I can understand Picasa auto-tagging, that actually sounds like a nice feature. But why would this be a rights violation, or applicable to the YRO section at all? As long as you use Picasa as a picture album and don't let it integrate with web services automatically, you shouldn't have a problem.
And if you do allow it to... maybe it's time to re-examine what information you entrust to a computer's discretion.
Can you claim that ignorance is a defense if the law is copyrighted because you literally don't have open access to it? Making laws inaccessible to the public is a slippery slope...
IANAL, could someone tell me why this wouldn't stand?
The guy who owns it now is running a blog that looks like it was written by a cheap copywriter. I think I'm going to email him about acquiring the domain, the site could be used for some hilarious parodies.
Its current use, or using it to commit crime, would be a waste of pure gold comedic content.
Anyways, the risk looks minimal. I searched for sites linking to nhtcu.com and there aren't that many -- and BBC has already stripped most of its links.
Redundent -- read selectively.
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This book happens to be in our club's collection. Someone gave it to us, I think I found it redundant, and times. but then, most language-centered programming books are, to a certain extent.
The first person in our group who read it went through and hi-lighted the page numbers with redundant material on them in blue, and hi-lighted the important pages in yellow. We were able to learn the language's syntax and nuances without reading through long-winded explanations about core concepts in OO or reviews of concepts just covered that way.
Generally, I've always found the "language bible" books more helpful than these types of books. Does anyone share my sentiment?
It's been in early development, and many people view it as a futile waste of time.
It's not inaccessible though, you can download it here:
https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html
There are also links to extensive documentation on that page.
I'm not a biologist, but I've gotten the impression that they've developed a better way to do something that's been done, which makes implementations in biotech more pragmatic
TFA:
"...This resulted in unusually stable, double-stranded structures resembling natural DNA.... The unique chemistry of these structures and their high stability offer unprecedented possibilities for developing new biotech materials and applications, the researchers say."
Then replace worksheets with experience. Teach students basic programming skills and have them write programs to analyze large data sets for chem experiments, or figure out the area of a trapezoid. Programming = great tool to make sure you understand something, from my experience.
But that's impossible.
It's amazing that schools spend millions on this technology, and still manage to have god awful IT/CS courses. Our "programming" course manages to get to arrays by the end of the semester, and since we discuss data types before condition statements, we spent half the second semester on if. Biggest waste of time. Reason? Our teacher was a complete idiot, he taught the course for years and we found ourselves correcting his syntax during class examples, or pointing out fatal errors with his program logic that made it spit out nonsense. Even the alpha jock in that class (who wrote a pretty elegant recursive function by the end, since we abandoned the teacher's instructions for the "work" part of the class and taught ourselves) knew more than the curriculum covered after the first month.
And from what I hear, most schools are the same -- at least around here (and I live in the suburbs of a large city.)
most of the technology here goes to complete waste in normal classes because the students generally know more about the machines than teachers.
Now, if they incorporated COMPUTING instead of computers, that would be sweet. Imagine using a geometry class and Object Orientation to simultaneously teach two things -- better? Students will KNOW those definitions because they will have taught them to the computer, and they will have some background in different methods of programming -- which is a useful tool no matter what field you go into.
I'm not going to get into a debate over consumer and business responsibilities, but it seems to me that at a certain point, you just have to be constantly vigilant and aware if you want your data to be secure. This is a perfect example -- you don't have to take surveys. What's the benefit?
The claim that B&M (and anyone pouring millions into the MDGs) are doing bad things to the developing world isn't that outrageous a claim. Remember the Prime Directive from Star Trek? It wasn't made of out of thin air -- it comes from a long line of dedevelopment critiques (people like Spanos, Escobar, and Illich) that state that development is bad.
Illich states that it's unsustainable and probably can't be achieved by Africa/Latin America, so "selling the middle class life style" just increases expectation and demand while squandering supplies on development projects that focus on national infrastructure (super highways don't do you any good if you don't have a car)
Spanos and others talk about how America and the west intervention is misguided -- it focuses on our conceptualization of America and the west as exceptional, which -- regardless of announced intentions -- dooms aid to ultimate failure, even if there are temporary successes.
Then there's people like Escobar who flat out state that any development does horrid things to indigenous people. Those in this camp call things like the B&M G foundation neocolonialist in nature. They draw on both colonial empirical examples and examples of how trying to achieve the MDG have lead to crappy stuff happening.
Don't forget those in the "globalization bad" camp, who claim that globalization is inherently predatory -- and that foreign aid is a tool used to indoctrinate areas into spheres of influence (these people point out that China is bidding for influence in Africa, and that some foreign aid funding comes from places like the Dept. of Homeland Security)
Anyway, the lesson is, just because you try to do good doesn't mean you aren't being evil.
