No script works better, but both together will work best. There are ways to track a user that get around no script completely, if the power players start honoring do not track that will be one less way for your privacy to be invaded.
I think the light exposure causes melanin production on about a 14 hour delay, making us want top go to sleep about 16 hours after exposure. This is why melanin supplements near bedtime are somewhat functional as a surrogate for actual light exposure in the morning.
Sadly, for some of us, that delay is larger, significantly so. In my case the delay is closer to 20 than 14, meaning my body essentially gets reset incorrectly every day. With careful management of a host of different factors, I can just about fall asleep at 1AM on a good day. If something disrupts that, if I don't get bright light in the morning, don't turn down the lamps, don't turn off the computer monitor, or just plain get kept up for 10 minutes past 1, it's all down hill from there. A single missed day can take weeks to recover from, because every day my circadian rhythm gets set to a value that's off by 5 hours compared to the normal world.
It wouldn't be a bad idea, but honestly if you had a problem you'd know it by now, take it from someone with a circadian rhythm disorder. During my bad spells I have every symptom of an 80 year old man; lack of concentration, poor memory, poor reaction time, moodiness and anger, physical exhaustion, and of course extreme drowsiness. And that's even if I manage to get a decent 6 hours of sleep, when your body is determined that it is time to sleep it does not appreciate being kept awake. You can push through it for a day or two, maybe a week with enough willpower, but 3 weeks into a stretch where your body thinks that 5AM to 1PM is the perfect time to sleep when family, work, and friends all think differently... well... yeah... you'd know if you had circadian rhythm problems.
Not only does Facebook do it but Microsoft also does it. The standard they are accusing Google of violating is so out of date that W3 doesn't even try to update it anymore, because no one follows it and most browsers don't even implement it fully. This is a non-story in every direction.
Well, as others have pointed out, they're already reducing the cost of DNA squencing by 300:1 at their starting price (which is expected to fall). If accuracy is important for your use case (it doesn't necessarily need to be for every single one you know) just run samples 3x and you'd still be cutting costs by 100:1 and your error rate would be.001%.
I actually don't think 2 years if fair, you're not going to establish market dominance in the book selling industry in two years based on your novel, even if it's the most groundbreaking piece of literature every written. So at the end of 2 years Amazon can give your novel away as an ebook for free or $.50 for a paperback copy? Yes, most of the profit from a work comes from the first year or two, but I think you'd see prices collapse overnight if everything more than 2 years old was public domain. Actually, what I suspect would happen would be a rebirth of short form and episodic literature. Why sell your novel for 2 years then see no income from it, when you can publish a new chapter every 3 months, relying on free advertising from the newly free earlier chapters to bring in new readers.
And dammit, I think I've made your argument for you. I take it back, if you throw out the old ideas of how the content industry is run you could make it work. Episodic content could push the price for any single piece of the final product well below the impulse buy threshold. You'd be killing off the cinema industry possibly, but even there when the final chapter of your movie is released you could play the movie in its entirety in theaters, you'd be the only one legally allowed to distribute the final chapter, which would still give you an effective monopoly on the movie. And if fewer people come because they've already seen the movie in the comfort of their own homes, well, you've already made $2-10 from them (for say 5 chapters at $2 each) and should probably count that as a win.
There have been many situations where vaccines were introduced to a large population without any statistically detectable negative effects. There have been a handful of cases where vaccines were pulled for safety reasons (contamination or spoilage) without any statistical positive effects. There have been studies of hundreds of thousands of children (in the Netherlands primarily, where medical records are more easily accessed for research purposes) that show no differences between immunized and nonimmunized children when it comes to any of the hypothetical vaccine related disease (of course, there are serious and significant differences in the rate of diseases that the vaccines prevent). The research that originally ignited the controversy has been refuted dozens of times by hundreds of other researchers, to the point where the publishing journal issued a retraction of the original article, something that is almost unheard of except in cases of outright fraud (which the original paper is).
Born of an entire generation of parents who are too lazy to deal with their children fairly and/or take the time to explain complex situations to them so they just go with "Life isn't fair". Every time I hear a parent say that I think to myself "But it should be" and wonder if it's the parent in this case who is creating or allowing the unfairness.
