>then next-generation eEyes could enable the blind to not just detect objects, but to see again normally.
Why stop at normally? Full zoom, magnifications, color-filtering, recording mode... All the stuff up front is nigh-trivial compared to the interface they are working on. Once you have an interface, the world is your oyster.
So your biology department is not allowed to bias decisions when hiring against potential faculty members who don't believe in the basic tenets of biology?
One of the sample plots in the article is a plot comparing the frequencies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. If you look at the plot, you'll notice that Lincoln has a nice uptick in name usage about 10 years before he was born.
If that's the problem, and the phones themselves costs >$500 anyways, why not just put a cellphone chip in each one? If you are in a crowded metropolis, or a car, the phone uses the cell system, if you are in the woods, it uses satellites. Boom! Phone that works nigh-everywhere all the time.
That's pretty buried. If I don't see what I'm looking for on the first page of results, I adjust my search terms, I don't click through to the second (of countless) page of results.
I wish people would stop this "Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard" = *No experience* nonsense.
The woman knows more about the constitution, how's it's been applied/ignored in the past, how the courts have dealt with it since the country was founded, and what's actually written in judicial opinions than most of the judges in the federal court system. One doesn't teach Constitutional Law at places like Chicago and Harvard without being at the top of the game. Hell, some of the students at these places come into classes knowing more constitutional law than most judges.
I know it's fashionable to write places like Harvard off as "the elitist left" and other such nonsense, but seriously, you don't teach there unless you are a major expert in the field. Saying she has no experience is just plain stupid.
I assume you've never sent a kid to school. They constantly come home with lists of required purchases. Tossing a laptop onto the list is a larger scale, but no different in spirit than requiring: 5 spiral bound notebooks, 2 sewn binding composition books, a hand-held pencil sharpener, 10 number 2 pencils, etc...
> I just love how people take random things (e.g. healthcare, social security, etc.) and start calling them rights. They're only rights if a greater > majority is willing to give up something for someone else to have them. Or a gov't mandates it, usually against the will of that majority.
The whole point of rights is that they are something that an individual can do, even if the majority doesn't want him to. The other part of rights is that the government doesn't give them. The only thing the government can do is take them away. No where in the US constitution does it give anyone the right to do anything. But it says in numerous places that the government shall not restrict some right, or the congress shall pass no law restricting some right, or some other right shall not be infringed... etc.
So yeah, all rights are just "random things" people started calling rights. The only real test of a right is whether or not you manage to keep it.
PS The constitution also says, " The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." So the founders were pretty darned clear that people had rights that were simply not listed, not thought of, or in the case of air travel, didn't yet exist.
It was an obscure 3rd party controller from overseas that, according to the article, Nintendo had no idea existed. The sheriff's office could barely track it down on the web it was so obscure.
"The team currently has to contact the copyright holder of every website it wants to archive and this process has just a 24 percent response rate."
Actually, I'd say they have almost a 100% response rate. They ask the copyright holder, "May I please have a copy of your content?" and in most cases, they receive a response within 500 milliseconds saying, "Sure! Here it is!"
The article and summary say the congressman will be "bound by contract to vote in Congress only as do his or her constituents online."
I'm pretty sure such a contract is unconstitutional (or at least, trying to enforce it would be unconstitutional, as congressmen may not be held accountable for anything they say or do in session (other than cases of treason or breaching the peace).
The moon is officially named (by the IAU) "Moon" The sun is similarly named "Sun". and Earth is named "Earth".
Terra, Luna, and Sol, are all of them names used only by people speaking other languages or reading Science Fiction. In English, the names "Sun", "Moon", and "Earth" are official.
I read the teaser from the article and laughed. I can't remember the last time someone joined my group who could type full English sentences without spelling mistakes, unless I knew them ahead of time.
Exactly. I was pricing memory for a spacecraft mission a year ago and things are just crazy when you have to make the stuff stand up to radiation, and vacuum and God knows what. The quote I heard, "You want to increase the spectrometer memory buffer from 100Meg to 300Meg? I hope you've got another $2Meg in your budget."
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You don't believe lottery winnings are taxed? Why would you think that? It's income, no?
Dude, a couple of hacker built a UAV that silently taps into cell phone conversations...
"If government was doing this..."
What on Earth makes you think that the army doesn't have this capability if a couple of guys at DefCon put it together in a few months?
>then next-generation eEyes could enable the blind to not just detect objects, but to see again normally.
Why stop at normally? Full zoom, magnifications, color-filtering, recording mode... All the stuff up front is nigh-trivial compared to the interface they are working on. Once you have an interface, the world is your oyster.