"Part of it is to look for patterns in the deployment of assets. We're trying to block the surveillance cycle by making the security patrols appear in unpredictable places at unpredictable times."
If you figure this is a sizable force, and that all of them use the randomization software, four years worth of recon (TFA gave that as a time period for pre-strike operations) ought to give the terrorist enough information to know where these "random points" are. I mean, there has to be a defined set of locations somewhere in the program, they can't just be using coordinates. Imagine, a security guard climbing into an oven at the pizza place at the airport because "a computer told him to" (and the following lawsuits.)
How do they account for the fact that there will always be an area that these security forces don't patrol because no one told the computer that the place exists.
Anyone know how they manage telling the computer which places exist?
Does Burma have an amateur radio community? Packet radio would be great for transferring all types of information.
So would 4gb flash drives attached to carrier pigeons.
TFA: "In the server and workstation segment, Intel will continue to retain the Xeon and Itanium brand names, but with new logos. The Itanium 2 logo, in particular, will only say Itanium Inside. The desktop Core 2 brands and logos will see no changes in 2008."
So yes, you still get the same old ugly sticker on new desktops.
This is geek culture? And goes it appeal to geeks? I suppose it could be that I don't understand the difference between IT culture and geek culture, but that would be a crime that all of network TV is guilty of, too. I'd much prefer if those slots were filled with good Science Fiction or good educational TV, as I'm sure is true with most others in the geek community. A show about a guy with a pocket protector doesn't qualify automatically as about, or appealing to, geeks.
"The main thing that a camera system is good at doing is tracking people. And while that is a huge security problem, it can be beneficial to people that have been accused of a crime falsely, as it makes for an easier alibi."
Assuming the defendant gets access to the cameras. I may not be able to attest to this within the forum of British politics but I can say that those who have authority love to use cameras for fuck you over, but almost never use those cameras to help you prove them wrong. Our school has cameras, and a while back I was accused by an administrator of doing something I didn't do. I told them to look at the cameras if they didn't believe me. But cameras where never consulted, and I was punished regardless of the fact that they had proof that I didn't do what they were accusing me of.
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...to out-wit the local android. You have been warned.
...why does it wait until something is plugged in?
...would make a priceless /. headline.
I can understand Picasa auto-tagging, that actually sounds like a nice feature. But why would this be a rights violation, or applicable to the YRO section at all? As long as you use Picasa as a picture album and don't let it integrate with web services automatically, you shouldn't have a problem. And if you do allow it to... maybe it's time to re-examine what information you entrust to a computer's discretion.
Can you claim that ignorance is a defense if the law is copyrighted because you literally don't have open access to it? Making laws inaccessible to the public is a slippery slope... IANAL, could someone tell me why this wouldn't stand?
The guy who owns it now is running a blog that looks like it was written by a cheap copywriter. I think I'm going to email him about acquiring the domain, the site could be used for some hilarious parodies. Its current use, or using it to commit crime, would be a waste of pure gold comedic content. Anyways, the risk looks minimal. I searched for sites linking to nhtcu.com and there aren't that many -- and BBC has already stripped most of its links.
This book happens to be in our club's collection. Someone gave it to us, I think I found it redundant, and times. but then, most language-centered programming books are, to a certain extent. The first person in our group who read it went through and hi-lighted the page numbers with redundant material on them in blue, and hi-lighted the important pages in yellow. We were able to learn the language's syntax and nuances without reading through long-winded explanations about core concepts in OO or reviews of concepts just covered that way. Generally, I've always found the "language bible" books more helpful than these types of books. Does anyone share my sentiment?
It's been in early development, and many people view it as a futile waste of time. It's not inaccessible though, you can download it here: https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html There are also links to extensive documentation on that page.
Now, if Picard comes back in time to us, we can trick him into attacking the Enterprise with the Stargazer using the Picard Maneuver.
It would take many more balloons to keep a helicopter up. Doh!
I'm not a biologist, but I've gotten the impression that they've developed a better way to do something that's been done, which makes implementations in biotech more pragmatic TFA: "...This resulted in unusually stable, double-stranded structures resembling natural DNA.... The unique chemistry of these structures and their high stability offer unprecedented possibilities for developing new biotech materials and applications, the researchers say."
