Yes you have a point. But this still does not make it the newspapers problem. Also in this case there is the criminal record. I don't know what the requirements are like in the US. But in New Zealand and much of the EU, you are required to disclose your criminal record to employers. So this would have been following him without google. In fact the offending article doesn't seem to come up in google at all.
...I'm sure you have much more serious reasons to be worried about "being fired on the spot" than whatever embarrassing-but-legal things you did in the distant past.
The context here is theft. Petty theft, but theft all the same, and he had stolen items on him when caught. Many people would not treat this as an embarrassment but take it as a serious issue that could make the company more liable if they person is in a position of trust (ie working with money).
This guy was arrested for petty theft. He had over $400 worth of stolen items on him at the time.
In New Zealand you are already not permitted to work at a bank or at a till in retail with such a record. There is no shortage of people who don't have such "history".
Were i live now, Austria, you are allowed to drink wine and beer at 16 and spirits at 18. You can go to night clubs till midnight when between 16-18. You can get a criminal record from 14. They did just change the age to vote to 16, but that was more of a political thing. They whole you should be allowed to act like a stupid teenager and get away with till your early 20's seems to be more an American thing.
If you are legally an adult that means, by definition, that you should face the consequences of your actions *and* resultant public record of those actions. The world does not need to bend to your lack of maturity considering a lot of other people in the same situation don't do such stupid things. The physical world is far less forgiving. Getting pregnant or crashing a car being an idiot is a common enough thing for younger people to do, and you are stuck with the results of that for the rest of your life.
Get a criminal record with theft in there is a record for life every country I have lived in. You are required to disclose your criminal record to any employer.
I have a 16 year old daughter that is allowed to go out night clubbing etc. I do not expect her not to do dumb things. But i expect her to take responsibility for them when she does.
Still, I would like that public institutions would think twice before (re-)publishing stories with names in them..
So archived newspapers (including microfiche), court reports etc all have to be "redone" now. This is public information that was published publicly, there is no expectation that it would become private after some time.
If our mistakes are serious enough to become a matter of public record... Then well its there for all to see.
Department of Public Safety officials have
charged Kevin G. Vanginderen of 603 Winston
Court Apartments with third degree burglary in
connection with 10 incidents of petit larceny and
five burglaires on campus over a period of a
year. Safety reported recovering some $474
worth of stolen goods from him....
Or the guys with the cool plane on the front cover.
If you have to pick between someone that did a bunch of stupid stuff at university and someone who didn't, who are you going to pick? These are not kids we are talking about. They are 18+ years old. When the hell are they going to grow up and take responsibility for their own mistakes/actions?
That both parties can understand without paying 200 per hour for an "interpretation", yes I would. By the way there is no guarantee that the interpretation is correct and you don't have any recourse against the interpreter if the interpretation is wrong.
Its more of what cooperations tend to be like. Even when everyone likes the idea of open development etc. You still have n+1 PHB and lawyers to keep happy. Thats why a corporation "sponsoring" a OS projects tends to work, while a corporation leading a OS project tends to gain this "control freaks" reputation. Of course they may really be control freaks too.
I have heard MySQL is better now. But when we moved a ansi sql thing to MySQL we where pretty surprised by what was missing. Back then the free version only had table locking, which made mostly read type database fast. But read/write/update heavy performance was quite poor. Also I hope transaction support and foreign keys are there now.
Postgres had all these features and basically a just worked with everything, including the store procedures.
But as i said that was a while ago now. Anyway we are currently all Oracle atm. But we have both mysql and postgres (and HSQLDB). A good database is one you can replace easily with another good database.
I am in fact doing the same. I was the first to submit my article in latex to genetics. There where no serious problems and the proofs didn't have any more errors that others get.
So far I have not needed to convert anything to word... I dread the day.
All my home machines run slamd64. Its was great to get back to slack, with a totaly painless install even on the laptop (ooo-baan-toooo would even boot the install DVD/CD). I even have the wife and daughter using it. It has the best part of the Slackware experience. Its just works and keeps working.
