I never worked for a company involved for gambling, but my father did. After many years working for a company that did security related work for slot machines, my father then moved to Intel. Largely to reduce time spent traveling IIRC. There should be no reason to be concerned. As mentioned elsewhere, the gambling industry has a high customer standard for security so it's more like a positive point to have experience there.
Sharing a computer is like sharing a toothbrush. Remind them that you're responsible, legally, for any malware or explicit material that accidentally pops up if they browse the web and the liability isn't worth it.
Point in the direction of the bookstore and say "student discount".
I worry less about the bloke traveling eighty in the fast lane than the guy going forty cutting through traffic. It's bad driving that causes accidents, not speed. Since you can't legislate or regulate driving skill beyond certain basics, do-gooders feel the need to chain down everyone.
It's senseless and no the government shouldn't feel responsible to keep me from killing myself through my own stupidity. Kill switches don't stop the road rage maniacs who have probably found a way around the system anyway, they stop the guy trying to get the hospital to save his friend's life or get his pregnant wife to the maternity ward.
There have always been huge holes in the asteroid theory. The vulcanism theory came out at the same time and matches evidence better, it even has correlation. All the asteroid theory has really is correlation: there's a layer of meteorite dust around the time of the dinosaur extinction, ergo a giant meteor killed the dinosaurs.
Unfortunately for the meteor theory, it was found that even such a huge dust cloud would not have killed off much of the eco-system, even taking the web of life into account. The dust from the meteor strike was too course to stay up in the atmosphere for long enough to kill off plant life by blocking sunlight or change the climate
To compensate for this, the theory was adjusted to suggest that the meteor strike set off world wide conflagrations sending up fine ash which would blot out the sun. This is, however a stretch. Combined with the fact that the mass extinction happened hundreds of thousands of years after the Chicxulub impact, the theory seems to be on shaky ground. Even supporters of the meteor theory recognize the problem and are looking for a better candidate impact.
It's been said that the Alverez's had done a better job at selling their theory than on developing it. Their actions in shouting down competing theories set off one of the biggest scientific feuds in modern history.
For a balanced view of the competing theories, check out this site.
There's NO such thing as an unregulated bank. There's no industry as regulated as banking is, not even food. The federal government has tried regulating banks to provide the american dream since Hoover and the more they meddle the more recessions we get.
Yes, the declaration of independence asserts all men are equal and enjoy certain inalienable rights. It doesn't enjoin the American govt to provide for the rights of non-citizens wherever they exist.
Likewise, no where do the documents suggest that the government is expected to protect the rights of enemies of the state at the expense of the citizenry.
At the time the Constitution was written, it was considered legal to shoot enemy spies caught on the battlefield or elsewhere with only a minimum of proceedings. If it was self evident the person was a spy, no trial was considered necessary.
Over the centuries nations agreed to certain rules, admitting explicitly that combatants and agents fell outside civil justice systems. Al Qaeda and their allies purposefully violate all of those rules to advance their goals.
This makes finding the balance between protecting citizens from it's enemies and protecting citizens from their government difficult. Labeling anyone who believes there is a difference between citizens and their enemies a 'problem' does not help anyone in striking that balance.
RTA, Obama said he was going to begin investigating closing the detainee camp at gitmo. This is a far cry from/actually/ ordering it/done/. If bush said this, you'd admit that it was a dodge.
First, the ruling preserved the right exercised by the USN to use sonar as it saw fit in training. It overturned a judicial order by a lower court, rather than setting regulations.
Second, it is President Bush, the honorific goes to the office he holds. Dropping the title makes the BBC sound petty.
Further, I personally doubt Bush himself had anything to do with the case, if the Administration defended the Navy, that's its job, the Clinton administration preserved the same rights. It's important to note, only two justices rejected the Navy's case. From Bloomberg: "Liberal Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer dissented in part and agreed in part with the ruling, while Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter disagreed with the entire decision."
