In the blessed United Kingdom, licences are extremely hard to come by - basically hand guns are outlawed entirely. So, no, get a licence, get a gun doesn't work. Not sure about Australia.
So you make sure you know the URL, or you keep the file away from prying eyes. As usual in IT the legislation is long out of date. Meanwhile of course sending the file to upstanding citizens could have some entertaining effects...
He SHOULD be enforcing such law, and if he were to do so in an election year when he's standing for higher office, it could do his poll ratings a LOT of good...
Which means that they will be subject to all sorts of pressures to be 'helpful' about it. Let's be clear ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, trusting any US produced hardware or software is a mistake if you want to be SECURE. That the tech firms haven't used this as excuse to move their domicile to somewhere with lower taxes as the real excuse for moving remains a surprise...
This seems a very soft target which perpetrators could hit at minimal risk. Of course that's not the style of this generation of terrorists - for which I guess we should be grateful.
As a Brit who enjoys the benefit of the NHS - which REALLY is free at the point of demand - I tend to forget just how messed up the US system is. If we spent the same proportion of our GDP on health as you do, it would give us an amazing service. We spend about half, and achieve about 95% of what you do.
You pay them one rate as contractors, more cash with limited benefits, or as employees, with less cash but more benefits. Given the need for start ups to employee people on highly variable contracts, and the existence of people for whom variability is acceptable, this can be worked out. Where the problem lies in the growing tendency of firms such as supermarkets to keep a stock of variable hours labour. The ideal is to have a civilised conversation about this whole area; the danger is that we lose the ability to grow new start ups cheaply.
Surely doctors have a duty of care to their patients that would include preventing this happening? Seems to me that a rather large class action suit might be out there soon...
There are a vast number of victims - of the order of hundreds or the low thousands. The cases dealt with so far have dealt far less than 100 perps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
I'm sorry to hear that you paid the price - and that's the reality that the VW engineers may have been facing, with the added problem that they might well struggle to get a new job in the industry if 'whispers' went round. We like to think that whistle blowers are protected - but it usually takes a long time to gain recompense if you are kicked by the big boys.
This is a match that does make sense; if you are a college student, you need evidence that you can produce worthwhile material. By producing open source software, you get a reputation that will make you seriously employable. Given you are going to work free anyway, you might as well produce something that is meaningful, as opposed to a piece of software which noone but your professor ever gets to see.
That really IS enough to iron out any random factors, meaning that the male / female difference is a real effect. Whether it is significant is a different debate, but it's at least proved what the anecdotes have long suggested.
The article refers to college administrations allowing this suppression of free speech until the courts smack them down. The solution therefore is to encourage exemplary damages against colleges that commit this restriction of political rights, with the board of governors of the institution being on the hook for some of it. Also given the ability of the FBI to charge Southern murderers with depriving people of their constitutional rights, this might also be pursued.
Beyond that we need to recognise that people who are unable to respond appropriately to challenging material are mentally ill; they would appear to be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Therefore the core analysis is whether a tertiary education facility is able to provide an environment for such people, or whether it is inconsistent with its primary role. You don't employ blind people as truck drivers; it is surely impossible to operate a college where free speech is not fully implemented. The next step beyond that is to argue that such institutions should be deprived of their charitable / tax free status because they are no longer able to offer high quality education.
The fingerprints of the NSA etc are all over this bill. The only question is whether we will ever discover how many of them were blackmailed into giving it their support. The scale of the vote however does suggest that there was a lot of pressure being exerted.
The phrase 'deep state' was invented to refer to the intelligence community in Turkey that used to have enormous influence in the running of that country. However it is a term which present experience shows it may be more applicable to the US than is nice to think about.
The security was so bad that a boy could defeat it. Worth making fun of the ignoramus in charge of TalkTalk IT security for this. OTOH, we nerds know that teenagers are DANGEROUS...
"Run the experiment under intense laser and observe the atoms with your eyeballs. Then run it again with same intensity laser, but do not observe it, don't even record it for future use. Compare the amount of tunneling for both."
Isn't that still 'observing' for the purposes of the meaning of observing? Really not sure - the whole thing is nuts...
Whilst the American political experience has followed this pattern, if you go and look at the long established small democracies of Europe, you find a very different pattern; PR has enabled specific interest groups to remain outside the large parties and influence government policy more effectively for their particular interests as a result. The text book example of this is Israel where religious parties have ratcheted up the expenditure on Yeshiva and added more and more religiously inspired restrictions on life by selling their MPs' votes to the party most willing to do what they want. Another example lies in the role of Agrarian parties in achieving farm subsidies, whilst the present anti-migrant parties' growth is frightening the rulers around Europe.
