(e) This section does not apply to an emergency services professional using an electronic wireless communications device while operating an authorized emergency vehicle, as defined in Section 165, in the course and scope of his or her duties.
Not sure about FL, but it's difficult to believe that CA cops get an exemption that FL cops don't.
They can ask once. After that, I'll set my phone in my pocket to record before going in to a private meeting.
In many states, you will have committed a felony by doing so. It is, in many jurisdictions, illegal to record a conversation without informing the other party. If you think that, because the other party is asking you to do something illegal, that you are off the hook, you are incorrect.
I knew someone who did as you suggest you will do. The supervisor that was asking the person doing the recording to do something wrong got a reprimand but is still employed. The person doing the recording lost their job and pension in return for their mutual employer asking the DA not to press charges.
So given that at least one of the examples is hardly a shining example of recent Republican opposition to monopolies, forgive me if I don't spend a lot of time looking up the others.
And climate change doesn't destroy climate globally anyway, it just changes it around. We'll likely end up with more arable land overall long term under the most severe climate change scenarios, even if the transition is more disruptive.
Aside from any consideration of the geological time scales it takes to turn tundra into topsoil, climate change is not going to change the length of growing seasons or daily sunlight. Stupid plants, insisting on not growing in the dark.
Why should a company ignore self-serve kiosks - which get cheaper with time - when confronted with employees who demand to get more expensive with time?
Of course, then you have their "1 size fit all, basically random depending on who does the interview" interview process to go through, so it may not be worth the trouble, unless you're feeling lucky.
No wonder they have such a small sample. After the informed consent form I'm sure lots of people told the researchers to gtfo.
If you had C. diff, you'd be doing everything including licking doorknobs at a urgent care clinic to try to get some healthy gut bacteria back.
I'm guessing they had people lined up and turned away for the study. Except they'd have to have their friends line up, because if you have C. diff, you can't wait in a line. For anything. Including the toilet.
Also, could an MD please provide the usual time frame in which diarrhea runs its course? 8 weeks being an improvement sounds just weird.
C. diff doesn't go away by itself. Antibiotics, if they work, work by killing everything off in your gut (again - because lots of times, you're going to have to do multiple rounds of ABs), then just hoping that other bacteria get back in there before the C. diff re-establishes itself. Else repeat, until the subject dies.
IAAD, BNTKOD*, but for some reason I know way more about this than I ever wanted to.
Most science professors don't know what is involved in commercial work, don't know the relevant skills for commercial work, and don't have a network for landing jobs for students in industry. There are far too many professors who don't know how to train their students for anything other than academic work, and some who are adamantly against training their students for jobs outside of academia.
And they shouldn't. I'm a scientist too. When I came out of school, into industry (not that long ago! I worked in industry before going back to get my graduate degrees, and after), there was an expectation that industry was going to spend a couple of years training one how to work in industry. Industry doesn't do that anymore. Expecting professors to both train people to work in industry, and do cutting-edge research is unrealistic. Especially since they likely haven't themselves - you don't get tenure by going off and working in industry.
The model is broken, but it's broken on both sides. Too many people get accepted into grad school, and industry is no longer willing to train people to be useful. Which is not the job of university either. It can't be all on one side.
It's law enforcement that's pushing so hard for these kill switches.
Right now I can walk into a T-Mobile store, buy an iPhone with cash, pay the first month with cash, and get a burner smartphone with a data plan. No ID, no name, no address, no credit check.
If this law is implemented, the ability to buy a smartphone anonymously goes away. You'll have to show an ID. For this law. How else will they know whether you're the person who can request that that phone be bricked?
This isn't about theft, the police don't give a shit about theft. If you don't believe that, try reporting one. This is about removing the anonymity of burner phones.
If a doctor recommended surgery, and the mortality rate was 1 in 4000, I'd make damn sure the benefits outweighed the risk. And I'd update my will.
That's right in the ballpark for general anesthesia by itself. When I signed the release form, it said 1 in 2000, but then they knocked me out (yay, propofol), so my memory might be faulty:)
Relative risks of common events is something people are just not good at estimating.
But outside the big cities, which comprise less than 2% of the land area of the US, there are lots of use cases for a flying car.
Unfortunately for flying car manufacturers, big cities are where most of the population lives, and where most of the wealth is concentrated. If most people in the US can't use them, and the rest can't afford them, market forces work against a flying car being affordable.
While I'm not the biggest fan of ST, I'm not aware of any prank publications in a refereed physics journal, and neither are the first three pages of a search.
I have heard of this first hand. Plug in a USB device to see who to return it to, and not long after, security (computer and otherwise) pay you a visit to personally demonstrate the computer security policies you were supposed to learn from the online video training.