Life will never be fair, teach your kids that. But also teach your kids that just because perfection is impossible doesn't mean it isn't something to work towards. Otherwise we end up with exactly what's above, people who don't just accept the worlds unfairness, they actually see nothing wrong with it. These are the people who will happily watch their government approved telescreen, drink their victory gin, and say they live in the finest nation the world has ever seen.
What you've basically just said is that a teachers have too many kids in their class rooms to make eye contact with each one of them every 2-3 minutes, which is all it takes to tell if a student isn't paying attention and once you know that it's pretty easy to figure out why. If that's the case, doubling the number of teachers isn't just going to solve the 'wifi problem', it's going to improve education as well.
My point is, WiFi isn't the problem. The problem is kids not knowing how to behave respectfully and parents and teachers not knowing how to make kids behave respectfully. The solution to that problem isn't to get rid of WiFi so that a certain small percentage of students will have to find a different way to not pay attention. The solution is to teach the damn kids to listen to the teacher. That takes, first and foremost, constructive parental involvement; but since that doesn't seem to be an option these days giving the teachers the tools they need to run finishing school as well as a high school, including smaller class sizes, seams like a viable alternative.
If a teacher can't identify and punish people using their devices in class something is seriously wrong. Either they're lazy, or their class sizes are much to large, or there is a problem with the administrative and parenting levels not backing them up. Like most things, it's a learning experience, kids should learn not to pull out their smartphone when they should be paying attention, and if that means having said phone confiscated for the day/week/month (1st, 2nd, and 3rd strike respectively) they'll learn pretty dang fast. Of course, that would require parents to back up said teachers instead of driving the wambulance to the principle's office because the mean teacher yelled at 'little' (16 year old) Jimmy in front of his friends.
Bush: I pledge to double research spending over the next 10 years
A year later, the Republicans lose the election, putting Obama in office. Either:
A) Obama meets the pledge, in which case he's spending uncontrollably on things that don't matter or B) Obama doesn't meet the goal, in which case he's a anti-science short thinking idiot.
First: that shouldn't happen. I'm not saying it doesn't or won't, but if people are following the rules it shouldn't.
Second: classified documents are marked as such, top and bottom of every page.
Third: if you you do happen to see documents marked as classified, close them immediately (even if you have security clearance), power down the machine, put the drive in a safe, secure place, and contact someone. It really doesn't matter who, you'll get to the person you need to eventually even if you just call the local police department but you'd probably be better off looking up a general contact number for the DoD.
And for everyone out there who says "Just delete it! Contacting someone is just going to cause problems!", there are 2 things to consider. First, the information never should have been on the drive anyway. If somewhere down the line an investigation gets fired up to go into where all those missing drives went you can bet your ass they'll be knocking on your door, taking your drives (probably more than just the refurbished one), and asking a lot of questions (that are a lot easier to answer honestly than with little white lies). Second, most classified information is classified for a reason. If someone out there is selling drives with classified information on them, that's what we call a bad thing. Yeah, it's going to be a headache for you, but it's the kind of thing that really shouldn't be happening.
No, the solution is checking at update time and storing the list of revoked certs locally so that you don't need to rely on the CLR server being available (which is something a man in the middle would be able to disrupt anyway).
I say we start a new religion, and have as our holy symbol a rectangle with three horizontal stripes; orange, white, and green. And we find any other use of similar symbols, especially with other iconography added in, to be deeply insulting to our beliefs. Then move to India... umm... step 4... Profit!
I can't remember the exact quote, nor who it was that said it, but it goes something like this:
Everything he said was accurate, and not a word of it was true.
Do we really want random doctors performing do-it-yourself stem cell treatments on the fly with no oversight? Just because they come from your body doesn't mean they are harmless, I bet there are any number of chemicals, bacteria, or cell lines that could be isolated from the human body and put back into a different part and would lead to problems. Keying up on their (IMO mis-)use of the interstate commerce clause is just deflecting from the fact that these procedures should be regulated, and classifying stem cells as a drug seems to me to be a reasonable way to do it.
If person A commits a given action, and person B does the exact same, you don't want the judge to have leeway to execute A and give B a month's probation.
