There is a difference between taking an address down and reading your mail.
Exactly. The outside of a piece of mail is considered public. There is no expectation of privacy. That's, after all, why there is an envelope in the first place! Stuff inside the envelope is considered private, and protected. The outside? No.
Personally, I've long suspected that the Post Office was doing something like this because they've displayed an ability to trace a given piece of mail when requested, despite not having purchased a tracking service, albeit with substantial latency. How can they tell that a bit of mail from my Aunt Mabel did or didn't come through my local post office in the last two weeks without making some kind of record of every piece?
Actually, we hit pretty close to exactly proportional representation: the gender breakdown of our speakers is nearly identical to the gender breakdown of our general attendance (excluding invited speakers). But we have to work super hard to get even that because, as described above, everyone else is also inviting the few qualified female speakers. It would be impossible to get 50/50, as there just aren't enough qualified female researchers in our field.
I run an international conference in a relatively small field, that is, one with only a few thousand researchers all told. We do pretty well at gender balance in our invited speakers, but it is MUCH HARDER to invite qualified female speakers than male ones.
Why?
Because there are fewer of them, so they are in higher demand, since all of the conference organizers want them to speak. Our conference typically has about a 90% acceptance rate for our invitations, for male speakers. For female speakers, it's closer to 50%.
There's a very serious question for privacy/security-minded folks that need to figure out --- What was the encryption used on this hard drive that the police were able to crack it?
Many times I'd like to see my password in clear text (like when entering new passwords, to make sure they're correct). It would be convenient to have some way to temporarily turn off asterisk masking.
I run a conference with contributed one-page abstracts. I allow contributions either in (preferrably) LaTeX, or (grudgingly) DOC formats. Despite providing templates for both systems, contributors still find many ways to intentionally or unintentionally screw things up.
You can only say so many times "DO NOT CHANGE PAGE WIDTH OR FONT SETTINGS," or "DO NOT CHANGE INTERLINE SPACING." The problem with both systems for that sort of application is that the programs do now allow locking-down of formatting. You can tell the users not to screw things but, but they will. Invariably.
If anyone has a good solution to this problem, I'm very very interested to hear it!
Not only awe-inspiringly large, but filled with optically clear water. Those NASA folks can be really impressive.
Since astronauts are well-known to be more adept and quick-thinking than most of us, I'm wondering why your family friend wasn't able to use her breath to move faster to the edge of the structure than airflow from the A/C would afford. I'm thinking that a series of well-aimed inhales and exhales would do the trick. No?
The important thing to consider about all this, though, is that the for-profit journals still get more readers than the open access ones.
For-profit and open-access are orthogonal characteristics, not opposite ends on a spectrum. You can find plenty of for-profit journals that are open access. Open access is a whitewash term to make the author-pays business model sound all warm and fuzzy.
The purpose of the electoral college was to ensure that whoever won would win by a massive landslide so that there would be no impetus to question the results.
A government only stands when the people follow its leadership. When the US was new, they needed to be sure that elections were definitive to hold the nascent union together.
Today, although the country has established a certain modicum of stability, we still need the amplification of small differences, despite those who whine about the popular vote, for more-or-less the same reason. A US president cannot rule if the other branches of government do not recognize his authority, and nothing gives the appearance of a weak office than victory by a few tenths of a percent. From my personal experience, Nixon won in 1968 with a 5% margin in the popular vote; think of it this way, our of a group of 40 people, 21 voted for him, and 19 against. That's pretty damned close to even. But the electoral college amplified that small difference into a massive landslide because he carried EVERY SINGLE STATE (except Massachusetts and DC). We can debate whether having put him in office was a good idea in the end or not, but the result of the election was a clear mandate. When you have a huge, modern, diverse country, that's what you need to get everyone going in the same direction.
Only last year there was a deadly shootout in an unlicensed hotel at the end of my street. If you are a US citizen that is probably a daily occurrence for you, but here in Amsterdam it is kind of a big deal.
This -- this exactly -- is why all of the Hollywood producers and script writers should be banished to some remote, cold place and left to die a slow, rotting, and painful death.
To the parent poster, the US has nowhere near the level of gun violence you suggest. It's also a huge, vast place that's more accurately compared to all of Europe put together, rather than just one city in a smallish country. Use your powers of reasoning to figure out why integrating over so many people might make it look like there's daily gun violence on every street corner.