The role of newspapers, scientific journals and even bloggers is to decide what their audience is interested in from the mass of data that the person who is the editor has coming across their desk. In effect you are buying that service when you pay for a journal. On a good day the journal will only publish what it regards as high quality research (as determined by the people doing peer reviews) and is a genuine advance in the field. The highest reputation journals get to be the most picky etc etc. Given the tidal wave of research in every field under the sun, we now have a serious problem of duplication of research; journals can be helpful in reducing the probability that people will end up doing exactly the same stuff. Self publication fails to address those issues.
So you are saying that a pharmaceutical company will have the choice of stopping research when the quantity spent hits a certain amount, or carry on the 'bet' further. And of course 'per dose' is imprecise; do you mean 'per course of treatment', 'per pill, or per daily dose', or quite what?
When a techie calls for help. When an English speaker calls, who isn't a techie, use obscure technical terms. If an interpreter calls make sure you have a major domestic emergency...
The fact that a lot of dreadful things have been done in the name of religion - and in the name of atheism (thus Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot's suppression of religion) doesn't mean we can regard all religions equally. It is most appropriate to look at the earliest expressions of the religion, and decide whether its roots are flawed, or whether it's merely a minority within it that are a problem. On this basis Christianity gets a pass - though with a 'room for improvement' given the Vatican's record over child abuse, the Russian Orthodox inability to tear itself away from Putin's embrace, and some of the more obnoxious elements in Protestantism, including rank homophobia - condemning people for how they are tempted, not merely how they live - as well as the prosperity preachers.
By contrast that nice Ayatollah Khomeni offers us his agenda for Islam:
Islam’s jihad is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviation, plunder, repression, and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Islamic] conquerors, however, aims at promoting lust and animal pleasures. They care not if whole countries are wiped out and many families left homeless. But those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [God’s law].... Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless.'
Barry M. Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, eds. Anti-American terrorism and the Middle East: A documentary reader. (Oxford: OUP, 2004) 29
'Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless.'
Of course it's nice to be nice to Muslims. Being nice to poisonous snakes is also a good strategy... There are peaceful Muslims - and that's good. However opinion polls point to an awful lot who aren't - and those are the ones who admit their dangerous beliefs. https://muslimstatistics.wordp...
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And that reveals a far more dubious conclusion
Of course the disadvantage of the influence of the BBC is that all the refugees want to come here as a result...
In the blessed United Kingdom, licences are extremely hard to come by - basically hand guns are outlawed entirely. So, no, get a licence, get a gun doesn't work. Not sure about Australia.
So you make sure you know the URL, or you keep the file away from prying eyes. As usual in IT the legislation is long out of date. Meanwhile of course sending the file to upstanding citizens could have some entertaining effects...
He SHOULD be enforcing such law, and if he were to do so in an election year when he's standing for higher office, it could do his poll ratings a LOT of good...
Bringing such a criminal charge would ensure that it NEVER HAPPENED AGAIN.
Which means that they will be subject to all sorts of pressures to be 'helpful' about it. Let's be clear ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, trusting any US produced hardware or software is a mistake if you want to be SECURE. That the tech firms haven't used this as excuse to move their domicile to somewhere with lower taxes as the real excuse for moving remains a surprise...
This seems a very soft target which perpetrators could hit at minimal risk. Of course that's not the style of this generation of terrorists - for which I guess we should be grateful.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Oh dear - but better than a terrorist attack. Actually high speed trains are an easy target - I'm surprised they haven't been attacked before now
As a Brit who enjoys the benefit of the NHS - which REALLY is free at the point of demand - I tend to forget just how messed up the US system is. If we spent the same proportion of our GDP on health as you do, it would give us an amazing service. We spend about half, and achieve about 95% of what you do.
You pay them one rate as contractors, more cash with limited benefits, or as employees, with less cash but more benefits. Given the need for start ups to employee people on highly variable contracts, and the existence of people for whom variability is acceptable, this can be worked out. Where the problem lies in the growing tendency of firms such as supermarkets to keep a stock of variable hours labour. The ideal is to have a civilised conversation about this whole area; the danger is that we lose the ability to grow new start ups cheaply.
Surely doctors have a duty of care to their patients that would include preventing this happening? Seems to me that a rather large class action suit might be out there soon...
There are a vast number of victims - of the order of hundreds or the low thousands. The cases dealt with so far have dealt far less than 100 perps http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
I'm sorry to hear that you paid the price - and that's the reality that the VW engineers may have been facing, with the added problem that they might well struggle to get a new job in the industry if 'whispers' went round. We like to think that whistle blowers are protected - but it usually takes a long time to gain recompense if you are kicked by the big boys.