The government registrar is tasked to hand out.gov addresses for handling government business. It's hard for even a local government to get a gov address (impossible). By what rational is privately copywritten content about how great you feel having elected obama federal government business?
Might as well let myspace register myspace.edu.
Always remember this. I'm not referring to the submitter necessarily, but never put it past the new guy, or the old fart in the corner who should know better to download PII ( Personal Identifying Information ) and forget about it. Then, all it takes is one laptop left in the back of the car and bam! the company has to assume all of the PII is out on the market.
WDE causes me headaches, but I figure the speed of my memory paging isn't as much an issue as the constant paging. Add more memory, stop paging, move on.
Honestly, with Windows, WDE bothers me more because relatively fixable system problems which prevent booting become 'nuke and pave' problems than because it makes the computer slower.
The first time ( or next time ) your PII is lost because some schlub downloaded it against policy and left his laptop at the coffee shop, you'll wish your company had a universal WDE policy.
I'm all for open government, which is not to say a government based on an open source software product development group.
Any one who has taken a poli sci class or a history class that covered ancient rome, athens or the founding of the US should see that the organization of ideas and resources in order to build a good software product is a vastly different paradigm than organizing a 'good' government.
First, the argument should be about what government means. I'm less concerned with what a government provides me ( a product ) than what it denies me. The moment government thinks it's supposed to produce a product as opposed to leave me alone, I would describe that government as tyrannical.
The bad mortgage/bad credit crisis was in large part created by people who felt it was the government's job to ensure anyone could get a house, regardless of ability to afford it. This is but one example of how government by good intentions invokes the law of unintended consequences for disastrous results.
Presenting to fourth graders is like presenting to upper mgt, except they have less authority.
Use lots of flashy colors, slides with sounds and visual effects, and you can make anything look important if you have spongebob squarepants say it in your slide.
The nice thing about how computer models are used in astrophysics is that we don't set public policy by them. It's especially nice that these models actually match observed phenomenon.
In my personal experience, the question is sadly humorous. Regardless of whether I come in or not, my meetings are all virtual with exception of the monthly staff. Even if I come in daily, I only see the people I actually work with once in a while if we happen to have a mtg in the same building.
Everyone in my group that works on the same projects I do work from home 90%-98% of the time.
With this scenario, working largely from home makes sense from both a managerial, personal, and environmental perspective.
The ACLU has been busy the last eight years suing many states or counties that failed to deploy electronic voting machines, I'm surprised they haven't filed an injunction in these cases.
CLEVELAND â" The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Ohio filed a lawsuit against state election officials in federal court today challenging the use of unequal, inaccurate and inadequate voting technology in Ohioâ(TM)s most populous county. Todayâ(TM)s legal action seeks to block Cuyahoga Countyâ(TM)s recent shift from using electronic voting machines to a system that lacks the ability to provide voters with notice of balloting errors and an opportunity to correct such mistakes. According to the ACLU, the use of this new system violates the Constitutionâ(TM)s Fourteenth Amendment as well as the Voting Rights Act.
Too bad that despite eight years of intense scrutiny, multi-million dollar bounties, and boundless efforts to fabricate evidence, no attempt to show that this Administration has flagrantly broken the law, let alone for the purpose of self-enrichment, has succeeded. This idiotic expenditure of congressional calendar and of taxpayer money won't either. Haliburton has received fewer no-bid contracts under Bush than they did under Clinton.
In fact, 'Bush & Co.' will leave the White House significantly poorer than the previous Administration who received all kinds of payments for things like pardons, government subsidized loans, putting friends up in the White House, and selling White House furniture and flatware. Al Gore alone is worth two hundred million these days, more than the entire administration combined.
I wouldn't oppose this kind of investigation if there were any legal standing for a complaint. But it's been quite clear for years now that what Democrats refer to as 'domestic spying' includes phone calls that route through the US but whose endpoints are both foreign and made by non-citizens. The Constitutional protections of due process were not intended to protect these calls any more than they protected the Soviets and Nazis internal communications.