One of the authors of the pigeon study was an invited speaker last summer at a conference I organize. I have not yet read the paper, but the presentation was arguably the best recieved of the 23 oral presentations, generating vigorous, positive discussion that spilled into after-hours interaction. Very, very good stuff.
While it may also be true that pigeons also navigate by polarized light, the evidence presented for a magnetic sense is overwhelming.
When it is cold outside, mucus membranes (in the nose, most importantly for this discussion) go into overdrive. We get sniffly noses, whether we have an active nasal infection or not, and sniffle more often than in the summer. Much more often.
So, if someone who has a sniffly nose happens to wipe said nose with their hand and then immediately touches something else, say a doorknob, or a light switch, or a keyboard, or the cup of coffee the barrista just handed you, or a hand in a handshake, then, there's a higher probability that you'll do the reverse, and touch your nose, eyes, or mouth, closing the transmission path. This transmission path happens at a certain rate during the summer, but it happens more often during the winter, just because our noses tend to be sniffly from the cold.
Even ignoring variability in viral reaction to relative humidity, I've always thought that the variation in transmission probability due to outdoor temperature was enough to drive the seasonal variation in colds and the flu.
Yes... except the spring constant of the crank has been changed. What I can't figure out by inspection of the photographs alone is if the change would be sufficent to explain the perceived differences. As you pedal around that nice, big L shape is going to distort slightly, even though it appears to be designed not to, storing some energy by folding up a wee bit during some parts of the cycle, and releasing it by unfolding during others (or vice versa). Or heck, maybe it opens up, rather than folds in. At first blush, it probably isn't a big enough effect to explain things, but an L-shaped crank is going to tend to be more flexible than a straight-arm crank.
Same thing happened with Made in Japan: decades ago, you were better off saving your pennies for good old American stuff because the Japanese equivalents were horrible. Nissan's first imports to the US (when they were known as Datsun) were a joke. So were Honda's. But now, the Japanese imported goods are top-notch and deserving of hard-earned respect. Korean goods followed the same path. Taiwanese, to a certain extent, although they don't seem to have fully realized their potential, yet. Chinese goods are just starting to get better as they, as a country, learn manufacturing. Given that they have vast resources to throw at the problem, I fully expect Made in China to, within a decade or so, mean something is quality goods, and we'll be looking to Made in Viet Nam, Made in Thailand, Made in North Korea, or Made in Kazahkstan with derision.
Off the top of my head -- heat of accretion, radioactive decay, partial nuclear ignition delaying cooling, tidal heating from it's previous orbit before it was ejected, . . .
But that's all speculation rather than applicable knowledge.
Come on, Apple. This claim is bullshit. Stand up for the developers who make your App Store and ecosystem a success.
Apple, a very common word, is trademarked. As is Lion. And Aperture. And Motion. And Safari. Etc.
Microsoft plays this game, too -- with Office. And Windows. And Surface. etc.
Is there a strong standing for Memory not to be allowed the same protections that AAPL enjoys on it's corporate branding? Not enforcing the request would be hypocritical at the very least.
Besides, as noted in the post, this particular journal charges a fee for publishing.
This journal sounds like it is about equivalent to "self published" books, where you pay the publisher to print your book.
Journals are a business. The money to run that business has to come from some place, and it's a zero-sum game between authors and readers. The short-sighted open access proponents (not all are short-sighted, but many are) think that the words "open access" mean "free of cost to anyone involved". Not true. Open access journals shift the burden of funding their operation from the readership (such as with the traditional subscription model, regrettably known derisively as closed access) to the authors. Instead of being free to publish (which means that *anyone* can publish), open access means only those able to afford publication can get their results disseminated.
Open access means the author pays. That's it. Nothing more.
In particular, it says nothing else about the quality of the journal. While the quality of the journal in question here may be highly suspect, and while a lowest-tier journal might not be able to survive in other than with a a business model that includes payment from authors, being open access is orthogonal to quality. Even the highest tier journals have options for the authors to pay for open access, but, repating for emphasis, the authors must pay for it.
On top of that, by leaving Excel you lose things like robust cut and paste and undo history for user inputs. Plus the user interface makes it easy to overwrite your saved results with a scratch calclation.