We already do this. We don't punish actions, we punish consequences. If I'm in a hurry and blow through a stop sign on purpose I get a fine. If I'm distracted by the guy behind me tailgating and blow through a stop sign and kill someone I'm up for manslaughter. My illegal activity, not stopping at the sign, is identical. But the consequences, and therefore the punishment are very different; in fact, they are nearly reversed from what some schools of ethics say they should be.
Sometimes stupidity is malice. Like when you're too uniformed, untrained, and unmotivated to do your very important job properly. Not admitting that and stepping down is malice.
Really? There are at least a handful of large, well run coops out there. Ocean Spray cranberries is the one that comes immediately to mind since they are local to where I grew up. $1.4 billion in sales might not equal Google's revenue, but it does show that large cooperatives can thrive.
Ostensibly, they allow for more brains behind the card than is possible with a magstripe. The current solution is simply a one time use CCV code, if a more recent code has been used it rejects all the codes that came before it, meaning that A) A stolen card can only be used once and B) Not even once if the legitimate user makes a purchase in the meantime. To me, with a bit more processing power, it seems like it should be possible to set up an encryption scheme where the person reading the card only ever sees encrypted data that would go stale in a matter of minutes (and yes, that includes stores). You could probably, of course, still clone the information and process a purchase quickly enough to commit fraud, but doing it on a large scale would be all but impossible.
So? If I started a bookstore with a single copy of each book and printed a new copy for each customer on demand I'd still be bound by first sale wouldn't I? Who cares when the copy is made.
What exactly did he do that you think should be illegal? He downloaded information off the internet; price lists, and bomb recipes. He possibly contacted someone (a single letter that may or may not have ever been sent) asking for spiritual guidance in relation to jihad. Note: not asking for support or guidance on how to perform jihad, but asking for spirtual guidance in relation to his having prepared for it. I'm not saying the guy shouldn't have been investigated, watched, and quite probably seen by a psychiatrist, but he hadn't done anything outside his computer and his head. And when we start locking people up for what they're thinking, we're already 90% of the way down the slippery sloap.
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No script works better, but both together will work best. There are ways to track a user that get around no script completely, if the power players start honoring do not track that will be one less way for your privacy to be invaded.
I think the light exposure causes melanin production on about a 14 hour delay, making us want top go to sleep about 16 hours after exposure. This is why melanin supplements near bedtime are somewhat functional as a surrogate for actual light exposure in the morning.
Sadly, for some of us, that delay is larger, significantly so. In my case the delay is closer to 20 than 14, meaning my body essentially gets reset incorrectly every day. With careful management of a host of different factors, I can just about fall asleep at 1AM on a good day. If something disrupts that, if I don't get bright light in the morning, don't turn down the lamps, don't turn off the computer monitor, or just plain get kept up for 10 minutes past 1, it's all down hill from there. A single missed day can take weeks to recover from, because every day my circadian rhythm gets set to a value that's off by 5 hours compared to the normal world.
It wouldn't be a bad idea, but honestly if you had a problem you'd know it by now, take it from someone with a circadian rhythm disorder. During my bad spells I have every symptom of an 80 year old man; lack of concentration, poor memory, poor reaction time, moodiness and anger, physical exhaustion, and of course extreme drowsiness. And that's even if I manage to get a decent 6 hours of sleep, when your body is determined that it is time to sleep it does not appreciate being kept awake. You can push through it for a day or two, maybe a week with enough willpower, but 3 weeks into a stretch where your body thinks that 5AM to 1PM is the perfect time to sleep when family, work, and friends all think differently... well... yeah... you'd know if you had circadian rhythm problems.
Not only does Facebook do it but Microsoft also does it. The standard they are accusing Google of violating is so out of date that W3 doesn't even try to update it anymore, because no one follows it and most browsers don't even implement it fully. This is a non-story in every direction.
Well, as others have pointed out, they're already reducing the cost of DNA squencing by 300:1 at their starting price (which is expected to fall). If accuracy is important for your use case (it doesn't necessarily need to be for every single one you know) just run samples 3x and you'd still be cutting costs by 100:1 and your error rate would be .001%.
