It seems like you could get prevent even the most advanced speech recognition algorithms available these days from recognizing the "key phrase" that should be entered into a form by using a text such as Ladle Rat Rotten Hut. These kinds of texts are nonsensical if interpreted literally, but if you use the context and the phonetic sounds of the words (as humans automatically do) to interpret the text, the meaning is crystal clear.
I haven't heard of any legislation to that effect, but when I was a clerk at a primarily used CD store a while back (like 8 years ago), we had the policy of taking down personal information of anyone who sold more than $100 worth of CDs to the store. That info was linked to a list of the CDs that were sold, and filed. This was just in case the CDs turned out to be stolen, and the police *frequently* came by to ask us about a batch of stolen CDs. Not surprisingly, people also frequently refused to provide us with that info.
So I'm guessing that the law in Chicago (if there really is such a law) has more to do with burglary than with IP violations. Aren't Pawn shops required to keep similar logs?
If you're interested in really high quality loose teas, you should check out Upton Tea.
Their catalog can be overwhelming to a tea newbie, but if you check out popular purchases you can't go wrong. They offer some truly incredible teas. And no, I'm not affiliated with them...
The folks over at Random.org use atmospheric noise to generate true random integers. I use their numbers all the time, although not for anything as complicated as cryptography...
Just a note about the psychological research you refer to. You're partially right -- children generally develop the ability to comprehend abstract concepts around age 12-14. There's still a lot of individual variation around that age-range, though. And that also has more to do with abstract concepts such as the ability to understand variables in algebra, etc.
Kids are able to understand that pictures and video refer to the real-world at a much younger age -- around 2.5 years (look up the cognitive development research by DeLoache and/or Troseth for specifics, if you're interested). If kids can understand that a picture/video refers to the real-world, then they can learn about the real-world using the picture/video.
So computers/videos aren't quite as bad as you make them out to be, but I'm in complete agreement with you that play-dough, sand pit, and Legos win out over "high tech" toys any day.
We have a program like that in Tennessee. It works great -- I haven't gotten a single telemarketer call for over a year, and before I put my name on the list I was getting about 10/week.
At my university, we have access to a bunch of technical-type books via a service called netlibrary.com. They let you "check out" a book for 2 hours (during which time nobody else has access to the book), then the book expires and you have to re-check it out to continue reading it.
What's more, you can't copy more than 1k characters to the clipboard, and can't print out more than a couple of pages at a time. The real problem is that we can't get books through interlibrary loan if they're available on netlibrary, so we're stuck with reading off the screen for 2 hour blocks.
Has anyone figured out a way around these absurd restrictions?
But the decision on whether or not to publish it (i.e., the editors) is made by volunteers. The reviewers who help with this decision are also volunteers. The authors submit the papers for free.
You might need to pay an editorial assistant ~$800USD/month to keep the file cabinets organized and deal with authors (I was one for a major Psych. journal for a while), but beyond that and the cost of printing (and imaging, etc.) all the *real* work is done on a volunteer basis.
So why do subscriptions cost so much? I sure don't know.
-HG
IQ scores are on a normal distribution, with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. That means that on average, people score 100+-15. Different IQ tests might have different scales, but all the major ones translate their norms to mean=100 for consistency. Still, half the people have double-digit IQs, and that's pretty scary when you think about it... and I guess some of them work for whatever company puts out Trivial Pursuit!
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'get prevent' should be 'prevent'. Sorry.
It seems like you could get prevent even the most advanced speech recognition algorithms available these days from recognizing the "key phrase" that should be entered into a form by using a text such as Ladle Rat Rotten Hut. These kinds of texts are nonsensical if interpreted literally, but if you use the context and the phonetic sounds of the words (as humans automatically do) to interpret the text, the meaning is crystal clear.
I haven't heard of any legislation to that effect, but when I was a clerk at a primarily used CD store a while back (like 8 years ago), we had the policy of taking down personal information of anyone who sold more than $100 worth of CDs to the store. That info was linked to a list of the CDs that were sold, and filed. This was just in case the CDs turned out to be stolen, and the police *frequently* came by to ask us about a batch of stolen CDs. Not surprisingly, people also frequently refused to provide us with that info.
So I'm guessing that the law in Chicago (if there really is such a law) has more to do with burglary than with IP violations. Aren't Pawn shops required to keep similar logs?
If you're interested in really high quality loose teas, you should check out Upton Tea.
Their catalog can be overwhelming to a tea newbie, but if you check out popular purchases you can't go wrong. They offer some truly incredible teas. And no, I'm not affiliated with them...
The folks over at Random.org use atmospheric noise to generate true random integers. I use their numbers all the time, although not for anything as complicated as cryptography...
Just a note about the psychological research you refer to. You're partially right -- children generally develop the ability to comprehend abstract concepts around age 12-14. There's still a lot of individual variation around that age-range, though. And that also has more to do with abstract concepts such as the ability to understand variables in algebra, etc.
Kids are able to understand that pictures and video refer to the real-world at a much younger age -- around 2.5 years (look up the cognitive development research by DeLoache and/or Troseth for specifics, if you're interested). If kids can understand that a picture/video refers to the real-world, then they can learn about the real-world using the picture/video.
So computers/videos aren't quite as bad as you make them out to be, but I'm in complete agreement with you that play-dough, sand pit, and Legos win out over "high tech" toys any day.
They're already using some hydrogen powered busses at the airport in Munich.
I saw one last summer when I was travelling, but unfortunately did not get to ride on one. Interesting stuff!
We have a program like that in Tennessee. It works great -- I haven't gotten a single telemarketer call for over a year, and before I put my name on the list I was getting about 10/week.
Here's a link I got from a google search.
Crazy stuff, and even crazier that I (and I'm guessing most of us) had never heard about this before.
At my university, we have access to a bunch of technical-type books via a service called netlibrary.com. They let you "check out" a book for 2 hours (during which time nobody else has access to the book), then the book expires and you have to re-check it out to continue reading it. What's more, you can't copy more than 1k characters to the clipboard, and can't print out more than a couple of pages at a time. The real problem is that we can't get books through interlibrary loan if they're available on netlibrary, so we're stuck with reading off the screen for 2 hour blocks. Has anyone figured out a way around these absurd restrictions?
But the decision on whether or not to publish it (i.e., the editors) is made by volunteers. The reviewers who help with this decision are also volunteers. The authors submit the papers for free. You might need to pay an editorial assistant ~$800USD/month to keep the file cabinets organized and deal with authors (I was one for a major Psych. journal for a while), but beyond that and the cost of printing (and imaging, etc.) all the *real* work is done on a volunteer basis. So why do subscriptions cost so much? I sure don't know. -HG
When it was still DejaNews, they blocked access from Anonymizer addresses. Don't know about other anonymizing services, though.
IQ scores are on a normal distribution, with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. That means that on average, people score 100+-15. Different IQ tests might have different scales, but all the major ones translate their norms to mean=100 for consistency. Still, half the people have double-digit IQs, and that's pretty scary when you think about it... and I guess some of them work for whatever company puts out Trivial Pursuit!