Don't forget things like reliabilily, (defacto) portability, professionally written documentation, a massive 3rd party training literature, and an even more massive 3rd party help literature on the web. And, for many readers here, the ability to use a work-alike open source tool instead.
Developing an in-house solution for a spreadsheet is, bluntly, an idiotic idea. MS hatred or not, Excel is a well-developed tool that just works. If the company is looking to save money, then deploy LibreOffice instead.
The renewal is from radioactive decay in rocks, and the helium nuclei get caught in the small crystal grains in every rock. Extraction requires heating the crushed rock above 90C at which point the helium gets thermally liberated (there's an entire field of geology called thermochronology based on this fact; a good friend of mine has published a handful of Nature papers on the subject). Renewal is extremly slow, so that once we have mined the radiogenic helium, the replacement rate is essentially zero. It can be man-made in nuclear reactors (fusion and fission), but there are practicality issues with both approaches.
KDE is, however, programmable (and has been since at least the early Fedora Core releases) to go to an absolute desktop via keyboard shortcut. I have the Fn keys bound to bring me immediately to virtual desktop n (ie, hitting F1 in any application brings me to desktop 1, F2 to desktop 2, etc., all the way through F12). I never liked the next- or prev-desktop keys. Relative desktop selection is a bad model when there's an absolute map of desktops presented in the pager.
Losing the passport wouldn't be such a calamity if governments were up to date.
I don't know if you're a US citizen and lost a passport abroad, but you can get a new one in a small number of hours (for a fee) if you are near a US Embassy. That's been true for at least decades, since the time I lost mine in Athens, back in 1985.
So, I'm not sure about the "being up to date" requirement you're positing.
The great thing about paper passports is that they work *everywhere*, even in the backwater crossing from Poland to the Czech Republic that I transited a few years back where they most definitely did not have more information infrastructure than a telephone. Hell, the nearby airport wasn't much more than a bus station. But my paper passport worked just fine.
Slashdot Mirror
There is a difference between taking an address down and reading your mail.
Exactly. The outside of a piece of mail is considered public. There is no expectation of privacy. That's, after all, why there is an envelope in the first place! Stuff inside the envelope is considered private, and protected. The outside? No.
Personally, I've long suspected that the Post Office was doing something like this because they've displayed an ability to trace a given piece of mail when requested, despite not having purchased a tracking service, albeit with substantial latency. How can they tell that a bit of mail from my Aunt Mabel did or didn't come through my local post office in the last two weeks without making some kind of record of every piece?
Actually, we hit pretty close to exactly proportional representation: the gender breakdown of our speakers is nearly identical to the gender breakdown of our general attendance (excluding invited speakers). But we have to work super hard to get even that because, as described above, everyone else is also inviting the few qualified female speakers. It would be impossible to get 50/50, as there just aren't enough qualified female researchers in our field.
I run an international conference in a relatively small field, that is, one with only a few thousand researchers all told. We do pretty well at gender balance in our invited speakers, but it is MUCH HARDER to invite qualified female speakers than male ones.
Why?
Because there are fewer of them, so they are in higher demand, since all of the conference organizers want them to speak. Our conference typically has about a 90% acceptance rate for our invitations, for male speakers. For female speakers, it's closer to 50%.
There's a very serious question for privacy/security-minded folks that need to figure out --- What was the encryption used on this hard drive that the police were able to crack it?
Many times I'd like to see my password in clear text (like when entering new passwords, to make sure they're correct). It would be convenient to have some way to temporarily turn off asterisk masking.
Thanks for the translation. TFS was like trying to read a telegraph message.
You would be surprised.
I run a conference with contributed one-page abstracts. I allow contributions either in (preferrably) LaTeX, or (grudgingly) DOC formats. Despite providing templates for both systems, contributors still find many ways to intentionally or unintentionally screw things up.
You can only say so many times "DO NOT CHANGE PAGE WIDTH OR FONT SETTINGS," or "DO NOT CHANGE INTERLINE SPACING." The problem with both systems for that sort of application is that the programs do now allow locking-down of formatting. You can tell the users not to screw things but, but they will. Invariably.
If anyone has a good solution to this problem, I'm very very interested to hear it!
tsa cancer/molestation
One is your health, the other is merely your dignity. No question there, I opt out and try to rise above the groping every time.
Not only awe-inspiringly large, but filled with optically clear water. Those NASA folks can be really impressive.
