I think Munich could sell this experience and maybe make a little cash on the side. The city is large enough to have covered every contingency that any city might need so a city needing to upgrade from XP, Vista or Win 7 could just adopt Munich's distro along with all the formatted paperwork templates they've created. The general Linux terms of service may prevent Munich from charging for the software but they could sell the labor to other cities and maybe the document templates. Every city probably has a dog catcher report form and it may be different from town to town, but it wouldn't take much training to use Munich's new form. Munich has obviously developed training manuals and presentations which might be a profit center. This would save other towns the expense of a 10 year changeover.
take a look at the article in Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN), Nov. 25, 2013, page 7, about a relatively small molecule that interacts with a mutant protein associated with cancer. A very nice x-ray structure is shown with the inhibiting molecule covalently bonded to the protein. The NIH is putting up $10 to further this kind of work. On page 9 of the same issue is another interesting article regarding experimental cancer work and the effect of bacteria in the gut on chemotherapy effectiveness.
C&EN should be available in most university libraries.
Pauling's chemistry involved valence bond theory (VB) but today most modern chemistry involves molecular orbital theory (MO). An up to date course in organic chem will have a great deal of MO theory, for instance in an understanding of the bonding and chemistry of aromatic compounds and such things as sigmatropic reactions with the use of Woodward-Hoffman rules. Today's chemists need to know both MO and VB theories and where each is appropriately used. These bonding theories are an important basis for all chemistry and give direction to understanding what and why chemistry occurs. Organic chemistry courses that just involve memorization of named reactions is a thing of the past and shouldn't be tolerated.
Hopefully the doctor doing the exam has a lot of experience and in the exam notes a lot of facts about the patient such as age, weight, exercise level, diet, personality type, type of occupation, good and bad cholesterol levels, etc., etc. Each input datum must be weighted appropriately in drawing a conclusions as to treatment. It may be that bad cholesterol level and diet may be very important but personality type and exercise level, though useful, deserve much less weighting. The doc may not use Bayesian statistics explicitly, but from the input data and experience, the correct conclusion can still be drawn without writing a mathematical equation. Previous experience tells the doc that patients with the same characteristic data needed a particular treatment and when they didn't get it the doc knows that, too.
One thing computers can do is drug design. Input the structure of the molecule, gene, protein, etc., that you need to cause some useful interaction to occur and computers can come up with the structure of a new drugs to cause the result you want. Of course, the basic structure and chemistry (physical and chemical properties) of the substrate substance must be well understood. Then the fun begins for organic synthetic chemists to make the best choice for synthesis. And of course, the new drug must be tested.
If I remember correctly, Steve Gibson in the latest Security Now net cast (http://twit.tv/show/security-now/428) answered this question. Someone asked if a person got hold of a file of known content, maybe a Windows.dll or something, that was encrypted could the encryption key be found by some reverse engineering process and thus decrypt other stuff that used the same key. The answer is this could not be done with modern encryption methods (pgp) and I think he gave a reason why. Check out the Q&A part of the net cast if you're interested.
One could probably justify any of the answers to these questions as the "correct" answer. If the purpose of the test is to know if a kid can read, ask something about what was read. If the question is to justify an answer, have the kid write a short justification, thus testing reading ability, writing ability and some reasoning skill. The latter situation, where the student writes 50 words about a choice, will not be gradable as a multiple choice answer and requires someone to read the test and make a judgement about the quality of the answers. In that situation the score on the test will be highly subjective and based on the examiner's biases thus probably not accurate nor precise. Otherwise, questions like this are just plain nonsense.
What happens when the Indians in India need to reboot all the computers as well as the hardware system controllers after a major power outage caused by an ice storm or hurricane? Remember, this is a power company. The executives or janitors left in the power company don't know what a Big Red Switch (BRS) is. It's also possible the Indians don't know either, but they're in India. Travel costs weren't in the contract, so they won't send someone thousands of miles to fix the problem. But the power company has increased it's profits.
At first I expected to see advertisements installed by permanently writing them over one's pictures posted on Instagram. I'm still not sure that that's not what FB intends to do. FB's recent suggestions regarding the sale of your FB information and pics posted on FB to advertisers without compensation would be just the beginning and when they start selling your pics posted on Instagram to advertisers without compensation it may mean the end of that product. This may not be what they say now, but if the ads don't bring enough money, well, we'll see how they respond in future Terms of Service changes.