Even with all of that, I could accept that it's the prerogative of the party in power to cudgel the party not in power if only Congress wasn't still trying to finish last year's budgets. They've accomplished nothing so far and they're not even doing that well.
First, the nation's business, THEN play self-indignant party apparatchik.
Funny that a guy who has 'Democracy Now!' as his sig should respond to the news with a flippant accusation against the US rather than a statement supporting the poor people of Cuba who have no democracy. These same people who risk their lives swimming in rickety makeshift watercraft trying to reach the US to realize actual democracy.
How long before the ACLU sues to prevent the state from dumping the electronic balloting system? They fought CA tooth and nail in order to stop an election until electronic balloting was imposed statewide.
I've seen programming taught some five different ways, each in different languages. I felt that starting with C/C++ was the second worst way ( Pascal being the worst ). You're asking people with no assumed background in computers and telling them that data is stored somewhere different, and treated differently, but are sort of the same value, depending on which character you put in front your variable declaration.
I didn't really get pointers/until/ I started programming in Java and made a practice of working with everything by reference. It's not/Java/ that makes bad programmers, it's how you learn. If you start programming by 'just picking up the language' since 'anyone can learn a language', then no, you won't learn how the language handles memory or pointers. But you can't say that suffering through C/C++ syntactical hell is a requirement for computer science. There's several incompatible implementations of C++, but only one implementation of Java. That alone makes it better for introductions to programming.
I think C/C++ is great for low level work. Being able to have direct control over every operation is important when when writing compilers, kernels, etc. For 90% of the work out there today, it's a blinkered hinderence to have to track all the memory allocation/deallocation. For all the extra work required, the more likely there will be rework. The moree times you have cases where 'you must always do this', the more times it won't be done.
In most business environments, the work is at a high level, and the need for rapid development is greater than the need for direct control over memory management. Say what you like about Java, but I understand pointers and linked lists, but I'm not going back to dereferencing, destructors, and header files.
Java is not alone in eschewing memory mgt and passing off a lot of the low level work. Perl preceded it, and should arguably have done more harm over time because it's so forgiving and flexible. But no one complains about how Perl teaches bad habits.
Jeeze, who knew editing wikipedia was a crime against the people. It's wikipedia folks, everyone collectively decides on the truth. Even the government. If you don't like what someone delete, you get to put it back up. Yes, someone was dumb enough to put a stupid anti-castro slur up on wikipedia. Other than that, the changes seem no different than what goes on all day across wikipedia.
The government probably considers internal detainee information sensitive, so it shouldn't shock normal people that the government would want to remove that data. Nor should it shock any reasonable people that the government has something to say about its operations that isn't vituperative.
I think it's fine for graduate students to write for wikipedia, but it shouldn't be considered 'peer reviewed' work as that would require publishing to a journal that is/certain/ to be read. If I wrote a nice dissertation about the evil history of oil on the wall of a gas station, many people might see it, but it wouldn't be peer reviewed.
I would also be concerned that someone other a SME ( Subject Matter Expert ) is writing article wholesale for wikipedia. I would think that these/students/ are supposed to be/learning/ about the topic, not teaching others on a topic they're just being introduced to.
When I read the wikipedia article on Star Trek, I'm certain it's been written and vetted by dozens on fanatic Trekkers. When I read a wikipedia article on a little known ecological disaster from fifty years ago, I'd rather it was written by a professor, reporter, or enthusiast on the topic ( like a survivor ), rather than someone who is just relaying what they got from two hours of research and comments by their prof.
Any good class covering american govt should have covered the role of the Fed, same as any Econ 101 class. Failure to recall these lessons is not a govt conspiracy. Most of the basics of what the Fed is and does has been taught to most people at one time or another, if they don't know, it's their fault.
The way the news media treats the Fed as some mystical economic oracle and it's chief as some superstar is likely responsible for deflating any serious discussion among laymen. However, watch a financial segment between finance reporters and a lot of the cruft is washed away.
A lot more about Fed can be learned from watching CNBC daytime than from CNN.
