So, after failing to provide enough evidence, a jury decides the company cannot prove their claims. In the press release, the company claims to still move forward? Sheesh....
In other related questions, what's going on with the Markus Zahn guy? Everything I can pull up about him and his invention comes to an abrupt stop in the 2 months following shortly after that story.
Isn't it just a matter of time until it's back out into the air. I'm not sure about the body's absorption of CO2 in the digestion tract but isn't most of it, uh, belched right back out one way or another?
Use them with other studies. The girlfriend uses them a TON in looking for transgenics and gene identification. Their eyes, among other things, make great models for spotting mutations, etc.
Umm....These weren't excuses. They were questions. I think what you want is this "These contest are biased against Americans anyway. The other countries can simply out compete us cause they cheat..waaaaaah!" I'm not buying any excuses like that, I assure you. America by and far lost, plain and simple.
Every year, as GSOC rolls around, Slashdot throws a few articles up. One of these is always about a week before the deadline, highlighting the main projects for the summer and reminding students to participate.
Why would slashdot not bring up this or any other contest before the start?
I believe another poster also pointed out the cash prize is $5k. While nothing to sneeze at here in the US, that maybe an entire year's salary to some of the participants. Lot more motivation for them to compete and even less for the top talent here.
I'm not saying the US has some divine right to win and no where in there did I say the US should. I'm simply questioning whether there was any effort to drum up any American programmers. It appears not, so the US got what the US deserved. A piss poor showing and a slashdot article questioning why the US did so poorly.
Thanks. She's still getting over things to this day.
So far, something to that degree? None. I do know a guy who used to be pretty vulgar but has cut back on the "case o' natural light a night!" once he started dating someone. Back in college, there was insults thrown back and forth between us and rival frat. Nothing ever really happened from it.
I'm sure that your third explanation is more the reason why. Maybe I just didn't hear about it.
FAS is sad for sure. I'm just trying to find a study that compares the lives of individuals with FAS to that of, say, those born from a mother with a meth addiction.
Thanks! I liked the first link, but the other two left some to be desired....
The chart linked to only shows it's attribution to "Other Federal sources" and tells you to get a cut of the multi-billion marijuana business.
The 25% statistic leads to a page that quotes the National Institute on Alcohol Recovery, where I can only find mainly underage drinking statistics. Nothing especially about the 25% part.
I'm not trying to be asinine, but did you find anything else linking to the study or organization who carried it out?
On another diverging non related question: Folks can make their own alcohol a heckuva lot easier than it is to grow and process the various illegal drugs(to my knowledge anyways...) You can make your own good(read non-moonshine)cider with apple juice, dextrose and the proper strain of yeast. It isn't challenging by any means to make. Folks will consume it just as the sun will rise.
Compare that to, say, crack or crystal meth which requires a high degree of chemical manipulation to make and could not just be created by the average joe. That activity is going to be a lot easier to identify and come down on than "moonshine".
The gov't simply couldn't regulate the ban on alcohol and apparently is doing a crappy job on all drugs.
2, with one of them raped by an addict. The other had his house broken into.
I've talked to a friend at Med school who works at the public hospital and man..Nothing's sadder than seeing a poor woman having a crack baby and the grandma saying she gets more money for the kid being f'ed up.
Everyone's got a tragedy. Just seems like the one from hard drugs continues to come up worse to me.
Throw out some statistics about violence from alcohol if you're going to compare it to hard drugs.
Do more folks get mugged for money for alcohol or for drugs? I'm not sure of that.
I'm not saying alcohol is a magic happy thing that doesn't hurt anyone. But are you saying alcohol is the same as crack or crystal meth in terms of societal effects?
Or better, don't even distribute it in the FREAKIN' JDK OR JRE.
You want to release it? Sell it as a stand alone patch or jar. Don't sneak it it into the jdk or jre and start making us ask "Is Java evil now?" Well, unless it comes to memory allocation....
I foresee Joe getting something like this in the future:
TO: JOE FROM: YAHOO HR RE: Use of personal device for Yahoo business
Joe,
It has come to our attention that you have used your personal cellphone for Yahoo business. At this time, in Employee conduct and code booklet, section 5.a.1-No employee of Yahoo may use a personal communication device and conduct business on the behalf of Yahoo. All communication and conduct must be done on Yahoo approved devices.