In the case of the surveylance industry, the argument can be made that cameras make the community safer, by helping law enforcement to identify and rapidly locate dangerous criminals, and that disrupting this system places the community at greater risk.
Surveillance may only prevent crime if the potential criminal knows where the cameras are. However, should the criminal just ignore their presence the cameras don't prevent crime. One video I saw sometime ago showed a hit man get out of a luxury car, follow and fatally shoot a pedestrian then, IIRC, get out of the camera's view and disappeared. The hit man was dressed in a way that made him unidentifiable. He knew or expected that cameras would be present. I think this occurred in NYCity. It's likely the hit man will never be found unless an enormous amount of police leg work finds those who hired him.
It looks like NSA gets all your data before it ever gets to Google or Google sends it to you. These guys have equipment in the backbone providers' facilities to split and intercept the fiber or coax signals on their way to their respective destinations.This way the NSA sucks up all the data in the world on its way to wherever it's going.
It looks like by your discussion every computer on the Internet might be considered a server. When one launches any web browser the first thing it likely does is send out a request for the download of a home page. The act of sending an http://..../ string into the Internet void is acting as the origin of data, thus some might consider this as behaving as a server. ISPs need to tighten up what it means to be operating a "server" on a residential account. This might get pretty complicated as much of what residential customers do involves serving data to the net. Those TOS documents might become incredibly long and would not be complete. One discussion I read believes that something as common as "hosting" a Slingbox is hosting a server.
I'm not sure about firemen's keys, but firemen have other ways of getting through a locked door: battering rams, axes, chain saws, diamond disks and saws. Much like criminals - if they want to get into a locked house bad enough they will get in.
Interesting about M-code. However, considering all the news lately regarding hacking by potential adversaries, I'm not sure any encryption or coded communications are as secure as their originators think. Right now the Chinese have the fastest supercomputer in the world. I wonder how long it would take to find the "passwords", or whatever, is necessary to overcome such obfuscations. Basically, if it's in the air, just like the internet, one can't assume it's secure.
If the answer is yes then the students' device may be a useful countermeasure. Other munitions and military airplanes may also be guided by GPS. I would guess there's some kind of encryption in military applications, but not sure. Imagine a shooting war using GPS guided military things and the opposition had one of these countermeasure devices and sent the munitions back to where they came from. So much for high tech guidance of military equipment.
Small town "Doctors" seem to be incompetent. My mother-in-law lives in a small midwestern town. She' 92 years old. Went to the local quack because she had pain in her hip. He prescribed Celebrex. About a month later Celebrex no longer worked. She called him and he said double the dose. That didn't work either. What would you do if you're a doctor and a 90-something women comes in complaining about a hip pain? Everybody I've asked said, "take an X-ray." Finally she went to the emergency room in the nearest big city and that's just what they did and found she had a broken femur next to the hop socket. Replacement surgery solved the problem.
This reminds me of the black humor joke: What do they call the person who graduates last in their medical school class? Answer: Doctor.
Good question: why is the quack in my mother-in-law's tiny town practicing medicine there? Likely couldn't get a job anywhere else because he's incompetent.
Depending on year, New Mexico car license plates show "New Mexico USA." I guess the New Mexico powers-that-be want folks to know the state is part of the USA.
Depending on where you live your well water may be providing more NaF in your drinking water than that added by water companies. True in the area where I live. A problem is now showing up because mothers are using bottled water to make baby formula and we're seeing major tooth decay problems in teeth of those children. Win for dentists!
Are you a terrorist when driving if you come to a stop just beyond the white line at a stop sign or traffic signal? If we allow water board employees to decide who's a terrorist think what traffic cops can do to you for the most minor infraction.
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I think Munich could sell this experience and maybe make a little cash on the side. The city is large enough to have covered every contingency that any city might need so a city needing to upgrade from XP, Vista or Win 7 could just adopt Munich's distro along with all the formatted paperwork templates they've created. The general Linux terms of service may prevent Munich from charging for the software but they could sell the labor to other cities and maybe the document templates. Every city probably has a dog catcher report form and it may be different from town to town, but it wouldn't take much training to use Munich's new form. Munich has obviously developed training manuals and presentations which might be a profit center. This would save other towns the expense of a 10 year changeover.