They could alleviate their MASSIVE carbon footprint from flying a small jet by walking to the office from the strip or using segways. I've walked onto the base from my apartment which was further.
I think that the case in abstract is a useful one. In practice though we've seen many governments' horrific practices brought to light. Think the of the killing fields of Cambodia, the gassing of the Kurds, the massacre of the Armenians. Or, somewhat more trenchantly, the genocide against Africans in Darfur. These cases all came to light because sources informed the media or others who went and reported on it themselves. They didn't rely on anonymous sources, they got hard copy first hand to relate the stories. Nearly all anonymous sources quoted in stories are in no real danger whatsoever.
This also leads up to one of the worst abuses by a media organization, namely CNN from 1991 to 2003. They knew about how atrocious Saddam Hussein was to his people but hid that from the world in order to protect their source, Saddam Hussein, from the court of public opinion. Does anyone really think that CNN's access to Hussein was worth more than getting the truth out about his regime?
This source vs integrity issue is the very reason I oppose the shield law. Journalists interested in the truth rather then their career would see in a second that bloggers are just as important to uncovering the truth as any source. Yet, bloggers aren't worthy any protection in the eyes of the industry. If the industry weren't so arrogant and self-serving, I'd support the law, but the day of the selfless muckracker is long dead.
As for the mafia example, it's constitutionally pretty tricky to use anonymous accusers. The Sixth Ammendment garantees the right to confront your accuser. Normally, as I understand it, such sources are subpeonable, but are then put in witness protection afterwards ( their family's having already gone into it ).
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I never worked for a company involved for gambling, but my father did. After many years working for a company that did security related work for slot machines, my father then moved to Intel. Largely to reduce time spent traveling IIRC. There should be no reason to be concerned. As mentioned elsewhere, the gambling industry has a high customer standard for security so it's more like a positive point to have experience there.
Sharing a computer is like sharing a toothbrush. Remind them that you're responsible, legally, for any malware or explicit material that accidentally pops up if they browse the web and the liability isn't worth it.
Point in the direction of the bookstore and say "student discount".
It's senseless and no the government shouldn't feel responsible to keep me from killing myself through my own stupidity. Kill switches don't stop the road rage maniacs who have probably found a way around the system anyway, they stop the guy trying to get the hospital to save his friend's life or get his pregnant wife to the maternity ward.
Unfortunately for the meteor theory, it was found that even such a huge dust cloud would not have killed off much of the eco-system, even taking the web of life into account. The dust from the meteor strike was too course to stay up in the atmosphere for long enough to kill off plant life by blocking sunlight or change the climate
To compensate for this, the theory was adjusted to suggest that the meteor strike set off world wide conflagrations sending up fine ash which would blot out the sun. This is, however a stretch. Combined with the fact that the mass extinction happened hundreds of thousands of years after the Chicxulub impact, the theory seems to be on shaky ground. Even supporters of the meteor theory recognize the problem and are looking for a better candidate impact.
It's been said that the Alverez's had done a better job at selling their theory than on developing it. Their actions in shouting down competing theories set off one of the biggest scientific feuds in modern history.
For a balanced view of the competing theories, check out this site.
There's NO such thing as an unregulated bank. There's no industry as regulated as banking is, not even food. The federal government has tried regulating banks to provide the american dream since Hoover and the more they meddle the more recessions we get.
It's our giant microwave cannon, er, emitting power station. Trust us, we would never point it at anyone....
Yes, the declaration of independence asserts all men are equal and enjoy certain inalienable rights. It doesn't enjoin the American govt to provide for the rights of non-citizens wherever they exist.
Likewise, no where do the documents suggest that the government is expected to protect the rights of enemies of the state at the expense of the citizenry.
At the time the Constitution was written, it was considered legal to shoot enemy spies caught on the battlefield or elsewhere with only a minimum of proceedings. If it was self evident the person was a spy, no trial was considered necessary.