This is not as clear as you might think. The advice I got was "while your not making money, we don't think its a problem" which covers things like ffmpeg etc. But if you make money-ie sell software for profit, the lawyers get very very twitchy and start making it pretty clear (ie in writing) that you are not following their legal advice on the matter.
I found it 1000x easier to learn latex. I still can't use word/OO. It keeps messing with the formating. I do a backspace and it jumps up 3 lines and sets itself back to Heading style 3 or whatever. And don't get me started about tables... Or math where you have lots of x^2 and things through the document.
Most math and physics journals don't take anything but latex. Period. And for good reason. I have seen people compromise notation to the point of unreadability because its hard to do proper math with the equation editor. Perhaps you should tell the journals that this is "absolutely unreasonable" since you won't be able to publish with word.
In biology quite a few journals only took word. But thats slowly changing.
I have worked with a few that take word documents. They rip out the content and you *must* use there style and you can't change anything. ie For chapter headings you must use "Heading 2" or whatever. So they use word as a dirty "xml" hack, which I find ironic.
One publisher didn't care what format it was in as long as you could print it out. It didn't need to even be photo ready. It turned out it was sent to a Korean company that retyped it up in something they used in there publishing pipeline.
As for short documents like the law firms produce a lot of short documents (yes i know some can be large), word/office is about is good as it gets if thats what they are set up for. But quite a lot of PhD students in the bio department find out how bad Word is for large documents, usually a few days out from printing.
I use tex, well latex all the time for almost anything I don't use plain old ascii for. But there is plenty of room for something better. Try creating your own document class and then you find some of its current limitations.
I will be happy to see Word with some better typesetting even if I don't use it. I am getting sick of slack and butt ugly notation in some papers/slides these days because of the crappy equation editor. You can spot a word authored manuscript from the moon.
Water has a density of 1000kg per meter^3. Air is 1Kg per meter^3. Water has a much higher heat capacity than air. Current systems go from CPU->Air->Water and you need a thermal gradient for each, not to mention that blasting cold air through a server wastes quite a lot of air. Cut out the air and 4000 times seems quite likely, but I can't be bothered running the numbers.
Why is that Adobes or another software firms problem? In fact why is that anyones problem accepts his/hers? You want free software for the poor now? Perhaps you should suggested this too your local social welfare representative along with free rent and free cars.
If you can't afford an apartment, stay at home or with family. If you can't afford a sports car, don't buy one. Its not the car manufactures fault. If you can't afford a 16 core 65Gb ram number crunching monster server, don't buy one, its not IBMs problem. If you can't afford the tuition fees for the university, don't go, its not the university problem. If you can't afford the software, well you get the point.. (I hope).
You are not entitled stuff just because you want it, or even because you "need" it. And need is a big stretch.
I think you misunderstand what the free in free market means.
Triple blind tests is when the statistician does not know who took the real drug. That way they don't know what subset of the patents should/should not show an effect. Even better use more than one statistician with randomized subsets of the data, and then they don't know if there should be any effect.
The problem is that if you give someone data and tell them here is group one and here is group two, they will analyze the data with that "prior". Tell them which one had the treatment and add salary dependence on the experimental outcome....
There are lies, dam lies and then theres statistics.
In any case, payment is only one issue -- perhaps the bigger issue is art that is locked up and unavailable to be used because the copyright holder cannot be found or is unwilling to allow his art to be reused, recycled, improved, altered, etc.?
I do believe its called the Tragedy of the anticommons. Even if the copyright holders can be found it is unworkable to get 10 different groups with 10 different lawyers to agree to anything. However a good deal of this problem can be differed with a more reasonable copyright term. Say 20 years or less.
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Yes you have a point. But this still does not make it the newspapers problem. Also in this case there is the criminal record. I don't know what the requirements are like in the US. But in New Zealand and much of the EU, you are required to disclose your criminal record to employers. So this would have been following him without google. In fact the offending article doesn't seem to come up in google at all.