I actually don't think 2 years if fair, you're not going to establish market dominance in the book selling industry in two years based on your novel, even if it's the most groundbreaking piece of literature every written. So at the end of 2 years Amazon can give your novel away as an ebook for free or $.50 for a paperback copy? Yes, most of the profit from a work comes from the first year or two, but I think you'd see prices collapse overnight if everything more than 2 years old was public domain. Actually, what I suspect would happen would be a rebirth of short form and episodic literature. Why sell your novel for 2 years then see no income from it, when you can publish a new chapter every 3 months, relying on free advertising from the newly free earlier chapters to bring in new readers.
And dammit, I think I've made your argument for you. I take it back, if you throw out the old ideas of how the content industry is run you could make it work. Episodic content could push the price for any single piece of the final product well below the impulse buy threshold. You'd be killing off the cinema industry possibly, but even there when the final chapter of your movie is released you could play the movie in its entirety in theaters, you'd be the only one legally allowed to distribute the final chapter, which would still give you an effective monopoly on the movie. And if fewer people come because they've already seen the movie in the comfort of their own homes, well, you've already made $2-10 from them (for say 5 chapters at $2 each) and should probably count that as a win.
There have been many situations where vaccines were introduced to a large population without any statistically detectable negative effects. There have been a handful of cases where vaccines were pulled for safety reasons (contamination or spoilage) without any statistical positive effects. There have been studies of hundreds of thousands of children (in the Netherlands primarily, where medical records are more easily accessed for research purposes) that show no differences between immunized and nonimmunized children when it comes to any of the hypothetical vaccine related disease (of course, there are serious and significant differences in the rate of diseases that the vaccines prevent). The research that originally ignited the controversy has been refuted dozens of times by hundreds of other researchers, to the point where the publishing journal issued a retraction of the original article, something that is almost unheard of except in cases of outright fraud (which the original paper is).
Born of an entire generation of parents who are too lazy to deal with their children fairly and/or take the time to explain complex situations to them so they just go with "Life isn't fair". Every time I hear a parent say that I think to myself "But it should be" and wonder if it's the parent in this case who is creating or allowing the unfairness.
Life will never be fair, teach your kids that. But also teach your kids that just because perfection is impossible doesn't mean it isn't something to work towards. Otherwise we end up with exactly what's above, people who don't just accept the worlds unfairness, they actually see nothing wrong with it. These are the people who will happily watch their government approved telescreen, drink their victory gin, and say they live in the finest nation the world has ever seen.
You might have a point were it not for all the female suicide bombers (admittedly lower in numbers, but they do happen).
What you've basically just said is that a teachers have too many kids in their class rooms to make eye contact with each one of them every 2-3 minutes, which is all it takes to tell if a student isn't paying attention and once you know that it's pretty easy to figure out why. If that's the case, doubling the number of teachers isn't just going to solve the 'wifi problem', it's going to improve education as well.
My point is, WiFi isn't the problem. The problem is kids not knowing how to behave respectfully and parents and teachers not knowing how to make kids behave respectfully. The solution to that problem isn't to get rid of WiFi so that a certain small percentage of students will have to find a different way to not pay attention. The solution is to teach the damn kids to listen to the teacher. That takes, first and foremost, constructive parental involvement; but since that doesn't seem to be an option these days giving the teachers the tools they need to run finishing school as well as a high school, including smaller class sizes, seams like a viable alternative.
If a teacher can't identify and punish people using their devices in class something is seriously wrong. Either they're lazy, or their class sizes are much to large, or there is a problem with the administrative and parenting levels not backing them up. Like most things, it's a learning experience, kids should learn not to pull out their smartphone when they should be paying attention, and if that means having said phone confiscated for the day/week/month (1st, 2nd, and 3rd strike respectively) they'll learn pretty dang fast. Of course, that would require parents to back up said teachers instead of driving the wambulance to the principle's office because the mean teacher yelled at 'little' (16 year old) Jimmy in front of his friends.
we do need to back off govt. spending as the economy improves.
Many economists would disagree with you.
Pretty easy really:
Bush: I pledge to double research spending over the next 10 years
A year later, the Republicans lose the election, putting Obama in office. Either:
A) Obama meets the pledge, in which case he's spending uncontrollably on things that don't matter
or
B) Obama doesn't meet the goal, in which case he's a anti-science short thinking idiot.
First: that shouldn't happen. I'm not saying it doesn't or won't, but if people are following the rules it shouldn't.
Second: classified documents are marked as such, top and bottom of every page.
