Yet there are people who would panic under that sort of pressure and lock up, or draw a blank. People do it in tests which are by far and away more relaxed than an 'interrogation' in an office.
I did poorly on one test. Noticing this, I studied hard and greatly improved my grade in the next test. Would this flag up a warning that I'm a cheater?
Or for that matter, doing better on the 'harder' questions. Perhaps I decided to concentrate on doing those questions because they offered higher marks than the easier questions, or because I had a natural aptitude for some elements. I may have elected to study those materials harder.
Professors can't rely solely on 'statistical anomalies'. Illogical patterns may well have an explanation that has nothing at all to do with cheating or advanced knowledge of the test. Of course, we all know just how lazy a minority of our lecturers are.... and how likely they'd be to take the word of this agency as gospel.
IIRC all crime statistics are public knowledge anyway. If a person is convicted of a crime, this is recorded and this record is made available to the public.
It wouldn't be impossible to establish a 'registry of serious criminals' using only scannings on newspaper articles and the like. The data is already public, it just needs to be collated together.
Of course, I know I'm being simplistic... there's a lot more to it than that, but I don't want to right an essay on the implimentation, merely point out that it is possible.
Showed this to a brewer with Diageo at their St. James gate plant.... he lolled. Oxygen might prevent a hangover... it'll prevent you from bloody drinking by spoiling your pint.
I tried it, and found it still has some irritating issues. For one thing, proxy settings don't work right, which is a real pain in the butt for those of us in a university. I know it's beta software, but that's still a pretty nasty issue, and has been commented on on their forums already.
Otherwise, it seems to be quite nice. I like the new UI, newsgroups and mail features, but I haven't been using it near enough to get beyond that.
It's pretty interesting. You can see the countries with the largest botnets in the log... which also seems to suggest that a large majority of the packets are coming from the one botnet... since a good number of them kick in at the same time.
I have, on more than one occasion, been referred to as a future award winner. Given how epically my attempt at a 3-phase mains-powered coilgun failed... I feel they may be right.
At least I'll win something in my life. Even if it takes my life to win it.
From an Irish Slashdotter, I think it's only fair to say. I apologise most unreservedly to the world for not flushing this floater when we had the chance.
My first computer was an Amiga 500. It was 1991. I was 4. It was the most amazing machine on the planet. I could draw pictures on it. I could play Thomas the Tank Engine. I could even make it say things out loud.
We only got rid of it, when the video chip fried itself. It was better than the Mac in it's day. Too bad it's almost gone.
This is pretty much the truth. Rather than do it properly and risk getting shat on by an irritated electorate who would vote 'No' for no reason other than to spite the Government, they just made bad law that'll never be enforced, except when somebody in the Cult of Scientology finds out about it, and seeks to abuse it.
If it was ever all laid out, this site would actually be a pretty interesting resource for future historians. Of course, that depends on future historians being able to read whatever formats the site is stored in.
Anybody remember the Domesday Book project in Britain from the 80's being digitised into a 'permanent' format, that was obsolete a decade later.?
For a company that believes so strongly in the inviolability of Software licensing, it's nice to see them practice what they preach when it comes to the rights of others. Fair play to Microsoft for meeting it's requirements, and score one for the GPL and Open Source.
That it is life. I've said it before so I won't reiterate with a long post, but if there's life on Mars, that proves life isn't just unique to Earth. This planet isn't a fluke. If there's life on Mars, then it can be *anywhere*
Spammers on a worksafe imageboard I occasionally visit sometimes upload it to the place. I report it to the board's administrator via IRC....which is logged... and purge private history. It is such an easy thing to have happen. Hell, a google search with safesearch off can do it.
This is 'won't somebody please think of the children' gone way to far.
And the public defender encouraging him to plead guilty? That lawyer should be fired for incompetance. How can someone be guilty of a crime they never had any intention of committing, and took active steps to actually avoid committing it?
I mean... I've bought second-hand HDD's that have been zeroe'd and formatted. Could I be potentially liable if the previous owner had been a kiddie-porn freako? The images might still be buried deep in the disk after all.