This is a match that does make sense; if you are a college student, you need evidence that you can produce worthwhile material. By producing open source software, you get a reputation that will make you seriously employable. Given you are going to work free anyway, you might as well produce something that is meaningful, as opposed to a piece of software which noone but your professor ever gets to see.
That really IS enough to iron out any random factors, meaning that the male / female difference is a real effect. Whether it is significant is a different debate, but it's at least proved what the anecdotes have long suggested.
The article refers to college administrations allowing this suppression of free speech until the courts smack them down. The solution therefore is to encourage exemplary damages against colleges that commit this restriction of political rights, with the board of governors of the institution being on the hook for some of it. Also given the ability of the FBI to charge Southern murderers with depriving people of their constitutional rights, this might also be pursued.
Beyond that we need to recognise that people who are unable to respond appropriately to challenging material are mentally ill; they would appear to be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Therefore the core analysis is whether a tertiary education facility is able to provide an environment for such people, or whether it is inconsistent with its primary role. You don't employ blind people as truck drivers; it is surely impossible to operate a college where free speech is not fully implemented. The next step beyond that is to argue that such institutions should be deprived of their charitable / tax free status because they are no longer able to offer high quality education.
The fingerprints of the NSA etc are all over this bill. The only question is whether we will ever discover how many of them were blackmailed into giving it their support. The scale of the vote however does suggest that there was a lot of pressure being exerted.
The phrase 'deep state' was invented to refer to the intelligence community in Turkey that used to have enormous influence in the running of that country. However it is a term which present experience shows it may be more applicable to the US than is nice to think about.
The security was so bad that a boy could defeat it. Worth making fun of the ignoramus in charge of TalkTalk IT security for this. OTOH, we nerds know that teenagers are DANGEROUS...
"Run the experiment under intense laser and observe the atoms with your eyeballs. Then run it again with same intensity laser, but do not observe it, don't even record it for future use. Compare the amount of tunneling for both."
Isn't that still 'observing' for the purposes of the meaning of observing? Really not sure - the whole thing is nuts...
Whilst the American political experience has followed this pattern, if you go and look at the long established small democracies of Europe, you find a very different pattern; PR has enabled specific interest groups to remain outside the large parties and influence government policy more effectively for their particular interests as a result. The text book example of this is Israel where religious parties have ratcheted up the expenditure on Yeshiva and added more and more religiously inspired restrictions on life by selling their MPs' votes to the party most willing to do what they want. Another example lies in the role of Agrarian parties in achieving farm subsidies, whilst the present anti-migrant parties' growth is frightening the rulers around Europe.
The role of newspapers, scientific journals and even bloggers is to decide what their audience is interested in from the mass of data that the person who is the editor has coming across their desk. In effect you are buying that service when you pay for a journal. On a good day the journal will only publish what it regards as high quality research (as determined by the people doing peer reviews) and is a genuine advance in the field. The highest reputation journals get to be the most picky etc etc. Given the tidal wave of research in every field under the sun, we now have a serious problem of duplication of research; journals can be helpful in reducing the probability that people will end up doing exactly the same stuff. Self publication fails to address those issues.
So you are saying that a pharmaceutical company will have the choice of stopping research when the quantity spent hits a certain amount, or carry on the 'bet' further. And of course 'per dose' is imprecise; do you mean 'per course of treatment', 'per pill, or per daily dose', or quite what?
When a techie calls for help. When an English speaker calls, who isn't a techie, use obscure technical terms. If an interpreter calls make sure you have a major domestic emergency...
The fact that a lot of dreadful things have been done in the name of religion - and in the name of atheism (thus Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot's suppression of religion) doesn't mean we can regard all religions equally. It is most appropriate to look at the earliest expressions of the religion, and decide whether its roots are flawed, or whether it's merely a minority within it that are a problem. On this basis Christianity gets a pass - though with a 'room for improvement' given the Vatican's record over child abuse, the Russian Orthodox inability to tear itself away from Putin's embrace, and some of the more obnoxious elements in Protestantism, including rank homophobia - condemning people for how they are tempted, not merely how they live - as well as the prosperity preachers.
By contrast that nice Ayatollah Khomeni offers us his agenda for Islam:
Islam’s jihad is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviation, plunder, repression, and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Islamic] conquerors, however, aims at promoting lust and animal pleasures. They care not if whole countries are wiped out and many families left homeless. But those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [God’s law].... Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless.'
Barry M. Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, eds. Anti-American terrorism and the Middle East: A documentary reader. (Oxford: OUP, 2004) 29
'Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless.'
Of course it's nice to be nice to Muslims. Being nice to poisonous snakes is also a good strategy... There are peaceful Muslims - and that's good. However opinion polls point to an awful lot who aren't - and those are the ones who admit their dangerous beliefs. https://muslimstatistics.wordp...