Over the centuries nations agreed to certain rules, admitting explicitly that combatants and agents fell outside civil justice systems. Al Qaeda and their allies purposefully violate all of those rules to advance their goals.
This makes finding the balance between protecting citizens from it's enemies and protecting citizens from their government difficult. Labeling anyone who believes there is a difference between citizens and their enemies a 'problem' does not help anyone in striking that balance.
RTA, Obama said he was going to begin investigating closing the detainee camp at gitmo. This is a far cry from /actually/ ordering it /done/. If bush said this, you'd admit that it was a dodge.
First, the ruling preserved the right exercised by the USN to use sonar as it saw fit in training. It overturned a judicial order by a lower court, rather than setting regulations.
Second, it is President Bush, the honorific goes to the office he holds. Dropping the title makes the BBC sound petty.
Further, I personally doubt Bush himself had anything to do with the case, if the Administration defended the Navy, that's its job, the Clinton administration preserved the same rights. It's important to note, only two justices rejected the Navy's case. From Bloomberg: "Liberal Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer dissented in part and agreed in part with the ruling, while Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter disagreed with the entire decision."
The government registrar is tasked to hand out .gov addresses for handling government business. It's hard for even a local government to get a gov address (impossible). By what rational is privately copywritten content about how great you feel having elected obama federal government business?
Might as well let myspace register myspace.edu.
WDE causes me headaches, but I figure the speed of my memory paging isn't as much an issue as the constant paging. Add more memory, stop paging, move on.
Honestly, with Windows, WDE bothers me more because relatively fixable system problems which prevent booting become 'nuke and pave' problems than because it makes the computer slower.
The first time ( or next time ) your PII is lost because some schlub downloaded it against policy and left his laptop at the coffee shop, you'll wish your company had a universal WDE policy.
I'm all for open government, which is not to say a government based on an open source software product development group.
Any one who has taken a poli sci class or a history class that covered ancient rome, athens or the founding of the US should see that the organization of ideas and resources in order to build a good software product is a vastly different paradigm than organizing a 'good' government.
First, the argument should be about what government means. I'm less concerned with what a government provides me ( a product ) than what it denies me. The moment government thinks it's supposed to produce a product as opposed to leave me alone, I would describe that government as tyrannical.
The bad mortgage/bad credit crisis was in large part created by people who felt it was the government's job to ensure anyone could get a house, regardless of ability to afford it. This is but one example of how government by good intentions invokes the law of unintended consequences for disastrous results.
Presenting to fourth graders is like presenting to upper mgt, except they have less authority.
Use lots of flashy colors, slides with sounds and visual effects, and you can make anything look important if you have spongebob squarepants say it in your slide.
The nice thing about how computer models are used in astrophysics is that we don't set public policy by them. It's especially nice that these models actually match observed phenomenon.
In my personal experience, the question is sadly humorous. Regardless of whether I come in or not, my meetings are all virtual with exception of the monthly staff. Even if I come in daily, I only see the people I actually work with once in a while if we happen to have a mtg in the same building.
Everyone in my group that works on the same projects I do work from home 90%-98% of the time.
With this scenario, working largely from home makes sense from both a managerial, personal, and environmental perspective.
The ACLU has been busy the last eight years suing many states or counties that failed to deploy electronic voting machines, I'm surprised they haven't filed an injunction in these cases.
CLEVELAND â" The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Ohio filed a lawsuit against state election officials in federal court today challenging the use of unequal, inaccurate and inadequate voting technology in Ohioâ(TM)s most populous county. Todayâ(TM)s legal action seeks to block Cuyahoga Countyâ(TM)s recent shift from using electronic voting machines to a system that lacks the ability to provide voters with notice of balloting errors and an opportunity to correct such mistakes. According to the ACLU, the use of this new system violates the Constitutionâ(TM)s Fourteenth Amendment as well as the Voting Rights Act.
In fact, 'Bush & Co.' will leave the White House significantly poorer than the previous Administration who received all kinds of payments for things like pardons, government subsidized loans, putting friends up in the White House, and selling White House furniture and flatware. Al Gore alone is worth two hundred million these days, more than the entire administration combined.
