I haven't worked in university labs but I have worked in labs affiliated with them. I suspect there's no real difference.
You're probably going to have to put up with safety training which usually is a joke that drains a couple hours of your life. Then if you're lucky you'll get a computer which IT might take its sweet time to set up for you. But in the mean time I highly recommend you go around and introduce yourself to the people there. They are the ones that will be teaching you the most and can be very helpful, just try not to be too shy. Get acquainted with the people, equipment and where the best places to eat near there are located.
Actually you will see a tax. I'm pretty sure the Swiss. gov. charges 35% tax on all interest earned in Switzerland banks to foreigner. But they can recover 30%/35% they pay if they claim it and basically give up their identity.
Just to preface this; I'm a 3ed year undergrad student in physics on track to get a PhD in high energy physics. That being said, I spoke with my professor about this, he explained to me that the formation of world swallowing black holes is so small is negligible. He explained to me (if I remember correctly) that high energy cosmic rays have been bombarding the Earth for billions of years, at much higher energies than the LHC could ever produce. If these world-ending things were to form they would have already, long before humans were around and we wouldn't be here to study these fascinating phenomenon.
cahoots? I think you're mistaken. He wasn't in cahoots with anyone. This whole thing got blown WAY out of proportion because the media tried to crucify (pardon the expression) Obama. What about John McCain and Hagee? I think you need to watch Wright's speech in its entirety before you pass judgement, I think you should see the whole picture first. And in any case, who cares? You're feeding into the propaganda machine. And FYI, the Clintons had invited Rev. Wright to the White House in '98..
They aren't banned in MA, the state police sent the ma cease and desist letter, but I know, here in Boston, kids are still getting sued and I believe that they filed a complaint in court indicating the the state police told them to stop. But as far as I know the RIAA told them to fuck off, because I believe MediaSentry is still up to their old tricks here.
The point was to see what you would like in terms of privacy, fair use etc. Not to scrap our current Constitution, or restrict people with more laws. Something like a counter measure to draconian laws like the DMCA. I know state law has to follow federal law, and there is a huge apathetic feeling in the country and Congress, but it's got to start somewhere right?
Yes, liberties exist apart from law, I agree. But our Bill of Rights in the US Constitution guarantees them. Do you think people in North Korea or Saudi Arabia are guaranteed them? No. And I agree, people have to protect themselves. But, for example, records of client information of ISPs and their clients wired or wireless communications should be protected, just like phone records or stamped mail. I see like less government. But less government != people/government automatically knowing/accepting their rights.
you made your point on how it's not gonna happen, but how's it gonna make it worse? The way I see it if you protect people's rights, at least they have something to point to as a reference when they blow a politician's BS out of the water on the internet. Yes it's already happening with things such as Wikileaks, but look what happened to them, they were (or their domain) shut down for a time because some people with money didn't like what they were saying. If you had a bill of digital rights as I proposed, yes these things will still happen, but the right of the people to put bullshit in the spot light will be protected. Kind of like a shield law for journalists, just this protects everyone (with offences being deformation and things of that nature).
Have they studied the faces of enough terrorists to gather enough data to know how a terrorists face muscles move? I really doubt it. This is like that movie Equilibrium with Christian Bale, where they train to spot "sense offenders", people with faces that don't go along with the stoic masses, who had illegal emotions. This is just more government expansion and a waste of tax dollars.
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I sympathize, I really do, but the fact is you can't bring down usenet because you don't like what's on it. You claim it enables people to rip karaoke songs and what not, but it doesn't force them. It's like saying the government should shut down the internet for have lesbian porn on it because it enables children to look at it. Tried and failed. You can't sue a set of protocols, especially when they work in a decentralizing manner like usenet does. You could sue p2p programs with relative ease because there was a company headquarters and what not, but not this. Fact of the matter is suing isn't going to help, the sharing technologies are only getting better and aren't going away. People need to adapt. Sorry but it's true.
Meaningful discussions like the ones here on slashdot are a good thing. Too bad public discourse on the subject or similar subjects is almost non-existent. It would be good for everyone involved, law enforcement, common people and techies alike. Misunderstandings like this would be less frequent.
actually, this is nothing new. A system like this has been around for sometime; FACS. It stands for Facial Action Coding System. It classifies all the facial expressions and muscle movements in the face and the combinations of them, which in turn tell you the emotion of a person being viewed. Granted what the TSA is going does seem Orwellian and should be scrutinized but it is only new to the federal gov. not academia.
I mean it's sort of a preview. We've already seen things such as COPA trying to be implemented. And in any case, times are changing, the younger generations are going to get more and more tech savvy and things such as the v-chip will soon be obsolete. Using media as a babysitter won't be able to work anymore when the function of a babysitter; to watch the children; will be the one exposing the children to the world.
...about these arguments, is that when the gov. says "if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide", it assumes the desire for privacy implies wrong doing.