I was discouraged from doing it long before posting that comment because I know it'll be a pain to do. The only way it could be done is, initially, as a free-time hobby. It's not something to be done for commercial or technical intent.... there's no way in hell you'd make money off it.
I was looking at Linux, and wondering how long before something like that comes out of left field, before someone posts on some gaming forum "Hey, I knocked up this ruleset in my spare time as a hobby" with a link to a PDF file. Of course, then I remember that Linux itself doesn't really have that big of a mindshare....
It is *possible* to do, that's all I wanted to say... I never said It wouldn't be a metric fucktonne of work.
It could still be done, mind. Hardest part is having stuff to playtest with alright, because there's a need two full armies at least to do it. Which is more work.
If there was a need to get just a rulesset working, maybe a simple compatibility layer so "another miniatures company's" large selection of army books can work with the system. It wouldn't be perfect, and that in itself would never be distributable, but it'd work to get the rules right. Once the rules were right, then add the background. Let others add background and races... and anything that meets the standards demanded (And isn't a knockoff of GW's IP) gets the holy penguin pee treatment.
Thing is... it sounds easy on paper.... but it really would be a hell of a lot of work.
How long before somebody finally gets frustrated and motivated enough a GNU project for wargames? Call it OpenWarfare, and start with the basic Tenant of the Free Earth Federation,-v- The Corporate Aquilan Empire. Then build from there. All the IP is open, the ruleset is open and independent of any miniatures line. If anybody wants to add to the IP pool,. they can... provided they allow others to make changes. If anybody wants to sell compatible miniatures, they can. Sourcebooks.... Even build their own proprietary IP universe on top of the ruleset if they want.
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Jaysus sake, the IMF are taking even the feckin' clouds away now.
Yet there are people who would panic under that sort of pressure and lock up, or draw a blank. People do it in tests which are by far and away more relaxed than an 'interrogation' in an office.
Which is I'd imagine something along the lines of "We have evidence here that you cheated... prove to us that you didn't or else".
The natural question would be How?
And yet, there will also be false positives.
I did poorly on one test. Noticing this, I studied hard and greatly improved my grade in the next test. Would this flag up a warning that I'm a cheater?
Or for that matter, doing better on the 'harder' questions. Perhaps I decided to concentrate on doing those questions because they offered higher marks than the easier questions, or because I had a natural aptitude for some elements. I may have elected to study those materials harder.
Professors can't rely solely on 'statistical anomalies'. Illogical patterns may well have an explanation that has nothing at all to do with cheating or advanced knowledge of the test. Of course, we all know just how lazy a minority of our lecturers are.... and how likely they'd be to take the word of this agency as gospel.
The U.K.
Where 1984 is an aspiration, not a warning.
IIRC all crime statistics are public knowledge anyway. If a person is convicted of a crime, this is recorded and this record is made available to the public.
It wouldn't be impossible to establish a 'registry of serious criminals' using only scannings on newspaper articles and the like. The data is already public, it just needs to be collated together.
Of course, I know I'm being simplistic... there's a lot more to it than that, but I don't want to right an essay on the implimentation, merely point out that it is possible.
Yup
Showed this to a brewer with Diageo at their St. James gate plant.... he lolled. Oxygen might prevent a hangover... it'll prevent you from bloody drinking by spoiling your pint.
And the subsequent increase in piracy of this game will be blamed on DRM that wasn't draconian enough.
Meego?
The mobile OS from Yuggoth
I tried it, and found it still has some irritating issues. For one thing, proxy settings don't work right, which is a real pain in the butt for those of us in a university. I know it's beta software, but that's still a pretty nasty issue, and has been commented on on their forums already.
Otherwise, it seems to be quite nice. I like the new UI, newsgroups and mail features, but I haven't been using it near enough to get beyond that.
Or how declaring that Mary is not a virgin is technically a criminal offence in Ireland, but not wherever the server for slashdot is located.
How can people know what's legal/illegal in each and every bacwater community across a country as large as the US?
It's pretty interesting. You can see the countries with the largest botnets in the log... which also seems to suggest that a large majority of the packets are coming from the one botnet... since a good number of them kick in at the same time.
It also looks cool. Which is critical.
It's not evil, it's just business.
