I've always pondered about yes/no answers in court. I've seen judges demand either a yes or no answer on many occasions, yet to me it seems to conflict with a fundamental principle, at least in the UK justice system.
When you give your oath to the court in the UK it's "I promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".
I remember being taught in history class of all things that it used to simply be "I promise to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth". The whole truth section was added later to prevent people giving answers that whilst true, only paint half the picture due to missing vital information or context.
So I've often wondered in this context how a judge can push for yes/no, as in many circumstances it betrays this fundamental principle in that either answer only tells a partial truth and not a whole truth. Has this principle ever been tested? To me being forced to give a yes/no answer would mean that I was betraying my vow to tell the whole truth as either answer would only be a partial truth in a more complex situation.
This is one of those circumstances where such an answer would in my opinion, violate such a vow, and as much as I want Oracle to lose I do also sympathise with the difficulty of just answering yes/no to that particular question.
You can also not answer the question "Did you stop beating your wife?" with Yes/No. Also, there are plenty of questions where the answer is between Yes and No.
Is that Java security hole that we heard about over the last weeks Mac-specific or cross-platform? Any reason to worry or to have our belief in Java security shattered? Or just a conspiracy of several factors in the Mac environment?
I would like it if one could decide on a per-site basis to play the Flash with Gnash or with Adobe Flash.
Gnash is much faster, plays nicer with the graphic card, and is more secure. I had success using it on several websites.
However it doesn't support many of the newer Flash features, so everyone trying it out will turn away from it.
If there was a "SafeFlash" extension, that would, like HTTPSEverywhere, use Gnash where the website is compatible, a smooth transition away from Adobe Flash (which will be phased out for Linux anyway apparently) would be possible.
The US thinks their jurisdiction is the whole world -- they think copyright, software patents, making laws after something happened rather than before (Common law), screaming out on a marketplace of ideas to determine the best... is a universal thing and awesome. But hey, if you're big, you don't need to care to listen.
Make it a interferometer? Seems obvious, so there must be something wrong with that idea.
Not very useful, since there's not a lot of sky visible both from South Africa and western Australia.
Also, any radio telescope array is already a interferometer. The SKA is the mega-version of a interferometer, or you could say a hybrid of an ATA and VLBI.
Russia: 4650 U.S.: 2468. Number of cities > 1Million people in the world: 302.
You can't possibly need to attack more than 20 cities with nuclear warheads in whatever the scenario. Place this number in 10 locations around the globe, and you're up to 200. That's the number you really need, max. Beyond that, it's just ridiculous.
Exactly. The old shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek (TOS) will intrigue them and make them very interested in humans. When they get close enough to watch Jerry Springer, they're going to either decide our civilization has gone down the tubes, or that we need to be invaded.
At this point, I think occupation by intelligent aliens is probably preferable to ruling ourselves.
Yes, because aliens have the same taste, opinion and morals as you the enlightened human. Xenopsychology is a difficult field with a sample of... zero.
Corruption is not a problem in science. It's when there is a prior interest to the outcome of a study (e.g. paid by a company). Also, every scientist wants his analysis to be a success -- significant and relevant. The problem is choosing the wrong method for an analysis, and/or interpreting the results in a slightly off way. When every but one method tells you that the results are insignificant and that one method is chosen (file drawer effect). If you're any use as a scientist -- got used to reading literature -- you will recognize these cases easily.
Scientists who do dodgy research don't stay long. They can't switch positions to a serious institute. In my opinion, it's not a problem in fundamental research.
Yes, you won't become rich, but potentially you'll have a fulfilled life.
For those not in the know, this already happened many, many years ago:
One of the best-documented accounts of a prehistoric meal comes at the end of Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe (1990), by Alaska zoology professor Dale Guthrie. After successfully unearthing and preserving "Blue Babe," a 36,000-year-old steppe bison found near Fairbanks in 1979, Guthrie's team celebrates by simmering some leftover flesh from Babe's neck "in a pot of stock and vegetables." The author reports that "the meat was well aged but still a little tough, and it gave the stew a strong Pleistocene aroma." Now, I'm all for scientific esprit de corps, and I'm not by nature an incurious sort, but I'll say right now I don't see the appeal. Let's keep it simple: frozen meat from tundra = specimen; frozen meat from freezer = dinner. Study the mammoths and eat the burgers, and anyone who craves that great prehistoric taste can wash 'em down with Tab.
Maybe they left it over 10.000 years ago because it wasn't the best meat?
I don't understand why people who obviously don't believe this repost the opinion of others. We just waste effort recircling the same argument again and again.
Our environment defines our thinking. People will assume positions if they see that it is possible to have it. If we move the whole discussion so that this position is not part of it anymore, it will be harder to write such a statement.