Third: if you you do happen to see documents marked as classified, close them immediately (even if you have security clearance), power down the machine, put the drive in a safe, secure place, and contact someone. It really doesn't matter who, you'll get to the person you need to eventually even if you just call the local police department but you'd probably be better off looking up a general contact number for the DoD.
And for everyone out there who says "Just delete it! Contacting someone is just going to cause problems!", there are 2 things to consider. First, the information never should have been on the drive anyway. If somewhere down the line an investigation gets fired up to go into where all those missing drives went you can bet your ass they'll be knocking on your door, taking your drives (probably more than just the refurbished one), and asking a lot of questions (that are a lot easier to answer honestly than with little white lies). Second, most classified information is classified for a reason. If someone out there is selling drives with classified information on them, that's what we call a bad thing. Yeah, it's going to be a headache for you, but it's the kind of thing that really shouldn't be happening.
No, the solution is checking at update time and storing the list of revoked certs locally so that you don't need to rely on the CLR server being available (which is something a man in the middle would be able to disrupt anyway).
I say we start a new religion, and have as our holy symbol a rectangle with three horizontal stripes; orange, white, and green. And we find any other use of similar symbols, especially with other iconography added in, to be deeply insulting to our beliefs. Then move to India... umm... step 4... Profit!
I can't remember the exact quote, nor who it was that said it, but it goes something like this:
Everything he said was accurate, and not a word of it was true.
Do we really want random doctors performing do-it-yourself stem cell treatments on the fly with no oversight? Just because they come from your body doesn't mean they are harmless, I bet there are any number of chemicals, bacteria, or cell lines that could be isolated from the human body and put back into a different part and would lead to problems. Keying up on their (IMO mis-)use of the interstate commerce clause is just deflecting from the fact that these procedures should be regulated, and classifying stem cells as a drug seems to me to be a reasonable way to do it.
If person A commits a given action, and person B does the exact same, you don't want the judge to have leeway to execute A and give B a month's probation.
We already do this. We don't punish actions, we punish consequences. If I'm in a hurry and blow through a stop sign on purpose I get a fine. If I'm distracted by the guy behind me tailgating and blow through a stop sign and kill someone I'm up for manslaughter. My illegal activity, not stopping at the sign, is identical. But the consequences, and therefore the punishment are very different; in fact, they are nearly reversed from what some schools of ethics say they should be.
Sometimes stupidity is malice. Like when you're too uniformed, untrained, and unmotivated to do your very important job properly. Not admitting that and stepping down is malice.
Cooperatives don't really scale well.
Really? There are at least a handful of large, well run coops out there. Ocean Spray cranberries is the one that comes immediately to mind since they are local to where I grew up. $1.4 billion in sales might not equal Google's revenue, but it does show that large cooperatives can thrive.
Ostensibly, they allow for more brains behind the card than is possible with a magstripe. The current solution is simply a one time use CCV code, if a more recent code has been used it rejects all the codes that came before it, meaning that A) A stolen card can only be used once and B) Not even once if the legitimate user makes a purchase in the meantime. To me, with a bit more processing power, it seems like it should be possible to set up an encryption scheme where the person reading the card only ever sees encrypted data that would go stale in a matter of minutes (and yes, that includes stores). You could probably, of course, still clone the information and process a purchase quickly enough to commit fraud, but doing it on a large scale would be all but impossible.
So? If I started a bookstore with a single copy of each book and printed a new copy for each customer on demand I'd still be bound by first sale wouldn't I? Who cares when the copy is made.
What exactly did he do that you think should be illegal? He downloaded information off the internet; price lists, and bomb recipes. He possibly contacted someone (a single letter that may or may not have ever been sent) asking for spiritual guidance in relation to jihad. Note: not asking for support or guidance on how to perform jihad, but asking for spirtual guidance in relation to his having prepared for it. I'm not saying the guy shouldn't have been investigated, watched, and quite probably seen by a psychiatrist, but he hadn't done anything outside his computer and his head. And when we start locking people up for what they're thinking, we're already 90% of the way down the slippery sloap.
Wasn't there talk a while back about Madden moving over to a subscription model? Which would be exactly what you describe.
You mean the balls to go out of business?
Sad but yes. Would you help the empire build the Death Star?