I wouldn't oppose this kind of investigation if there were any legal standing for a complaint. But it's been quite clear for years now that what Democrats refer to as 'domestic spying' includes phone calls that route through the US but whose endpoints are both foreign and made by non-citizens. The Constitutional protections of due process were not intended to protect these calls any more than they protected the Soviets and Nazis internal communications.
Even with all of that, I could accept that it's the prerogative of the party in power to cudgel the party not in power if only Congress wasn't still trying to finish last year's budgets. They've accomplished nothing so far and they're not even doing that well.
First, the nation's business, THEN play self-indignant party apparatchik.
Funny that a guy who has 'Democracy Now!' as his sig should respond to the news with a flippant accusation against the US rather than a statement supporting the poor people of Cuba who have no democracy. These same people who risk their lives swimming in rickety makeshift watercraft trying to reach the US to realize actual democracy.
They are very adamant about using current electronic balloting systems with no regard for their flaws.
Now I wonder, if they did, would that make the ACLU a card-carrying member of the bushitler conspiracy, or just a shill?
I didn't really get pointers
I think C/C++ is great for low level work. Being able to have direct control over every operation is important when when writing compilers, kernels, etc. For 90% of the work out there today, it's a blinkered hinderence to have to track all the memory allocation/deallocation. For all the extra work required, the more likely there will be rework. The moree times you have cases where 'you must always do this', the more times it won't be done.
In most business environments, the work is at a high level, and the need for rapid development is greater than the need for direct control over memory management. Say what you like about Java, but I understand pointers and linked lists, but I'm not going back to dereferencing, destructors, and header files.
Java is not alone in eschewing memory mgt and passing off a lot of the low level work. Perl preceded it, and should arguably have done more harm over time because it's so forgiving and flexible. But no one complains about how Perl teaches bad habits.
The government probably considers internal detainee information sensitive, so it shouldn't shock normal people that the government would want to remove that data. Nor should it shock any reasonable people that the government has something to say about its operations that isn't vituperative.
I would also be concerned that someone other a SME ( Subject Matter Expert ) is writing article wholesale for wikipedia. I would think that these /students/ are supposed to be /learning/ about the topic, not teaching others on a topic they're just being introduced to.
When I read the wikipedia article on Star Trek, I'm certain it's been written and vetted by dozens on fanatic Trekkers. When I read a wikipedia article on a little known ecological disaster from fifty years ago, I'd rather it was written by a professor, reporter, or enthusiast on the topic ( like a survivor ), rather than someone who is just relaying what they got from two hours of research and comments by their prof.
The way the news media treats the Fed as some mystical economic oracle and it's chief as some superstar is likely responsible for deflating any serious discussion among laymen. However, watch a financial segment between finance reporters and a lot of the cruft is washed away.
A lot more about Fed can be learned from watching CNBC daytime than from CNN.
They could alleviate their MASSIVE carbon footprint from flying a small jet by walking to the office from the strip or using segways. I've walked onto the base from my apartment which was further.
This also leads up to one of the worst abuses by a media organization, namely CNN from 1991 to 2003. They knew about how atrocious Saddam Hussein was to his people but hid that from the world in order to protect their source, Saddam Hussein, from the court of public opinion. Does anyone really think that CNN's access to Hussein was worth more than getting the truth out about his regime?
This source vs integrity issue is the very reason I oppose the shield law. Journalists interested in the truth rather then their career would see in a second that bloggers are just as important to uncovering the truth as any source. Yet, bloggers aren't worthy any protection in the eyes of the industry. If the industry weren't so arrogant and self-serving, I'd support the law, but the day of the selfless muckracker is long dead.
As for the mafia example, it's constitutionally pretty tricky to use anonymous accusers. The Sixth Ammendment garantees the right to confront your accuser. Normally, as I understand it, such sources are subpeonable, but are then put in witness protection afterwards ( their family's having already gone into it ).