Not detracting from what the colonists did, but they knew that they only needed to pack enough food and water for the voyage and the settlement time, plus the knowledge they could breath was an additional bonus.
And they also didn't require many billions of dollars of taxpayer funding to support their one-way trip - they paid their own way.
If someone wants to build a rocket to Mars in their backyard using their own funding, then go ahead, and any ethical considerations are your own, with the caveat that local and federal prosecutors might have different opinions than yours.
That said, another analogy is that we don't allow institutions to perform medical experiments on people that will cause harm to them, even if they volunteer with full knowledge of the consequences. We, as a society, consider this to be immoral.
While I know that society often puts people in positions where harm might very well occur (test pilots, astronauts, medical procedures), the usual assumption is that every effort will be made to prevent harm. I'm struggling to discern how this is different.
It may be - it's just with two minutes thought, I'm not able to articulate why it's ok to kill an astronaut on a one-way mission and it isn't to kill a person in a medical experiment that might well save lives. Because in the latter case, it's definitely something society has decided not to allow.
you can bet they have to notify the people who maintain the no-fly list.
I would not bet that - the FBI couldn't find me once when it was a simple matter of looking up my name in a phonebook, back when those were still a thing. As I said, incompetence and stupidity abound, as they do in any bureacratic organization.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that legal name changes are (or are not) monitored by TLAs - either way. But I wouldn't bet the success of my plan to take over the world on the lack of it.
Since 2003, it is not so easy to change your name anymore. While in the US, for the most part, you can simply use any name you want, if you want a new passport, you'll have to go before a judge and it's going to cost you about a grand.
Having dealt with various TLAs, it's not difficult for me to believe that they don't have any monitoring system in place for this - incompetence, ignorance, and stupidity abound. On other hand, if I had evil intent in mind and didn't want to get caught, I don't think I'd want to risk triggering this. Far easier to use a mispelled version of your name...
'95-ish? That's the first meeting I remember where there was a realistic attempt to propose something to NASA. I don't think there wasn't much research funding before that. Not that long a history.
Mostly the cost estimates have gone up, especially after the scrutiny brought by JWST overruns brought more honest costing. It was always going to be a flagship mission. We could debate whether eLISA is actually going to save that much money over the combined US/ESA LISA proposed in Astro2010, which we cast as the sweet spot of science per dollar.
And as far as eLISA and 2034, well, I ain't holding my breath for funding profiles that far in the future. Actuarially, it's unlikely that it'll fly in my lifetime (scientifically, and otherwise). So for me, not better than nothing.
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In California, you'd be wrong. There is an explicit exemption for police to text and drive. http://laist.com/2014/08/27/da_wont_charge_deputy_who_hit_napst.php
CA Vehicle Code section 23123.5:
Not sure about FL, but it's difficult to believe that CA cops get an exemption that FL cops don't.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/02/18/0239259/russian-man-extradited-to-us-for-heartland-dow-jones-cyberattacks. The US seems more than willing to extradite and try someone from a foreign country for hacking US computers. It seems likely the US has an extradition treaty with the Netherlands. It seems likely the Netherlands has laws against hacking computers.
In many states, you will have committed a felony by doing so. It is, in many jurisdictions, illegal to record a conversation without informing the other party. If you think that, because the other party is asking you to do something illegal, that you are off the hook, you are incorrect.
I knew someone who did as you suggest you will do. The supervisor that was asking the person doing the recording to do something wrong got a reprimand but is still employed. The person doing the recording lost their job and pension in return for their mutual employer asking the DA not to press charges.
Terabeam Networks, c. 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabeam
And they weren't the first.
Me too, except Charter and not free.
I miss the good old days of hosting my domain, but I don't miss configuring sendmail.
Your own link hardly supports this. This action was initiated under the Clinton DOJ. On June 7, 2000, the court ordered a breakup of Microsoft as its remedy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.#Judgment
In November 2001, the Bush DOJ settled with Microsoft in what was widely considered to be a slap on the wrist, and opposed by nine states and the District of Columbia as inadequate.
So given that at least one of the examples is hardly a shining example of recent Republican opposition to monopolies, forgive me if I don't spend a lot of time looking up the others.
Aside from any consideration of the geological time scales it takes to turn tundra into topsoil, climate change is not going to change the length of growing seasons or daily sunlight. Stupid plants, insisting on not growing in the dark.
Because someone has to buy your product.
I see what you did there. Well played, sir.
If you had C. diff, you'd be doing everything including licking doorknobs at a urgent care clinic to try to get some healthy gut bacteria back.
I'm guessing they had people lined up and turned away for the study. Except they'd have to have their friends line up, because if you have C. diff, you can't wait in a line. For anything. Including the toilet.