Need we remind you that all communication on the behalf of Yahoo needs to occur with either prior legal approval for non-approved devices or only on preapproved devices.
You are docked 1(one) day personal leave and will need to attend a employee conduct class to continue to receive full benefits.
Thank you,
Yahoo HR
As you can see, Yahoo, not Joe, must disguise themselves. If that means buying up a temporary phone # that get's thrown away after every call, so be it. A business asking it's employees to use personal cellphones for company business just sounds like a bad idea, when you're the size of Yahoo anyways.
The problem is that systems like a phone number can still be subverted by the phony person.
Say I know the phone number that Yahoo will call me from, or heck, even the first 6 digits(area + 3).
I post a VOIP number that redirects all numbers BUT that of Yahoo to the person I'm annoying.
When Yahoo calls, I pretend to be that person and play it off like it's legit.
Yahoo thinks I'm really the person answering of all the calls. The person I'm attacking still receives 99.999% of the phone calls. The person can, at best, call in and say "Wait, that # is not mine but it's calling me!!!" but whenever yahoo calls, you confirm, that it is indeed the person under attack's #.
Unless Yahoo can disguise THEMSELVES to not be distinguishable from any other caller.
I had just planned a nice weekend before reading that Dead Rising achievement.
Seriously though, this is just legitimizing some of the more well known tricks we used to show off to our friends, plus allowing developers to sneak a joke or two our way.
Who else doesn't remember being able to shoot a grenade or mine in golden eye to kill your opponent?
Well, the article doesn't outline it and I don't feel like searching.
I guess since Intel may have paid computer companies to simply ignore using AMD components or avoid launching AMD-chip lines.
The thing that rubs me against this though is this...
Following an anti-trust investigation of Intel launched six years ago, the Commission sent a list of complaints to the company in July 2007, accusing it of offering "substantial" rebates to computer makers that mostly used its chips.
So....Intel cuts prices to makers who use their chips, reinforcing the belief they should keep business with Intel.
I'm all for Intel getting a comeuppance...but this badly?
Well, I can't remember the last time I got a call from the bank, telling me, "Yeah...your checking account was robbed and we lost all of your money. Sorry." No money comes in or out that I haven't spent. So....it's safe compared to walking around with all of my money in a bag.
On an unrelated note, you appear to be using the same firefox software I use.
You should have said this...
Man, you must be joking about a bank being safe. Where have you been living recently?
The problem is when you crack open your daily life and look at computing services you can't crack open and look at.
Every minor, hidden process is suddenly game. Go to a grocery store and use your credit card? You are using the credit card company's servers to take care of the work of moving your money from account to account. Your data. Their software. Cut up your cards. Heck, stow your money in a mattress. You don't want the bank to be liable for doing account computing when you can't get to the software.
I mean, I'd like to see the underlying process and know how their software works, up-to-the-code-level, but realistically? I don't have the time or interest. I'll trust the bank to keep my money safe and they get to enjoy the benefits of that trust.
Not alone anyways. The best thing we can hope for is intervention from Russia or a cut off of China's raw materials.
I highly doubt that that such a thing would happen, so it comes down to either the US allowing it or acting against China, from a US prospective. To China, it's them simply reclaiming their land. Considering that if China were allowed to repatriate Taiwan through any other means than diplomatically, it would set a dangerous precedent.
I agree with most of your points. The only problem is that once you hit a flashpoint that the GP mentioned, there is little to no recourse. You've got to a pull a juggernaut like China off the small nation of Taiwan.
If you can achieve the same ends of a nuclear volley, minus the negative aspects of blanketing a nation(s) with fallout, you'd be a genius.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry! It's not Markus Zahn, it's Thane Heins.
That, said I still cannot find any further news on it, however.
So, after failing to provide enough evidence, a jury decides the company cannot prove their claims. In the press release, the company claims to still move forward? Sheesh....
In other related questions, what's going on with the Markus Zahn guy? Everything I can pull up about him and his invention comes to an abrupt stop in the 2 months following shortly after that story.
Isn't it just a matter of time until it's back out into the air. I'm not sure about the body's absorption of CO2 in the digestion tract but isn't most of it, uh, belched right back out one way or another?
