Her views on the issue are very in line with mine. The real problem I see is that the pharmaceutical companies can't exactly be trusted to be honest about what is and isn't known about the side effects of their drugs making informed consent impossible.
People CAN make the choice to try untested drugs by entering trials. I think the real advantage of government intervention here is forcing the companies to provide the necessary data for informed consent.
While I don't doubt that pharmaceutical regulation has killed vast numbers of people it likely has also saved vast numbers of people as well. Sure, if someone is condemned to death, let them take whatever the hell they want to try. What if they have chronic pain? Just let them take some new wonder drug without testing whether or not it kills people first? Situations like this are where lives are saved at the sacrifice of comfort.
Full disclosure: My wife has chronic pain so I'm not completely detached from this issue. I still wouldn't want her taking drugs with unknown side effects.
Your structured degree was not intended to cover file-permissions in depth. You got a CS degree not an IS degree. You probably learned things like finite state automata, graphs, trees, etc...
Those are the things that a lot of self-taught people in CS don't have any knowledge of but are extremely useful when designing algorithms.
As a side note, I think some people put to much emphasis on creative. Just because something is new, doesn't mean it is good. New Coke was creative, it was new, it was different. You want a bottle?
This isn't really arguing against your point but a lot of people find it interesting. In blind taste tests people actually preferred New Coke. It was really failure due to the enormous momentum of original Coke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Market_research
In my experience hiring people 10 minutes isn't nearly enough time to deduce if someone knows what they are talking about. Plenty of people can talk a good game by studying up on theory before the interview. Relatively simple coding problems is enough to determine if they know what they are talking about but these take about 20 minutes from a good candidate.
I've crafted many simple problems for interviews and a vast majority of people fail to make the progress I would expect from a second year undergrad in Comp. Sci. One candidate even told me that he was shocked when I asked him to code. He was only expecting questions on theory and did all his brushing up there.
Your analogy handles the unencrypted aspect of this case but not the SSID. If you leave the door unlocked with a big sign pointing to it saying "This door is open" I'm not sure you could reasonably expect people to stay away.
Why would you broadcast the fact that the door is open if you don't want people to use it?
Actually the big problem is that researchers can't agree on a definition for species. Different organisms have different usable definitions of species. For example, bacteria don't mate but they surely have more than one species.
Similarly, a chihuahua and a great dane can't naturally mate due to the massive difference in size but they can produce offspring so where does that leave them?
But you would care if a pixel was 0xFFFFFF instead of 0x7FFFFF. These are still just one bit different and if the noise happened frequently enough it would be extremely annoying.
If your CPU load is only 60% do you really need more power? I frequently top out at 100% and definitely need more power to handle those peaks. A CPU load of 60% doesn't show that same need though. Obviously this is just a snapshot in time and you may very well hit 100% frequently too.
If you read the summary you would have noticed the line
"Instead of setting efficiency targets and letting engineers decide how they can best meet them, the amendments specify types of cooling systems that companies should use
So prescriptive means they don't like the government telling them HOW to save energy.
Our solution to this conundrum is to have people solve a simplified version of problems actually relevant to our company. We take real problems we've run across, simplify them, and ask the candidate to come up with and code a solution.
The question wasn't whether or not there is precedent here but whether or not they should be summarily executed. There are arguments for both sides but the fact that we executed people in the past doesn't mean it is the right thing to do today.
Ebooks are already cheaper than hardcover books. The boat I am in, and many others I am sure, is that we would like them cheaper than paperbacks (once paperback is available). I never buy hardcover books so an ebook reader plus the cost of books would be significantly more expensive for me than just buying the books in the first place.
I agree fully with that sentiment. I have the same viewpoint on global warming. I'm not convinced that it's necessarily such a dire situation but it's not something I'd be willing to gamble on either. The risks are too great for the relatively little gain we get by ignoring the possibility.
While the study may have shown negative results at a limit less than the legal limit this really doesn't show anything regarding humans. Frogs spend much more time in and around water than humans do. Obviously our anatomies are completely different.
I have no doubt that Atrazine has all sorts of downsides this study really doesn't show whether or not the legal limit is safe or not.
You don't need to organize at all for an LLC or corp. I formed an LLC with a total investment of about $100. A corp can also be formed by a single person but there's a lot more formality required to this.
The real benefit of doing this is just to protect yourself in case you get sued. I know many people that formed an LLC purely for asset protection and since then do whatever they want (create products).
If you do get sued into oblivion operating this way then all you have to lose is the business and its assets. With an LLC you can easily keep these losses quite small. I say again, if you can't afford what is really a very small monetary and time investment to protect yourself then you shouldn't be starting a business.
Well, not that I trust psychiatrists that much but I guess the only thing this is telling me is that marijuana really isn't the brain destroying demon they've made it out to be. Doesn't really convince me that email rots my brain.
Just to play devil's advocate regarding this point. Pot had an immediate 4 point drop while high. There may be cumulative effects that add up over time that lead to a permanent x point drop plus the 4 point drop immediately after smoking marijuana.
Personally I don't think marijuana is bad at all but I just thought I'd throw this out there.
I doubt the NSA has beet computer experts than Google but I would guess that while the security experts at each institution are top notch the NSA has a lot more of them than Google.