C. diff doesn't go away by itself. Antibiotics, if they work, work by killing everything off in your gut (again - because lots of times, you're going to have to do multiple rounds of ABs), then just hoping that other bacteria get back in there before the C. diff re-establishes itself. Else repeat, until the subject dies.
IAAD, BNTKOD*, but for some reason I know way more about this than I ever wanted to.
*I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor
And they shouldn't. I'm a scientist too. When I came out of school, into industry (not that long ago! I worked in industry before going back to get my graduate degrees, and after), there was an expectation that industry was going to spend a couple of years training one how to work in industry. Industry doesn't do that anymore. Expecting professors to both train people to work in industry, and do cutting-edge research is unrealistic. Especially since they likely haven't themselves - you don't get tenure by going off and working in industry.
The model is broken, but it's broken on both sides. Too many people get accepted into grad school, and industry is no longer willing to train people to be useful. Which is not the job of university either. It can't be all on one side.
But that's not the way to bet.
Especially if you're not an expert in the field.
The funniest thing is that you posted as AC.
Is that you, ghost of Henny Youngman?
Or rather lack thereof.
Right now I can walk into a T-Mobile store, buy an iPhone with cash, pay the first month with cash, and get a burner smartphone with a data plan. No ID, no name, no address, no credit check.
If this law is implemented, the ability to buy a smartphone anonymously goes away. You'll have to show an ID. For this law. How else will they know whether you're the person who can request that that phone be bricked?
This isn't about theft, the police don't give a shit about theft. If you don't believe that, try reporting one. This is about removing the anonymity of burner phones.
That's right in the ballpark for general anesthesia by itself. When I signed the release form, it said 1 in 2000, but then they knocked me out (yay, propofol), so my memory might be faulty :)
Relative risks of common events is something people are just not good at estimating.
Unfortunately for flying car manufacturers, big cities are where most of the population lives, and where most of the wealth is concentrated. If most people in the US can't use them, and the rest can't afford them, market forces work against a flying car being affordable.
Are you referring to Sokal? http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html/
That wasn't published in a string theory journal.
While I'm not the biggest fan of ST, I'm not aware of any prank publications in a refereed physics journal, and neither are the first three pages of a search.
I have heard of this first hand. Plug in a USB device to see who to return it to, and not long after, security (computer and otherwise) pay you a visit to personally demonstrate the computer security policies you were supposed to learn from the online video training.
The physicists knew that from the beginning.
I mind.
And they also didn't require many billions of dollars of taxpayer funding to support their one-way trip - they paid their own way.
If someone wants to build a rocket to Mars in their backyard using their own funding, then go ahead, and any ethical considerations are your own, with the caveat that local and federal prosecutors might have different opinions than yours.
That said, another analogy is that we don't allow institutions to perform medical experiments on people that will cause harm to them, even if they volunteer with full knowledge of the consequences. We, as a society, consider this to be immoral.
While I know that society often puts people in positions where harm might very well occur (test pilots, astronauts, medical procedures), the usual assumption is that every effort will be made to prevent harm. I'm struggling to discern how this is different.
It may be - it's just with two minutes thought, I'm not able to articulate why it's ok to kill an astronaut on a one-way mission and it isn't to kill a person in a medical experiment that might well save lives. Because in the latter case, it's definitely something society has decided not to allow.
Things have changed in the decade-plus since 2003, AC. Since the Patriot Act. And court filing fees have certainly gone up.
I would not bet that - the FBI couldn't find me once when it was a simple matter of looking up my name in a phonebook, back when those were still a thing. As I said, incompetence and stupidity abound, as they do in any bureacratic organization.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that legal name changes are (or are not) monitored by TLAs - either way. But I wouldn't bet the success of my plan to take over the world on the lack of it.
Since 2003, it is not so easy to change your name anymore. While in the US, for the most part, you can simply use any name you want, if you want a new passport, you'll have to go before a judge and it's going to cost you about a grand.
Having dealt with various TLAs, it's not difficult for me to believe that they don't have any monitoring system in place for this - incompetence, ignorance, and stupidity abound. On other hand, if I had evil intent in mind and didn't want to get caught, I don't think I'd want to risk triggering this. Far easier to use a mispelled version of your name...
'95-ish? That's the first meeting I remember where there was a realistic attempt to propose something to NASA. I don't think there wasn't much research funding before that. Not that long a history.
Mostly the cost estimates have gone up, especially after the scrutiny brought by JWST overruns brought more honest costing. It was always going to be a flagship mission. We could debate whether eLISA is actually going to save that much money over the combined US/ESA LISA proposed in Astro2010, which we cast as the sweet spot of science per dollar.
And as far as eLISA and 2034, well, I ain't holding my breath for funding profiles that far in the future. Actuarially, it's unlikely that it'll fly in my lifetime (scientifically, and otherwise). So for me, not better than nothing.