Since astronauts are well-known to be more adept and quick-thinking than most of us, I'm wondering why your family friend wasn't able to use her breath to move faster to the edge of the structure than airflow from the A/C would afford. I'm thinking that a series of well-aimed inhales and exhales would do the trick. No?
The important thing to consider about all this, though, is that the for-profit journals still get more readers than the open access ones.
For-profit and open-access are orthogonal characteristics, not opposite ends on a spectrum. You can find plenty of for-profit journals that are open access. Open access is a whitewash term to make the author-pays business model sound all warm and fuzzy.
The purpose of the electoral college was to ensure that whoever won would win by a massive landslide so that there would be no impetus to question the results.
A government only stands when the people follow its leadership. When the US was new, they needed to be sure that elections were definitive to hold the nascent union together.
Today, although the country has established a certain modicum of stability, we still need the amplification of small differences, despite those who whine about the popular vote, for more-or-less the same reason. A US president cannot rule if the other branches of government do not recognize his authority, and nothing gives the appearance of a weak office than victory by a few tenths of a percent. From my personal experience, Nixon won in 1968 with a 5% margin in the popular vote; think of it this way, our of a group of 40 people, 21 voted for him, and 19 against. That's pretty damned close to even. But the electoral college amplified that small difference into a massive landslide because he carried EVERY SINGLE STATE (except Massachusetts and DC). We can debate whether having put him in office was a good idea in the end or not, but the result of the election was a clear mandate. When you have a huge, modern, diverse country, that's what you need to get everyone going in the same direction.
Only last year there was a deadly shootout in an unlicensed hotel at the end of my street. If you are a US citizen that is probably a daily occurrence for you, but here in Amsterdam it is kind of a big deal.
This -- this exactly -- is why all of the Hollywood producers and script writers should be banished to some remote, cold place and left to die a slow, rotting, and painful death.
To the parent poster, the US has nowhere near the level of gun violence you suggest. It's also a huge, vast place that's more accurately compared to all of Europe put together, rather than just one city in a smallish country. Use your powers of reasoning to figure out why integrating over so many people might make it look like there's daily gun violence on every street corner.
One of the authors of the pigeon study was an invited speaker last summer at a conference I organize. I have not yet read the paper, but the presentation was arguably the best recieved of the 23 oral presentations, generating vigorous, positive discussion that spilled into after-hours interaction. Very, very good stuff.
While it may also be true that pigeons also navigate by polarized light, the evidence presented for a magnetic sense is overwhelming.
When it is cold outside, mucus membranes (in the nose, most importantly for this discussion) go into overdrive. We get sniffly noses, whether we have an active nasal infection or not, and sniffle more often than in the summer. Much more often.
So, if someone who has a sniffly nose happens to wipe said nose with their hand and then immediately touches something else, say a doorknob, or a light switch, or a keyboard, or the cup of coffee the barrista just handed you, or a hand in a handshake, then, there's a higher probability that you'll do the reverse, and touch your nose, eyes, or mouth, closing the transmission path. This transmission path happens at a certain rate during the summer, but it happens more often during the winter, just because our noses tend to be sniffly from the cold.
Even ignoring variability in viral reaction to relative humidity, I've always thought that the variation in transmission probability due to outdoor temperature was enough to drive the seasonal variation in colds and the flu.
Yes ... except the spring constant of the crank has been changed. What I can't figure out by inspection of the photographs alone is if the change would be sufficent to explain the perceived differences. As you pedal around that nice, big L shape is going to distort slightly, even though it appears to be designed not to, storing some energy by folding up a wee bit during some parts of the cycle, and releasing it by unfolding during others (or vice versa). Or heck, maybe it opens up, rather than folds in. At first blush, it probably isn't a big enough effect to explain things, but an L-shaped crank is going to tend to be more flexible than a straight-arm crank.
Keinesis contoured keyboards. A little relearning necessary, but much faster in the end. You can even get them with DVORAK layout, I believe.
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/
They sell lots of ergomatic stuff. Look for the keyboards with two wells of keys, one for each hand.
To see the relevent bit of that nice interview, seek to about 30:00.