The current "state of the art" is 450 mm wafer disks.
Ooops! $10 MILLION.
take a look at the article in Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN), Nov. 25, 2013, page 7, about a relatively small molecule that interacts with a mutant protein associated with cancer. A very nice x-ray structure is shown with the inhibiting molecule covalently bonded to the protein. The NIH is putting up $10 to further this kind of work. On page 9 of the same issue is another interesting article regarding experimental cancer work and the effect of bacteria in the gut on chemotherapy effectiveness. C&EN should be available in most university libraries.
Pauling's chemistry involved valence bond theory (VB) but today most modern chemistry involves molecular orbital theory (MO). An up to date course in organic chem will have a great deal of MO theory, for instance in an understanding of the bonding and chemistry of aromatic compounds and such things as sigmatropic reactions with the use of Woodward-Hoffman rules. Today's chemists need to know both MO and VB theories and where each is appropriately used. These bonding theories are an important basis for all chemistry and give direction to understanding what and why chemistry occurs. Organic chemistry courses that just involve memorization of named reactions is a thing of the past and shouldn't be tolerated.
Hopefully the doctor doing the exam has a lot of experience and in the exam notes a lot of facts about the patient such as age, weight, exercise level, diet, personality type, type of occupation, good and bad cholesterol levels, etc., etc. Each input datum must be weighted appropriately in drawing a conclusions as to treatment. It may be that bad cholesterol level and diet may be very important but personality type and exercise level, though useful, deserve much less weighting. The doc may not use Bayesian statistics explicitly, but from the input data and experience, the correct conclusion can still be drawn without writing a mathematical equation. Previous experience tells the doc that patients with the same characteristic data needed a particular treatment and when they didn't get it the doc knows that, too.
One thing computers can do is drug design. Input the structure of the molecule, gene, protein, etc., that you need to cause some useful interaction to occur and computers can come up with the structure of a new drugs to cause the result you want. Of course, the basic structure and chemistry (physical and chemical properties) of the substrate substance must be well understood. Then the fun begins for organic synthetic chemists to make the best choice for synthesis. And of course, the new drug must be tested.
You can get a bumper sticker: Honk if You Passed PChem.
If I remember correctly, Steve Gibson in the latest Security Now net cast (http://twit.tv/show/security-now/428) answered this question. Someone asked if a person got hold of a file of known content, maybe a Windows .dll or something, that was encrypted could the encryption key be found by some reverse engineering process and thus decrypt other stuff that used the same key. The answer is this could not be done with modern encryption methods (pgp) and I think he gave a reason why. Check out the Q&A part of the net cast if you're interested.
One could probably justify any of the answers to these questions as the "correct" answer. If the purpose of the test is to know if a kid can read, ask something about what was read. If the question is to justify an answer, have the kid write a short justification, thus testing reading ability, writing ability and some reasoning skill. The latter situation, where the student writes 50 words about a choice, will not be gradable as a multiple choice answer and requires someone to read the test and make a judgement about the quality of the answers. In that situation the score on the test will be highly subjective and based on the examiner's biases thus probably not accurate nor precise. Otherwise, questions like this are just plain nonsense.
Bah, this is just a sneaky way to start lay offs. They have 80 000 without a desk, what should they do?
It could be good for office furniture manufacturers or bad for the 80,000 that are going to be looking for new, exciting employment.
What happens when the Indians in India need to reboot all the computers as well as the hardware system controllers after a major power outage caused by an ice storm or hurricane? Remember, this is a power company. The executives or janitors left in the power company don't know what a Big Red Switch (BRS) is. It's also possible the Indians don't know either, but they're in India. Travel costs weren't in the contract, so they won't send someone thousands of miles to fix the problem. But the power company has increased it's profits.
At first I expected to see advertisements installed by permanently writing them over one's pictures posted on Instagram. I'm still not sure that that's not what FB intends to do. FB's recent suggestions regarding the sale of your FB information and pics posted on FB to advertisers without compensation would be just the beginning and when they start selling your pics posted on Instagram to advertisers without compensation it may mean the end of that product. This may not be what they say now, but if the ads don't bring enough money, well, we'll see how they respond in future Terms of Service changes.