...I'm sure you have much more serious reasons to be worried about "being fired on the spot" than whatever embarrassing-but-legal things you did in the distant past.
The context here is theft. Petty theft, but theft all the same, and he had stolen items on him when caught. Many people would not treat this as an embarrassment but take it as a serious issue that could make the company more liable if they person is in a position of trust (ie working with money).
This guy was arrested for petty theft. He had over $400 worth of stolen items on him at the time.
In New Zealand you are already not permitted to work at a bank or at a till in retail with such a record. There is no shortage of people who don't have such "history".
Were i live now, Austria, you are allowed to drink wine and beer at 16 and spirits at 18. You can go to night clubs till midnight when between 16-18. You can get a criminal record from 14. They did just change the age to vote to 16, but that was more of a political thing. They whole you should be allowed to act like a stupid teenager and get away with till your early 20's seems to be more an American thing.
If you are legally an adult that means, by definition, that you should face the consequences of your actions *and* resultant public record of those actions. The world does not need to bend to your lack of maturity considering a lot of other people in the same situation don't do such stupid things. The physical world is far less forgiving. Getting pregnant or crashing a car being an idiot is a common enough thing for younger people to do, and you are stuck with the results of that for the rest of your life.
Get a criminal record with theft in there is a record for life every country I have lived in. You are required to disclose your criminal record to any employer.
I have a 16 year old daughter that is allowed to go out night clubbing etc. I do not expect her not to do dumb things. But i expect her to take responsibility for them when she does.
Still, I would like that public institutions would think twice before (re-)publishing stories with names in them..
So archived newspapers (including microfiche), court reports etc all have to be "redone" now. This is public information that was published publicly, there is no expectation that it would become private after some time.
If our mistakes are serious enough to become a matter of public record... Then well its there for all to see.
Department of Public Safety officials have charged Kevin G. Vanginderen of 603 Winston Court Apartments with third degree burglary in connection with 10 incidents of petit larceny and five burglaires on campus over a period of a year. Safety reported recovering some $474 worth of stolen goods from him....
Or the guys with the cool plane on the front cover.
If you have to pick between someone that did a bunch of stupid stuff at university and someone who didn't, who are you going to pick? These are not kids we are talking about. They are 18+ years old. When the hell are they going to grow up and take responsibility for their own mistakes/actions?
That both parties can understand without paying 200 per hour for an "interpretation", yes I would. By the way there is no guarantee that the interpretation is correct and you don't have any recourse against the interpreter if the interpretation is wrong.
..Sun people are control freaks...
Its more of what cooperations tend to be like. Even when everyone likes the idea of open development etc. You still have n+1 PHB and lawyers to keep happy. Thats why a corporation "sponsoring" a OS projects tends to work, while a corporation leading a OS project tends to gain this "control freaks" reputation. Of course they may really be control freaks too.
I have heard MySQL is better now. But when we moved a ansi sql thing to MySQL we where pretty surprised by what was missing. Back then the free version only had table locking, which made mostly read type database fast. But read/write/update heavy performance was quite poor. Also I hope transaction support and foreign keys are there now.
Postgres had all these features and basically a just worked with everything, including the store procedures.
But as i said that was a while ago now. Anyway we are currently all Oracle atm. But we have both mysql and postgres (and HSQLDB). A good database is one you can replace easily with another good database.
I am in fact doing the same. I was the first to submit my article in latex to genetics. There where no serious problems and the proofs didn't have any more errors that others get.
So far I have not needed to convert anything to word... I dread the day.
All my home machines run slamd64. Its was great to get back to slack, with a totaly painless install even on the laptop (ooo-baan-toooo would even boot the install DVD/CD). I even have the wife and daughter using it. It has the best part of the Slackware experience. Its just works and keeps working.
Its all good.
Thank you!
This is not as clear as you might think. The advice I got was "while your not making money, we don't think its a problem" which covers things like ffmpeg etc. But if you make money-ie sell software for profit, the lawyers get very very twitchy and start making it pretty clear (ie in writing) that you are not following their legal advice on the matter.