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Her views on the issue are very in line with mine. The real problem I see is that the pharmaceutical companies can't exactly be trusted to be honest about what is and isn't known about the side effects of their drugs making informed consent impossible.
People CAN make the choice to try untested drugs by entering trials. I think the real advantage of government intervention here is forcing the companies to provide the necessary data for informed consent.
Full disclosure: My wife has chronic pain so I'm not completely detached from this issue. I still wouldn't want her taking drugs with unknown side effects.
Your structured degree was not intended to cover file-permissions in depth. You got a CS degree not an IS degree. You probably learned things like finite state automata, graphs, trees, etc... Those are the things that a lot of self-taught people in CS don't have any knowledge of but are extremely useful when designing algorithms.
So? He knows what he is talking about.
As a side note, I think some people put to much emphasis on creative. Just because something is new, doesn't mean it is good. New Coke was creative, it was new, it was different. You want a bottle?
This isn't really arguing against your point but a lot of people find it interesting. In blind taste tests people actually preferred New Coke. It was really failure due to the enormous momentum of original Coke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Market_research
So should we have different words for male and female heterosexuals too?
In my experience hiring people 10 minutes isn't nearly enough time to deduce if someone knows what they are talking about. Plenty of people can talk a good game by studying up on theory before the interview. Relatively simple coding problems is enough to determine if they know what they are talking about but these take about 20 minutes from a good candidate.
I've crafted many simple problems for interviews and a vast majority of people fail to make the progress I would expect from a second year undergrad in Comp. Sci. One candidate even told me that he was shocked when I asked him to code. He was only expecting questions on theory and did all his brushing up there.
Your analogy handles the unencrypted aspect of this case but not the SSID. If you leave the door unlocked with a big sign pointing to it saying "This door is open" I'm not sure you could reasonably expect people to stay away. Why would you broadcast the fact that the door is open if you don't want people to use it?
I love that this is insightful and not funny
Actually the big problem is that researchers can't agree on a definition for species. Different organisms have different usable definitions of species. For example, bacteria don't mate but they surely have more than one species. Similarly, a chihuahua and a great dane can't naturally mate due to the massive difference in size but they can produce offspring so where does that leave them?
But you would care if a pixel was 0xFFFFFF instead of 0x7FFFFF. These are still just one bit different and if the noise happened frequently enough it would be extremely annoying.
And they're amazingly good. I grab one every time I head back to Rochester to visit my family.
Nonsense. We'll just build more universes
If your CPU load is only 60% do you really need more power? I frequently top out at 100% and definitely need more power to handle those peaks. A CPU load of 60% doesn't show that same need though. Obviously this is just a snapshot in time and you may very well hit 100% frequently too.
"Instead of setting efficiency targets and letting engineers decide how they can best meet them, the amendments specify types of cooling systems that companies should use
So prescriptive means they don't like the government telling them HOW to save energy.
Our solution to this conundrum is to have people solve a simplified version of problems actually relevant to our company. We take real problems we've run across, simplify them, and ask the candidate to come up with and code a solution.
The idea behind the ear pieces is to keep them in your ear so you're not fumbling around when you get a call...
The question wasn't whether or not there is precedent here but whether or not they should be summarily executed. There are arguments for both sides but the fact that we executed people in the past doesn't mean it is the right thing to do today.
Ebooks are already cheaper than hardcover books. The boat I am in, and many others I am sure, is that we would like them cheaper than paperbacks (once paperback is available). I never buy hardcover books so an ebook reader plus the cost of books would be significantly more expensive for me than just buying the books in the first place.
I agree fully with that sentiment. I have the same viewpoint on global warming. I'm not convinced that it's necessarily such a dire situation but it's not something I'd be willing to gamble on either. The risks are too great for the relatively little gain we get by ignoring the possibility.
While the study may have shown negative results at a limit less than the legal limit this really doesn't show anything regarding humans. Frogs spend much more time in and around water than humans do. Obviously our anatomies are completely different. I have no doubt that Atrazine has all sorts of downsides this study really doesn't show whether or not the legal limit is safe or not.
The real benefit of doing this is just to protect yourself in case you get sued. I know many people that formed an LLC purely for asset protection and since then do whatever they want (create products).
If you do get sued into oblivion operating this way then all you have to lose is the business and its assets. With an LLC you can easily keep these losses quite small. I say again, if you can't afford what is really a very small monetary and time investment to protect yourself then you shouldn't be starting a business.
Exactly. If you can't cross that barrier to entry you really shouldn't be starting a business in the first place.
Well, not that I trust psychiatrists that much but I guess the only thing this is telling me is that marijuana really isn't the brain destroying demon they've made it out to be. Doesn't really convince me that email rots my brain.
Just to play devil's advocate regarding this point. Pot had an immediate 4 point drop while high. There may be cumulative effects that add up over time that lead to a permanent x point drop plus the 4 point drop immediately after smoking marijuana.
Personally I don't think marijuana is bad at all but I just thought I'd throw this out there.
Luckily those kind of deals take time.. enough time for me to get the hell our of dodge.
I doubt the NSA has beet computer experts than Google but I would guess that while the security experts at each institution are top notch the NSA has a lot more of them than Google.