations where the patented invention is used privately without distribution, the user can be sued.
He said Asia/canada not EU. It is true that taxes are higher than in the US. But the overal cost is lower. Before coming back to Academia, I was part of a startup. With the health care support we have in Canada, as well as other benefits, the lower loaded cost of an employee about makes up for the taxes. He also said undertainty. A higher tax rate isn't what kills it, as Warren Buffet has pointed out time and again. Its the endless bickering and inability to settle on a solution that kills it. If the GOP in the house is willing to meet Obama part way, then the situation will improve.
While I understand the black on brown racisim exists, why would there be any black on brown racist tweets about Obama being re-elected? He isn't Latino. They were looking for racist comments about Obama. Just curious.
Want to feel old? Read the Beloit Collge Mindset List. Most of the incomming freshman for the class of 2016 were born in 1994. The last episode of MacGyver was originally broadcast in 1992. Not sure how long reruns went (or if there are still some on one of the cable channels), but it is a safe bet that most of them have never seen an episode of MacGyver. Gems on the list: never have seen an airplane ticket, a significant percentage of them will enter college already displaying some hearing loss, theTwilight Zone involves vampires, not Rod Serling.
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Part of the problem is the fact that the US classifies anything that even looks like it might be sensitive. While there are some arguments that this might be prudent, the problem is that everyone involved with those projects has to have a clearance. I rember a report from the Bradly Manning media circus that there were multiple millions of people in the US with a security clearance. And that is part of what is being discussed in the BBC article you linked to. You can try and compartmentalize, but once compartments are not nearly as secure as the airgapped ouside fence. Ironically, a more secure approach is to classify fewer projects, and as a result have signficantly fewer people with access to the real secrets.
Cool. Never thought of that one... Or rather was never told that one by the prof or upper years.
That why you use sequence numbers in 73-80. Been there, done that. But only did it once.
North Korea has detonated several Nuclear Devices recently. While in general the education system is poor, there is a privileged elite that does get good education. So while I have to wait and see, I'm not going to be terribly surprised if the trail leads to NK. But I won't be surprised if it leads to China either.
And they sent back a photo of handcuffs... Old joke..
But who owns the copyrights to the quotes? That is the gist of geist's article. The article in the national post has a quote from an article in the globe and mail. Is it legal for the national post to collect a copyright fee for text for which they do not own the copyright?
Maybe they did fix the issue, but its difficult to take away the compromised list once someone else has it. Or were you expecting them to track down the virus senders and delete the lists from those servers?
Maybe notify members of the list that the list has been compromised and they might be getting virus loaded emails?
The move to open concept happened when the IRS changed the rules for deductions of renovations (i.e. from a short period of time to a very long period of time). But some companies are still willing to go the distance. Before I moved back to academia, I spent 5 1/2 years in the private sector at a company that "got it". The research team had individual offices that we could shut the doors to block out distraction. The development team were two to an office because we were running a hybrid process of team programming. But they could still close their doors to block out distraction. The only people that ended up in an open area were the summer interns because we couldn't justify a year round office for 4 months of seasonal work. It was amazing how productive we could be. In one project that I managed, we did a migration of 200,000 lines of COBOL to Java in about 3 months (2 months planning 1 month execution, total of 4 developers and 1 reasearcher). It amazes me that the people who run these companies are willing to take the hit in productivity that cube farms generate. The smaller city we were in was considerably cheaper for office space than the big cities, but still...
Wasn't my title. My title was password protection. It was changed by slashdot editors.
and instead should be legally and scientifically classified as some sort of vermin.
Which of course are food for pythons!!
Even the guy with all the bees is not immune from corruption. He could be bulking up his own honey with corn syrup or other subsitutes as well.
Most of the injuries in Russia were from flying glass because of the explosion. For the larger more dangerous asteroids, a longer detection is possible. For the smaller ones like the recent one in Russia, 12 hours warning to get everyone to stay away form glass might be reasonable.
.. but they are my zeros and ones.
Depends on the area. In some areas like astronomy, page charges are normal and the funding bodies allow budget lines. Other areas page charges are not normal and funding agencies question budget lines for page charges.