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I haven't worked in university labs but I have worked in labs affiliated with them. I suspect there's no real difference. You're probably going to have to put up with safety training which usually is a joke that drains a couple hours of your life. Then if you're lucky you'll get a computer which IT might take its sweet time to set up for you. But in the mean time I highly recommend you go around and introduce yourself to the people there. They are the ones that will be teaching you the most and can be very helpful, just try not to be too shy. Get acquainted with the people, equipment and where the best places to eat near there are located.
Actually you will see a tax. I'm pretty sure the Swiss. gov. charges 35% tax on all interest earned in Switzerland banks to foreigner. But they can recover 30%/35% they pay if they claim it and basically give up their identity.
Just to preface this; I'm a 3ed year undergrad student in physics on track to get a PhD in high energy physics. That being said, I spoke with my professor about this, he explained to me that the formation of world swallowing black holes is so small is negligible. He explained to me (if I remember correctly) that high energy cosmic rays have been bombarding the Earth for billions of years, at much higher energies than the LHC could ever produce. If these world-ending things were to form they would have already, long before humans were around and we wouldn't be here to study these fascinating phenomenon.
wow, how did you get up so highly? You should have been -1 Troll. Have you forgotten abortion clinic shootings and bombings too?
cahoots? I think you're mistaken. He wasn't in cahoots with anyone. This whole thing got blown WAY out of proportion because the media tried to crucify (pardon the expression) Obama. What about John McCain and Hagee? I think you need to watch Wright's speech in its entirety before you pass judgement, I think you should see the whole picture first. And in any case, who cares? You're feeding into the propaganda machine. And FYI, the Clintons had invited Rev. Wright to the White House in '98..
They aren't banned in MA, the state police sent the ma cease and desist letter, but I know, here in Boston, kids are still getting sued and I believe that they filed a complaint in court indicating the the state police told them to stop. But as far as I know the RIAA told them to fuck off, because I believe MediaSentry is still up to their old tricks here.
The point was to see what you would like in terms of privacy, fair use etc. Not to scrap our current Constitution, or restrict people with more laws. Something like a counter measure to draconian laws like the DMCA. I know state law has to follow federal law, and there is a huge apathetic feeling in the country and Congress, but it's got to start somewhere right?
Yes, liberties exist apart from law, I agree. But our Bill of Rights in the US Constitution guarantees them. Do you think people in North Korea or Saudi Arabia are guaranteed them? No. And I agree, people have to protect themselves. But, for example, records of client information of ISPs and their clients wired or wireless communications should be protected, just like phone records or stamped mail. I see like less government. But less government != people/government automatically knowing/accepting their rights.
you made your point on how it's not gonna happen, but how's it gonna make it worse? The way I see it if you protect people's rights, at least they have something to point to as a reference when they blow a politician's BS out of the water on the internet. Yes it's already happening with things such as Wikileaks, but look what happened to them, they were (or their domain) shut down for a time because some people with money didn't like what they were saying. If you had a bill of digital rights as I proposed, yes these things will still happen, but the right of the people to put bullshit in the spot light will be protected. Kind of like a shield law for journalists, just this protects everyone (with offences being deformation and things of that nature).
...is with the messed up tag: "onelaptopperblackchild"? Am I the only one who thinks that's slightly wrong?
Have they studied the faces of enough terrorists to gather enough data to know how a terrorists face muscles move? I really doubt it. This is like that movie Equilibrium with Christian Bale, where they train to spot "sense offenders", people with faces that don't go along with the stoic masses, who had illegal emotions. This is just more government expansion and a waste of tax dollars.
I sympathize, I really do, but the fact is you can't bring down usenet because you don't like what's on it. You claim it enables people to rip karaoke songs and what not, but it doesn't force them. It's like saying the government should shut down the internet for have lesbian porn on it because it enables children to look at it. Tried and failed. You can't sue a set of protocols, especially when they work in a decentralizing manner like usenet does. You could sue p2p programs with relative ease because there was a company headquarters and what not, but not this. Fact of the matter is suing isn't going to help, the sharing technologies are only getting better and aren't going away. People need to adapt. Sorry but it's true.
MS is probably going to try to get student info to do more effective market research.
Meaningful discussions like the ones here on slashdot are a good thing. Too bad public discourse on the subject or similar subjects is almost non-existent. It would be good for everyone involved, law enforcement, common people and techies alike. Misunderstandings like this would be less frequent.
I think that might have been a subtle reference to Einstein, who was as a patent clerk while writing his papers.
actually, this is nothing new. A system like this has been around for sometime; FACS. It stands for Facial Action Coding System. It classifies all the facial expressions and muscle movements in the face and the combinations of them, which in turn tell you the emotion of a person being viewed. Granted what the TSA is going does seem Orwellian and should be scrutinized but it is only new to the federal gov. not academia.
I mean it's sort of a preview. We've already seen things such as COPA trying to be implemented. And in any case, times are changing, the younger generations are going to get more and more tech savvy and things such as the v-chip will soon be obsolete. Using media as a babysitter won't be able to work anymore when the function of a babysitter; to watch the children; will be the one exposing the children to the world.
yes but, in the long run, anything done "for the children", with far reaching powers like this is going to get abused.
...about these arguments, is that when the gov. says "if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide", it assumes the desire for privacy implies wrong doing.