Then replace worksheets with experience. Teach students basic programming skills and have them write programs to analyze large data sets for chem experiments, or figure out the area of a trapezoid. Programming = great tool to make sure you understand something, from my experience. But that's impossible. It's amazing that schools spend millions on this technology, and still manage to have god awful IT/CS courses. Our "programming" course manages to get to arrays by the end of the semester, and since we discuss data types before condition statements, we spent half the second semester on if. Biggest waste of time. Reason? Our teacher was a complete idiot, he taught the course for years and we found ourselves correcting his syntax during class examples, or pointing out fatal errors with his program logic that made it spit out nonsense. Even the alpha jock in that class (who wrote a pretty elegant recursive function by the end, since we abandoned the teacher's instructions for the "work" part of the class and taught ourselves) knew more than the curriculum covered after the first month. And from what I hear, most schools are the same -- at least around here (and I live in the suburbs of a large city.)
most of the technology here goes to complete waste in normal classes because the students generally know more about the machines than teachers. Now, if they incorporated COMPUTING instead of computers, that would be sweet. Imagine using a geometry class and Object Orientation to simultaneously teach two things -- better? Students will KNOW those definitions because they will have taught them to the computer, and they will have some background in different methods of programming -- which is a useful tool no matter what field you go into.
I'm not going to get into a debate over consumer and business responsibilities, but it seems to me that at a certain point, you just have to be constantly vigilant and aware if you want your data to be secure. This is a perfect example -- you don't have to take surveys. What's the benefit?
The claim that B&M (and anyone pouring millions into the MDGs) are doing bad things to the developing world isn't that outrageous a claim. Remember the Prime Directive from Star Trek? It wasn't made of out of thin air -- it comes from a long line of dedevelopment critiques (people like Spanos, Escobar, and Illich) that state that development is bad. Illich states that it's unsustainable and probably can't be achieved by Africa/Latin America, so "selling the middle class life style" just increases expectation and demand while squandering supplies on development projects that focus on national infrastructure (super highways don't do you any good if you don't have a car) Spanos and others talk about how America and the west intervention is misguided -- it focuses on our conceptualization of America and the west as exceptional, which -- regardless of announced intentions -- dooms aid to ultimate failure, even if there are temporary successes. Then there's people like Escobar who flat out state that any development does horrid things to indigenous people. Those in this camp call things like the B&M G foundation neocolonialist in nature. They draw on both colonial empirical examples and examples of how trying to achieve the MDG have lead to crappy stuff happening. Don't forget those in the "globalization bad" camp, who claim that globalization is inherently predatory -- and that foreign aid is a tool used to indoctrinate areas into spheres of influence (these people point out that China is bidding for influence in Africa, and that some foreign aid funding comes from places like the Dept. of Homeland Security) Anyway, the lesson is, just because you try to do good doesn't mean you aren't being evil.
I don't run vista. Could someone try following the paper in vista and explain any differences?
"Part of it is to look for patterns in the deployment of assets. We're trying to block the surveillance cycle by making the security patrols appear in unpredictable places at unpredictable times."
If you figure this is a sizable force, and that all of them use the randomization software, four years worth of recon (TFA gave that as a time period for pre-strike operations) ought to give the terrorist enough information to know where these "random points" are. I mean, there has to be a defined set of locations somewhere in the program, they can't just be using coordinates. Imagine, a security guard climbing into an oven at the pizza place at the airport because "a computer told him to" (and the following lawsuits.)
How do they account for the fact that there will always be an area that these security forces don't patrol because no one told the computer that the place exists.
Anyone know how they manage telling the computer which places exist?
Does Burma have an amateur radio community? Packet radio would be great for transferring all types of information. So would 4gb flash drives attached to carrier pigeons.
TFA: "In the server and workstation segment, Intel will continue to retain the Xeon and Itanium brand names, but with new logos. The Itanium 2 logo, in particular, will only say Itanium Inside. The desktop Core 2 brands and logos will see no changes in 2008."
So yes, you still get the same old ugly sticker on new desktops.
This is geek culture? And goes it appeal to geeks? I suppose it could be that I don't understand the difference between IT culture and geek culture, but that would be a crime that all of network TV is guilty of, too. I'd much prefer if those slots were filled with good Science Fiction or good educational TV, as I'm sure is true with most others in the geek community. A show about a guy with a pocket protector doesn't qualify automatically as about, or appealing to, geeks.
"The main thing that a camera system is good at doing is tracking people. And while that is a huge security problem, it can be beneficial to people that have been accused of a crime falsely, as it makes for an easier alibi." Assuming the defendant gets access to the cameras. I may not be able to attest to this within the forum of British politics but I can say that those who have authority love to use cameras for fuck you over, but almost never use those cameras to help you prove them wrong. Our school has cameras, and a while back I was accused by an administrator of doing something I didn't do. I told them to look at the cameras if they didn't believe me. But cameras where never consulted, and I was punished regardless of the fact that they had proof that I didn't do what they were accusing me of.
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