Use them with other studies. The girlfriend uses them a TON in looking for transgenics and gene identification. Their eyes, among other things, make great models for spotting mutations, etc.
Umm....These weren't excuses. They were questions. I think what you want is this "These contest are biased against Americans anyway. The other countries can simply out compete us cause they cheat..waaaaaah!" I'm not buying any excuses like that, I assure you. America by and far lost, plain and simple.
Every year, as GSOC rolls around, Slashdot throws a few articles up. One of these is always about a week before the deadline, highlighting the main projects for the summer and reminding students to participate.
Why would slashdot not bring up this or any other contest before the start?
I believe another poster also pointed out the cash prize is $5k. While nothing to sneeze at here in the US, that maybe an entire year's salary to some of the participants. Lot more motivation for them to compete and even less for the top talent here.
I'm not saying the US has some divine right to win and no where in there did I say the US should. I'm simply questioning whether there was any effort to drum up any American programmers. It appears not, so the US got what the US deserved. A piss poor showing and a slashdot article questioning why the US did so poorly.
Better yet, was the opening of said contest even announced on US top tech sites?
Second, did US employers, who hire our best programmers, tell them to give it a go with time off?
Yes, but where is that attributed to? I checked the site they reference and found nothing.
"87% of all statistics are made up on the spot...."
Not denying that alcohol plays a role in a significant amount of ER visits, just hoping for something more substantial.
Thanks. She's still getting over things to this day.
So far, something to that degree? None. I do know a guy who used to be pretty vulgar but has cut back on the "case o' natural light a night!" once he started dating someone. Back in college, there was insults thrown back and forth between us and rival frat. Nothing ever really happened from it.
I'm sure that your third explanation is more the reason why. Maybe I just didn't hear about it.
FAS is sad for sure. I'm just trying to find a study that compares the lives of individuals with FAS to that of, say, those born from a mother with a meth addiction.
Thanks! I liked the first link, but the other two left some to be desired....
The chart linked to only shows it's attribution to "Other Federal sources" and tells you to get a cut of the multi-billion marijuana business.
The 25% statistic leads to a page that quotes the National Institute on Alcohol Recovery, where I can only find mainly underage drinking statistics. Nothing especially about the 25% part.
I'm not trying to be asinine, but did you find anything else linking to the study or organization who carried it out?
On another diverging non related question: Folks can make their own alcohol a heckuva lot easier than it is to grow and process the various illegal drugs(to my knowledge anyways...) You can make your own good(read non-moonshine)cider with apple juice, dextrose and the proper strain of yeast. It isn't challenging by any means to make. Folks will consume it just as the sun will rise.
Compare that to, say, crack or crystal meth which requires a high degree of chemical manipulation to make and could not just be created by the average joe. That activity is going to be a lot easier to identify and come down on than "moonshine".
The gov't simply couldn't regulate the ban on alcohol and apparently is doing a crappy job on all drugs.
2, with one of them raped by an addict. The other had his house broken into.
I've talked to a friend at Med school who works at the public hospital and man..Nothing's sadder than seeing a poor woman having a crack baby and the grandma saying she gets more money for the kid being f'ed up.
Everyone's got a tragedy. Just seems like the one from hard drugs continues to come up worse to me.
Throw out some statistics about violence from alcohol if you're going to compare it to hard drugs.
Do more folks get mugged for money for alcohol or for drugs? I'm not sure of that.
I'm not saying alcohol is a magic happy thing that doesn't hurt anyone. But are you saying alcohol is the same as crack or crystal meth in terms of societal effects?
Or better, don't even distribute it in the FREAKIN' JDK OR JRE.
You want to release it? Sell it as a stand alone patch or jar. Don't sneak it it into the jdk or jre and start making us ask "Is Java evil now?" Well, unless it comes to memory allocation....
I think when they find out it was you who posted her # in the first place, it won't matter the means in which she got dialed.
I believe there's also a way to spoof the CID on demand(I know my voip provider allows such things...) making it a tad more difficult to block the #.
Honestly, I can't imagine anyone going to this amount of trouble unless they've really got it in for a person.