Hopefully, this is how it works in Canada as well.
I'm not sure where you got Canada from. The article is about Prince George County in Virginia.
There may be prior art, but that link is not it. GPRS did not come into existence until 2000 (from the same link you gave)
The only reason these publishers have survived is because academics want their research published in the most prestigious (read 'expensive') journal they can find.
Not most expensive, most referenced. Your career as an academic is largely based on how many people reference your work. Your ability to recruit grad students, attract research funding (to pay those students) depends on how many papers you publish and how many people cite your work. Some funding agencies are a bit more lenient allowing the referees to assess the paper quality directly, but others have strict rankings of publishing venues and how much a paper in each venu is to be evaluated as. Until you break that cycle and allow the grant referees to evaluate the research directly, the publishing target will be in venues that get you the most hits.
I know this is slashdot, and people don't want to read the article, the company that she got a job with is not mentioned in the article. She is just profiled as one of the students using the reputation cleanup service provided by the University. This is in fact a University pushed story since it is college application time, to advertise one of the fringe benefits of the University. The company mentioned was actually created by three of the University Alumni.
The cynic in me sometimes wonders if this is something they do on purpose. Publish new outrageous terms of service and then wait for the internet to explode. Wait a few hours more and then come on with a ready appology. A lot of people have enough invested in a particular site that they won't leave right away, and with an appropriate "apology" are molified. And a lot of exposure is thus gained. But given that other competitors are ready to swoop in, the other part of me dismisses it.
YOu try to solve mazes by putting blocks in the righ place to let the ball roll down. My nephew has played that game since he was 3.
Sorry if this is totally off, but aren't patents supposed to prevent the manufacturing and distribution and/or selling of the patented items, and have nothing to do with the usage? That means this statement is at least misleading, if not down right lying: “When the government grants you the right to a patent, they grant you the right to exclude others from using it.” To clarify: If I use SSL on my website, I don't think this patent applies to me. I didn't make SSL, and I'm not providing SSL for download. Go sue the OpenSSL guys, or sue Debian, Red Hat and Canonical for distributing your patented thingy, and hope the EFF doesn't chime in. The big guys who settled are making and selling products that ship SSL within. Except Exxon Mobil - I have no idea what they could sell me with SSL in it, and appear to have settled just because the inconvenience of a lawsuit wasn't worth it. If he isn't asking for crazy amounts, the big guys may not even twitch and just pay up. As in "hey, I see your patent, it doesn't look like it could hold in court, but... you're asking for peanuts, so here you go, please go away". Because in that case the lawyers would cost a lot more just to throw the case out of court, and this guy's company doesn't have any assets that can be reposessed to cover the costs. Conclusion: he's not going to sue anyone small, and he'll stop when all the big cows have been milked - unless he meets the wrong kind of cow before then.
Actually patent infringment include use. Patent holders can choose to sue users as well. Its true that users are not often sued, but in situations where the patented invention is used privately without distribution, the user can be sued.
He said Asia/canada not EU. It is true that taxes are higher than in the US. But the overal cost is lower. Before coming back to Academia, I was part of a startup. With the health care support we have in Canada, as well as other benefits, the lower loaded cost of an employee about makes up for the taxes. He also said undertainty. A higher tax rate isn't what kills it, as Warren Buffet has pointed out time and again. Its the endless bickering and inability to settle on a solution that kills it. If the GOP in the house is willing to meet Obama part way, then the situation will improve.
While I understand the black on brown racisim exists, why would there be any black on brown racist tweets about Obama being re-elected? He isn't Latino. They were looking for racist comments about Obama. Just curious.
Did you miss the part about this being in Canada? We don't have primaries, and the next federal election is several years off.
Want to feel old? Read the Beloit Collge Mindset List. Most of the incomming freshman for the class of 2016 were born in 1994. The last episode of MacGyver was originally broadcast in 1992. Not sure how long reruns went (or if there are still some on one of the cable channels), but it is a safe bet that most of them have never seen an episode of MacGyver. Gems on the list: never have seen an airplane ticket, a significant percentage of them will enter college already displaying some hearing loss, theTwilight Zone involves vampires, not Rod Serling.