Some examples: (1) Right-extremist hate speech on foreigners and holocaust-denying makes it possible for otherwise average people to attain racist, fanatic and violent attitudes and don't think of themselves as the odd ones out. (2) 9/11 made it possible for people in the West to believe they can be attacked everywhere anytime.
If you want to avoid such extremes, shape the environment of the discussion that they are the odd ones out.
If you want to stick to your statement as ridicule offending Christians who interpret the Bible too literally despite the inconsistencies or intent, I suggest "The Earth is only 6,000 years old! In fact the bible says Jesus rode that mammoth before he saw the donkey."
Pretty interesting: Aside from a free mp3 hosted on a private site it comes with a tutorial for safe browsing recommending (HTTPSEverywhere, Tor) http://www.qnwqdj.gov.cn/tuto.htm .
Would be more effective if it was written in Chinese I guess. And if they had actually hacked more than one site. And if the protest came from inside China rather than outside.
Looks to me like a single, rather unsuccessful script kiddie with political interests rather than the "Anonymous hacking collective".
Why isn't it enough to have the existing laws, and just apply them to electronic media? Legislation in the EU tries to avoid introducing new laws and makes laws medium-neutral. Basically all communication-laws have been reused for jurisdiction on the Internet.
Well, the EU still manages to produce a frightening volume of new laws every year (i.e. measurable in cubic meters).
One challenge has been getting protesters to note key details that will help future historians organize the vast trove of digital materials. That information, called metadata, includes things like the date and time that recordings were made, said Mr. Millman. “We asked them to follow naming conventions” for their audio and video files, he said, “but they didn’t follow that.”
lol. Just lol.
In an age when so many people hold recording equipment in their pockets in the form of smartphones, deciding what material to store in archives might be the biggest challenge, Mr. Besser said. One approach he tried recently was asking protesters to vote on which videos or photos should be preserved, and then archivists make the final decision of what to keep from that smaller sample.
“The old way of doing things doesn’t scale,” he said. “We have to find new ways of doing the selection and doing the metadata."
Aside from being puzzled why did they think it would... haven't they followed the last decade of "Web 2.0", Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, etc.? They oughta ask the guys over at archive.org how to be a librarian in this millenium. Here's my question:
Isn't the metadata about time already stored? Do smartphones add GPS info to the EXIF these days? (I'd like that anyways)
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I've always pondered about yes/no answers in court. I've seen judges demand either a yes or no answer on many occasions, yet to me it seems to conflict with a fundamental principle, at least in the UK justice system.
When you give your oath to the court in the UK it's "I promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".
I remember being taught in history class of all things that it used to simply be "I promise to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth". The whole truth section was added later to prevent people giving answers that whilst true, only paint half the picture due to missing vital information or context.
So I've often wondered in this context how a judge can push for yes/no, as in many circumstances it betrays this fundamental principle in that either answer only tells a partial truth and not a whole truth. Has this principle ever been tested? To me being forced to give a yes/no answer would mean that I was betraying my vow to tell the whole truth as either answer would only be a partial truth in a more complex situation.
This is one of those circumstances where such an answer would in my opinion, violate such a vow, and as much as I want Oracle to lose I do also sympathise with the difficulty of just answering yes/no to that particular question.
You can also not answer the question "Did you stop beating your wife?" with Yes/No. Also, there are plenty of questions where the answer is between Yes and No.
Do you ever watch RT ( http://rt.com/ ) ? [The russian CNN/BBC/Al Jazeera]
Is that Java security hole that we heard about over the last weeks Mac-specific or cross-platform? Any reason to worry or to have our belief in Java security shattered? Or just a conspiracy of several factors in the Mac environment?
Isn't a Trojan that requires no user interaction by definition a Virus?
yeah, granting copyright!
Even if it were copyrightable. If it is made Open Source first, you can't come back later, declare it your property and compare it to Elvish.
I would like it if one could decide on a per-site basis to play the Flash with Gnash or with Adobe Flash.
Gnash is much faster, plays nicer with the graphic card, and is more secure. I had success using it on several websites.
However it doesn't support many of the newer Flash features, so everyone trying it out will turn away from it.
If there was a "SafeFlash" extension, that would, like HTTPSEverywhere, use Gnash where the website is compatible, a smooth transition away from Adobe Flash (which will be phased out for Linux anyway apparently) would be possible.
No I will download their random numbers and then I can use it forever!
The US thinks their jurisdiction is the whole world -- they think copyright, software patents, making laws after something happened rather than before (Common law), screaming out on a marketplace of ideas to determine the best ... is a universal thing and awesome.
But hey, if you're big, you don't need to care to listen.
Make it a interferometer? Seems obvious, so there must be something wrong with that idea.
Not very useful, since there's not a lot of sky visible both from South Africa and western Australia.
Also, any radio telescope array is already a interferometer. The SKA is the mega-version of a interferometer, or you could say a hybrid of an ATA and VLBI.