In the case of the surveylance industry, the argument can be made that cameras make the community safer, by helping law enforcement to identify and rapidly locate dangerous criminals, and that disrupting this system places the community at greater risk.
Surveillance may only prevent crime if the potential criminal knows where the cameras are. However, should the criminal just ignore their presence the cameras don't prevent crime. One video I saw sometime ago showed a hit man get out of a luxury car, follow and fatally shoot a pedestrian then, IIRC, get out of the camera's view and disappeared. The hit man was dressed in a way that made him unidentifiable. He knew or expected that cameras would be present. I think this occurred in NYCity. It's likely the hit man will never be found unless an enormous amount of police leg work finds those who hired him.
It looks like NSA gets all your data before it ever gets to Google or Google sends it to you. These guys have equipment in the backbone providers' facilities to split and intercept the fiber or coax signals on their way to their respective destinations.This way the NSA sucks up all the data in the world on its way to wherever it's going.
Because.
I wanna run a server at home.
I don't wanna pay $4/month more.
I want to run some non-standard OS.
I want to test my custom hardware.
I want to connect my server to my lights.
What do you care why?
Item two might be: I wanna pay more than $4 per month for electricity, cooling, hardware repair
It looks like by your discussion every computer on the Internet might be considered a server. When one launches any web browser the first thing it likely does is send out a request for the download of a home page. The act of sending an http://..../ string into the Internet void is acting as the origin of data, thus some might consider this as behaving as a server. ISPs need to tighten up what it means to be operating a "server" on a residential account. This might get pretty complicated as much of what residential customers do involves serving data to the net. Those TOS documents might become incredibly long and would not be complete. One discussion I read believes that something as common as "hosting" a Slingbox is hosting a server.
I'm not sure about firemen's keys, but firemen have other ways of getting through a locked door: battering rams, axes, chain saws, diamond disks and saws. Much like criminals - if they want to get into a locked house bad enough they will get in.
Interesting about M-code. However, considering all the news lately regarding hacking by potential adversaries, I'm not sure any encryption or coded communications are as secure as their originators think. Right now the Chinese have the fastest supercomputer in the world. I wonder how long it would take to find the "passwords", or whatever, is necessary to overcome such obfuscations. Basically, if it's in the air, just like the internet, one can't assume it's secure.
If the answer is yes then the students' device may be a useful countermeasure. Other munitions and military airplanes may also be guided by GPS. I would guess there's some kind of encryption in military applications, but not sure. Imagine a shooting war using GPS guided military things and the opposition had one of these countermeasure devices and sent the munitions back to where they came from. So much for high tech guidance of military equipment.
Small town "Doctors" seem to be incompetent. My mother-in-law lives in a small midwestern town. She' 92 years old. Went to the local quack because she had pain in her hip. He prescribed Celebrex. About a month later Celebrex no longer worked. She called him and he said double the dose. That didn't work either. What would you do if you're a doctor and a 90-something women comes in complaining about a hip pain? Everybody I've asked said, "take an X-ray." Finally she went to the emergency room in the nearest big city and that's just what they did and found she had a broken femur next to the hop socket. Replacement surgery solved the problem. This reminds me of the black humor joke: What do they call the person who graduates last in their medical school class? Answer: Doctor. Good question: why is the quack in my mother-in-law's tiny town practicing medicine there? Likely couldn't get a job anywhere else because he's incompetent.
Just as good: find a way to put iOS on them.
Depending on year, New Mexico car license plates show "New Mexico USA." I guess the New Mexico powers-that-be want folks to know the state is part of the USA.
Depending on where you live your well water may be providing more NaF in your drinking water than that added by water companies. True in the area where I live. A problem is now showing up because mothers are using bottled water to make baby formula and we're seeing major tooth decay problems in teeth of those children. Win for dentists!
Are you a terrorist when driving if you come to a stop just beyond the white line at a stop sign or traffic signal? If we allow water board employees to decide who's a terrorist think what traffic cops can do to you for the most minor infraction.