Same thing happened with Made in Japan: decades ago, you were better off saving your pennies for good old American stuff because the Japanese equivalents were horrible. Nissan's first imports to the US (when they were known as Datsun) were a joke. So were Honda's. But now, the Japanese imported goods are top-notch and deserving of hard-earned respect. Korean goods followed the same path. Taiwanese, to a certain extent, although they don't seem to have fully realized their potential, yet. Chinese goods are just starting to get better as they, as a country, learn manufacturing. Given that they have vast resources to throw at the problem, I fully expect Made in China to, within a decade or so, mean something is quality goods, and we'll be looking to Made in Viet Nam, Made in Thailand, Made in North Korea, or Made in Kazahkstan with derision.
Off the top of my head -- heat of accretion, radioactive decay, partial nuclear ignition delaying cooling, tidal heating from it's previous orbit before it was ejected, . . .
But that's all speculation rather than applicable knowledge.
Come on, Apple. This claim is bullshit. Stand up for the developers who make your App Store and ecosystem a success.
Apple, a very common word, is trademarked.
As is Lion.
And Aperture.
And Motion.
And Safari.
Etc.
Microsoft plays this game, too --
with Office.
And Windows.
And Surface.
etc.
Is there a strong standing for Memory not to be allowed the same protections that AAPL enjoys on it's corporate branding? Not enforcing the request would be hypocritical at the very least.
Besides, as noted in the post, this particular journal charges a fee for publishing.
This journal sounds like it is about equivalent to "self published" books, where you pay the publisher to print your book.
Journals are a business. The money to run that business has to come from some place, and it's a zero-sum game between authors and readers. The short-sighted open access proponents (not all are short-sighted, but many are) think that the words "open access" mean "free of cost to anyone involved". Not true. Open access journals shift the burden of funding their operation from the readership (such as with the traditional subscription model, regrettably known derisively as closed access) to the authors. Instead of being free to publish (which means that *anyone* can publish), open access means only those able to afford publication can get their results disseminated.
Open access means the author pays. That's it. Nothing more.
In particular, it says nothing else about the quality of the journal. While the quality of the journal in question here may be highly suspect, and while a lowest-tier journal might not be able to survive in other than with a a business model that includes payment from authors, being open access is orthogonal to quality. Even the highest tier journals have options for the authors to pay for open access, but, repating for emphasis, the authors must pay for it.
On top of that, by leaving Excel you lose things like robust cut and paste and undo history for user inputs. Plus the user interface makes it easy to overwrite your saved results with a scratch calclation.
Don't forget things like reliabilily, (defacto) portability, professionally written documentation, a massive 3rd party training literature, and an even more massive 3rd party help literature on the web. And, for many readers here, the ability to use a work-alike open source tool instead.
Developing an in-house solution for a spreadsheet is, bluntly, an idiotic idea. MS hatred or not, Excel is a well-developed tool that just works. If the company is looking to save money, then deploy LibreOffice instead.
The renewal is from radioactive decay in rocks, and the helium nuclei get caught in the small crystal grains in every rock. Extraction requires heating the crushed rock above 90C at which point the helium gets thermally liberated (there's an entire field of geology called thermochronology based on this fact; a good friend of mine has published a handful of Nature papers on the subject). Renewal is extremly slow, so that once we have mined the radiogenic helium, the replacement rate is essentially zero. It can be man-made in nuclear reactors (fusion and fission), but there are practicality issues with both approaches.
I share your views almost entirely.
KDE is, however, programmable (and has been since at least the early Fedora Core releases) to go to an absolute desktop via keyboard shortcut. I have the Fn keys bound to bring me immediately to virtual desktop n (ie, hitting F1 in any application brings me to desktop 1, F2 to desktop 2, etc., all the way through F12). I never liked the next- or prev-desktop keys. Relative desktop selection is a bad model when there's an absolute map of desktops presented in the pager.
Losing the passport wouldn't be such a calamity if governments were up to date.
I don't know if you're a US citizen and lost a passport abroad, but you can get a new one in a small number of hours (for a fee) if you are near a US Embassy. That's been true for at least decades, since the time I lost mine in Athens, back in 1985.
So, I'm not sure about the "being up to date" requirement you're positing.
The great thing about paper passports is that they work *everywhere*, even in the backwater crossing from Poland to the Czech Republic that I transited a few years back where they most definitely did not have more information infrastructure than a telephone. Hell, the nearby airport wasn't much more than a bus station. But my paper passport worked just fine.