I foresee Joe getting something like this in the future:
TO: JOE
FROM: YAHOO HR
RE: Use of personal device for Yahoo business
Joe,
It has come to our attention that you have used your personal cellphone for Yahoo business. At this time, in Employee conduct and code booklet, section 5.a.1-No employee of Yahoo may use a personal communication device and conduct business on the behalf of Yahoo. All communication and conduct must be done on Yahoo approved devices.
Need we remind you that all communication on the behalf of Yahoo needs to occur with either prior legal approval for non-approved devices or only on preapproved devices.
You are docked 1(one) day personal leave and will need to attend a employee conduct class to continue to receive full benefits.
Thank you,
Yahoo HR
As you can see, Yahoo, not Joe, must disguise themselves. If that means buying up a temporary phone # that get's thrown away after every call, so be it. A business asking it's employees to use personal cellphones for company business just sounds like a bad idea, when you're the size of Yahoo anyways.
The problem is that systems like a phone number can still be subverted by the phony person.
Say I know the phone number that Yahoo will call me from, or heck, even the first 6 digits(area + 3).
I post a VOIP number that redirects all numbers BUT that of Yahoo to the person I'm annoying.
When Yahoo calls, I pretend to be that person and play it off like it's legit.
Yahoo thinks I'm really the person answering of all the calls. The person I'm attacking still receives 99.999% of the phone calls. The person can, at best, call in and say "Wait, that # is not mine but it's calling me!!!" but whenever yahoo calls, you confirm, that it is indeed the person under attack's #.
Unless Yahoo can disguise THEMSELVES to not be distinguishable from any other caller.
You're right. We need to use a MIRV ICBM. We'd nuke multiple sites from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I had just planned a nice weekend before reading that Dead Rising achievement.
Seriously though, this is just legitimizing some of the more well known tricks we used to show off to our friends, plus allowing developers to sneak a joke or two our way.
Who else doesn't remember being able to shoot a grenade or mine in golden eye to kill your opponent?
Well, the article doesn't outline it and I don't feel like searching.
I guess since Intel may have paid computer companies to simply ignore using AMD components or avoid launching AMD-chip lines.
The thing that rubs me against this though is this...
So....Intel cuts prices to makers who use their chips, reinforcing the belief they should keep business with Intel.
I'm all for Intel getting a comeuppance ...but this badly?
Well, I can't remember the last time I got a call from the bank, telling me, "Yeah...your checking account was robbed and we lost all of your money. Sorry." No money comes in or out that I haven't spent. So....it's safe compared to walking around with all of my money in a bag.
On an unrelated note, you appear to be using the same firefox software I use.
You should have said this...
Man, you must be joking about a bank being safe. Where have you been living recently?
The problem is when you crack open your daily life and look at computing services you can't crack open and look at.
I really need to proofread, but instead, I rely on Firefox's little red lines. Maybe Stallman has something right....
The problem is when you crack open your daily life and look at computing services you can't crack open and look at.
Every minor, hidden process is suddenly game. Go to a grocery store and use your credit card? You are using the credit card company's servers to take care of the work of moving your money from account to account. Your data. Their software. Cut up your cards. Heck, stow your money in a mattress. You don't want the bank to be liable for doing account computing when you can't get to the software.
I mean, I'd like to see the underlying process and know how their software works, up-to-the-code-level, but realistically? I don't have the time or interest. I'll trust the bank to keep my money safe and they get to enjoy the benefits of that trust.
Heh. Reminds me of this one time I saw an ad from them pushing a 1GB hard drive when they meant 1TB.
Not alone anyways. The best thing we can hope for is intervention from Russia or a cut off of China's raw materials.
I highly doubt that that such a thing would happen, so it comes down to either the US allowing it or acting against China, from a US prospective. To China, it's them simply reclaiming their land. Considering that if China were allowed to repatriate Taiwan through any other means than diplomatically, it would set a dangerous precedent.
I agree with most of your points. The only problem is that once you hit a flashpoint that the GP mentioned, there is little to no recourse. You've got to a pull a juggernaut like China off the small nation of Taiwan.
If you can achieve the same ends of a nuclear volley, minus the negative aspects of blanketing a nation(s) with fallout, you'd be a genius.
You know, I've always wondered what it would take to get into Ham radios. Any links or info for someone looking at picking it up?