So, basically, hybrids aren't cost effective enough for people buying primarily on cost
You could also say, oil isn't expensive enough -- the gas prices don't reflect the real cost of oil.
Russia: 4650 U.S.: 2468. Number of cities > 1Million people in the world: 302.
You can't possibly need to attack more than 20 cities with nuclear warheads in whatever the scenario. Place this number in 10 locations around the globe, and you're up to 200. That's the number you really need, max. Beyond that, it's just ridiculous.
Exactly. The old shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek (TOS) will intrigue them and make them very interested in humans. When they get close enough to watch Jerry Springer, they're going to either decide our civilization has gone down the tubes, or that we need to be invaded.
At this point, I think occupation by intelligent aliens is probably preferable to ruling ourselves.
Yes, because aliens have the same taste, opinion and morals as you the enlightened human. Xenopsychology is a difficult field with a sample of ... zero.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to, as a Kickstarter supporter, be paid back more if the specific project made lots of money?
Corruption is not a problem in science. It's when there is a prior interest to the outcome of a study (e.g. paid by a company). Also, every scientist wants his analysis to be a success -- significant and relevant. The problem is choosing the wrong method for an analysis, and/or interpreting the results in a slightly off way. When every but one method tells you that the results are insignificant and that one method is chosen (file drawer effect). If you're any use as a scientist -- got used to reading literature -- you will recognize these cases easily.
Scientists who do dodgy research don't stay long. They can't switch positions to a serious institute. In my opinion, it's not a problem in fundamental research.
Yes, you won't become rich, but potentially you'll have a fulfilled life.
Except these are not banks that have been hacked into, nor sites with thousands of users with accounts.
For those not in the know, this already happened many, many years ago:
One of the best-documented accounts of a prehistoric meal comes at the end of Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe (1990), by Alaska zoology professor Dale Guthrie. After successfully unearthing and preserving "Blue Babe," a 36,000-year-old steppe bison found near Fairbanks in 1979, Guthrie's team celebrates by simmering some leftover flesh from Babe's neck "in a pot of stock and vegetables." The author reports that "the meat was well aged but still a little tough, and it gave the stew a strong Pleistocene aroma." Now, I'm all for scientific esprit de corps, and I'm not by nature an incurious sort, but I'll say right now I don't see the appeal. Let's keep it simple: frozen meat from tundra = specimen; frozen meat from freezer = dinner. Study the mammoths and eat the burgers, and anyone who craves that great prehistoric taste can wash 'em down with Tab.
Maybe they left it over 10.000 years ago because it wasn't the best meat?
See also this clip from QI on tortoise extinction by too-hungry explorers.
I don't understand why people who obviously don't believe this repost the opinion of others. We just waste effort recircling the same argument again and again.
Our environment defines our thinking. People will assume positions if they see that it is possible to have it. If we move the whole discussion so that this position is not part of it anymore, it will be harder to write such a statement.
Some examples: (1) Right-extremist hate speech on foreigners and holocaust-denying makes it possible for otherwise average people to attain racist, fanatic and violent attitudes and don't think of themselves as the odd ones out. (2) 9/11 made it possible for people in the West to believe they can be attacked everywhere anytime.
If you want to avoid such extremes, shape the environment of the discussion that they are the odd ones out.
If you want to stick to your statement as ridicule offending Christians who interpret the Bible too literally despite the inconsistencies or intent, I suggest "The Earth is only 6,000 years old! In fact the bible says Jesus rode that mammoth before he saw the donkey."
Pretty interesting: Aside from a free mp3 hosted on a private site it comes with a tutorial for safe browsing recommending (HTTPSEverywhere, Tor) http://www.qnwqdj.gov.cn/tuto.htm .
Would be more effective if it was written in Chinese I guess.
And if they had actually hacked more than one site.
And if the protest came from inside China rather than outside.
Looks to me like a single, rather unsuccessful script kiddie with political interests rather than the "Anonymous hacking collective".
But why can it not be independent of the device? Why do we need a new law if we communicate through neutrinos and not electrons anymore?
Why isn't it enough to have the existing laws, and just apply them to electronic media?
Legislation in the EU tries to avoid introducing new laws and makes laws medium-neutral. Basically all communication-laws have been reused for jurisdiction on the Internet.
Well, the EU still manages to produce a frightening volume of new laws every year (i.e. measurable in cubic meters).
Yes, who uses Xlib these days.
FTFA
lol. Just lol.
Aside from being puzzled why did they think it would ... haven't they followed the last decade of "Web 2.0", Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, etc.? They oughta ask the guys over at archive.org how to be a librarian in this millenium. Here's my question:
Isn't the metadata about time already stored? Do smartphones add GPS info to the EXIF these days? (I'd like that anyways)
"80% of life|success is showing up."
That's what the asteroid said.
Why do you need a new distro for that? Just install the package! I see one in my package management system.