So your biology department is not allowed to bias decisions when hiring against potential faculty members who don't believe in the basic tenets of biology?
> 'More girls might get the impression that computer science is only advanced application use, which might turn them off to computer science.'
Substitute "students" for "girls" and you've got the actual problem. Thinking that it's only a problem for recruiting women into CS is a big mistake.
One of the sample plots in the article is a plot comparing the frequencies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. If you look at the plot, you'll notice that Lincoln has a nice uptick in name usage about 10 years before he was born.
If that's the problem, and the phones themselves costs >$500 anyways, why not just put a cellphone chip in each one? If you are in a crowded metropolis, or a car, the phone uses the cell system, if you are in the woods, it uses satellites. Boom! Phone that works nigh-everywhere all the time.
That's pretty buried. If I don't see what I'm looking for on the first page of results, I adjust my search terms, I don't click through to the second (of countless) page of results.
I wish people would stop this "Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard" = *No experience* nonsense.
The woman knows more about the constitution, how's it's been applied/ignored in the past, how the courts have dealt with it since the country was founded, and what's actually written in judicial opinions than most of the judges in the federal court system. One doesn't teach Constitutional Law at places like Chicago and Harvard without being at the top of the game. Hell, some of the students at these places come into classes knowing more constitutional law than most judges.
I know it's fashionable to write places like Harvard off as "the elitist left" and other such nonsense, but seriously, you don't teach there unless you are a major expert in the field. Saying she has no experience is just plain stupid.
I assume you've never sent a kid to school. They constantly come home with lists of required purchases. Tossing a laptop onto the list is a larger scale, but no different in spirit than requiring: 5 spiral bound notebooks, 2 sewn binding composition books, a hand-held pencil sharpener, 10 number 2 pencils, etc...
> I just love how people take random things (e.g. healthcare, social security, etc.) and start calling them rights. They're only rights if a greater
> majority is willing to give up something for someone else to have them. Or a gov't mandates it, usually against the will of that majority.
The whole point of rights is that they are something that an individual can do, even if the majority doesn't want him to. The other part of rights is that the government doesn't give them. The only thing the government can do is take them away. No where in the US constitution does it give anyone the right to do anything. But it says in numerous places that the government shall not restrict some right, or the congress shall pass no law restricting some right, or some other right shall not be infringed... etc.
So yeah, all rights are just "random things" people started calling rights. The only real test of a right is whether or not you manage to keep it.
PS The constitution also says, " The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." So the founders were pretty darned clear that people had rights that were simply not listed, not thought of, or in the case of air travel, didn't yet exist.
RTFA
It was an obscure 3rd party controller from overseas that, according to the article, Nintendo had no idea existed. The sheriff's office could barely track it down on the web it was so obscure.
From the article:
"The team currently has to contact the copyright holder of every website it wants to archive and this process has just a 24 percent response rate."
Actually, I'd say they have almost a 100% response rate. They ask the copyright holder, "May I please have a copy of your content?" and in most cases, they receive a response within 500 milliseconds saying, "Sure! Here it is!"
The article and summary say the congressman will be "bound by contract to vote in Congress only as do his or her constituents online."
I'm pretty sure such a contract is unconstitutional (or at least, trying to enforce it would be unconstitutional, as congressmen may not be held accountable for anything they say or do in session (other than cases of treason or breaching the peace).
I've got a Commodore 64 still in active service here at MIT. It provides the tracking control that keeps this telescope pointed at stars:
http://web.mit.edu/wallace/16Index.html
It might be inconvenient if you didn't back things up, but it's hardly a waste of money.
Once you buy a CD, when you lose it during a move or something, the store doesn't give you a new one. Nor should they.
The moon is officially named (by the IAU) "Moon"
The sun is similarly named "Sun".
and Earth is named "Earth".
Terra, Luna, and Sol, are all of them names used only by people speaking other languages or reading Science Fiction. In English, the names "Sun", "Moon", and "Earth" are official.
I read the teaser from the article and laughed. I can't remember the last time someone joined my group who could type full English sentences without spelling mistakes, unless I knew them ahead of time.
CUL8R F00lz!
I mean, really....
> Excell - this helps to run programs on your PC.
Who writes this trash! And why do they get paid more than I do!
Exactly. I was pricing memory for a spacecraft mission a year ago and things are just crazy when you have to make the stuff stand up to radiation, and vacuum and God knows what. The quote I heard, "You want to increase the spectrometer memory buffer from 100Meg to 300Meg? I hope you've got another $2Meg in your budget."