I found it 1000x easier to learn latex. I still can't use word/OO. It keeps messing with the formating. I do a backspace and it jumps up 3 lines and sets itself back to Heading style 3 or whatever. And don't get me started about tables... Or math where you have lots of x^2 and things through the document.
In latex i just write, spell check, make, print.
Most math and physics journals don't take anything but latex. Period. And for good reason. I have seen people compromise notation to the point of unreadability because its hard to do proper math with the equation editor. Perhaps you should tell the journals that this is "absolutely unreasonable" since you won't be able to publish with word.
In biology quite a few journals only took word. But thats slowly changing.
I have worked with a few that take word documents. They rip out the content and you *must* use there style and you can't change anything. ie For chapter headings you must use "Heading 2" or whatever. So they use word as a dirty "xml" hack, which I find ironic.
One publisher didn't care what format it was in as long as you could print it out. It didn't need to even be photo ready. It turned out it was sent to a Korean company that retyped it up in something they used in there publishing pipeline.
As for short documents like the law firms produce a lot of short documents (yes i know some can be large), word/office is about is good as it gets if thats what they are set up for. But quite a lot of PhD students in the bio department find out how bad Word is for large documents, usually a few days out from printing.
I use tex, well latex all the time for almost anything I don't use plain old ascii for. But there is plenty of room for something better. Try creating your own document class and then you find some of its current limitations.
I will be happy to see Word with some better typesetting even if I don't use it. I am getting sick of slack and butt ugly notation in some papers/slides these days because of the crappy equation editor. You can spot a word authored manuscript from the moon.
Water has a density of 1000kg per meter^3. Air is 1Kg per meter^3. Water has a much higher heat capacity than air. Current systems go from CPU->Air->Water and you need a thermal gradient for each, not to mention that blasting cold air through a server wastes quite a lot of air. Cut out the air and 4000 times seems quite likely, but I can't be bothered running the numbers.
I meet a guy the other day that asked if I wanted to join Greenpeace, I declined and he then asked if I would join PETA!
I presume that makes him a sleazy-nut-cultist.
The best person to have power is someone who does not want it. Unfortunately these people are not on the candidate list.
Why is that Adobes or another software firms problem? In fact why is that anyones problem accepts his/hers? You want free software for the poor now? Perhaps you should suggested this too your local social welfare representative along with free rent and free cars.
If you can't afford an apartment, stay at home or with family. If you can't afford a sports car, don't buy one. Its not the car manufactures fault. If you can't afford a 16 core 65Gb ram number crunching monster server, don't buy one, its not IBMs problem. If you can't afford the tuition fees for the university, don't go, its not the university problem. If you can't afford the software, well you get the point.. (I hope).
You are not entitled stuff just because you want it, or even because you "need" it. And need is a big stretch.
I think you misunderstand what the free in free market means.
Slackware for the win!
Could never get the hang of that oooo-booon-tooo.
Triple blind tests is when the statistician does not know who took the real drug. That way they don't know what subset of the patents should/should not show an effect. Even better use more than one statistician with randomized subsets of the data, and then they don't know if there should be any effect.
The problem is that if you give someone data and tell them here is group one and here is group two, they will analyze the data with that "prior". Tell them which one had the treatment and add salary dependence on the experimental outcome....
There are lies, dam lies and then theres statistics.
The graphic design industry wasn't killed by the invention of printers, it was *created* by it.
And with a business model that is currently protected by copyright laws.
but still, lucky I'm a designer then.
In any case, payment is only one issue -- perhaps the bigger issue is art that is locked up and unavailable to be used because the copyright holder cannot be found or is unwilling to allow his art to be reused, recycled, improved, altered, etc.?
I do believe its called the Tragedy of the anticommons. Even if the copyright holders can be found it is unworkable to get 10 different groups with 10 different lawyers to agree to anything. However a good deal of this problem can be differed with a more reasonable copyright term. Say 20 years or less.