I have, on more than one occasion, been referred to as a future award winner. Given how epically my attempt at a 3-phase mains-powered coilgun failed... I feel they may be right.
At least I'll win something in my life. Even if it takes my life to win it.
From an Irish Slashdotter, I think it's only fair to say. I apologise most unreservedly to the world for not flushing this floater when we had the chance.
My first computer was an Amiga 500. It was 1991. I was 4. It was the most amazing machine on the planet. I could draw pictures on it. I could play Thomas the Tank Engine. I could even make it say things out loud.
We only got rid of it, when the video chip fried itself. It was better than the Mac in it's day. Too bad it's almost gone.
This is pretty much the truth. Rather than do it properly and risk getting shat on by an irritated electorate who would vote 'No' for no reason other than to spite the Government, they just made bad law that'll never be enforced, except when somebody in the Cult of Scientology finds out about it, and seeks to abuse it.
From a new user.
Here's to the next 100k.
If it was ever all laid out, this site would actually be a pretty interesting resource for future historians. Of course, that depends on future historians being able to read whatever formats the site is stored in.
Anybody remember the Domesday Book project in Britain from the 80's being digitised into a 'permanent' format, that was obsolete a decade later.?
Anyway, kudos.
For a company that believes so strongly in the inviolability of Software licensing, it's nice to see them practice what they preach when it comes to the rights of others. Fair play to Microsoft for meeting it's requirements, and score one for the GPL and Open Source.
Yes, but are we any closer to using it to shoot pigeons?
That it is life. I've said it before so I won't reiterate with a long post, but if there's life on Mars, that proves life isn't just unique to Earth. This planet isn't a fluke. If there's life on Mars, then it can be *anywhere*
What an amazing thing that would be.
Almost as good as the BBC TV series...
Spammers on a worksafe imageboard I occasionally visit sometimes upload it to the place. I report it to the board's administrator via IRC....which is logged... and purge private history. It is such an easy thing to have happen. Hell, a google search with safesearch off can do it.
This is 'won't somebody please think of the children' gone way to far.
And the public defender encouraging him to plead guilty? That lawyer should be fired for incompetance. How can someone be guilty of a crime they never had any intention of committing, and took active steps to actually avoid committing it?
I mean... I've bought second-hand HDD's that have been zeroe'd and formatted. Could I be potentially liable if the previous owner had been a kiddie-porn freako? The images might still be buried deep in the disk after all.
I was discouraged from doing it long before posting that comment because I know it'll be a pain to do. The only way it could be done is, initially, as a free-time hobby. It's not something to be done for commercial or technical intent.... there's no way in hell you'd make money off it.
I was looking at Linux, and wondering how long before something like that comes out of left field, before someone posts on some gaming forum "Hey, I knocked up this ruleset in my spare time as a hobby" with a link to a PDF file. Of course, then I remember that Linux itself doesn't really have that big of a mindshare....
It is *possible* to do, that's all I wanted to say... I never said It wouldn't be a metric fucktonne of work.
It could still be done, mind. Hardest part is having stuff to playtest with alright, because there's a need two full armies at least to do it. Which is more work.
If there was a need to get just a rulesset working, maybe a simple compatibility layer so "another miniatures company's" large selection of army books can work with the system. It wouldn't be perfect, and that in itself would never be distributable, but it'd work to get the rules right. Once the rules were right, then add the background. Let others add background and races... and anything that meets the standards demanded (And isn't a knockoff of GW's IP) gets the holy penguin pee treatment.
Thing is... it sounds easy on paper.... but it really would be a hell of a lot of work.
How long before somebody finally gets frustrated and motivated enough a GNU project for wargames? Call it OpenWarfare, and start with the basic Tenant of the Free Earth Federation,-v- The Corporate Aquilan Empire. Then build from there. All the IP is open, the ruleset is open and independent of any miniatures line. If anybody wants to add to the IP pool,. they can... provided they allow others to make changes. If anybody wants to sell compatible miniatures, they can. Sourcebooks.... Even build their own proprietary IP universe on top of the ruleset if they want.
How long?
Probably never, but it'd be a cool idea.
Damn... I might have to give it a go over Xmas.