Thanks for the clarification about the piece. I must confess that I didn't pay adequate attention. I was in a restaurant and they had the sound turned off. Listening to Jenny McCarthy is bad enough. Reading Jenny McCarthy dialogue in the closed captioning something I am simply not willing to do.
You have just perfectly described the CNN special I saw last night on TV about this. Anderson Cooper was using Jenny McCarthy as the counterpoint to the claims of fraud.
+1. I've got about 6,000 CDs ripped to FLAC files on a music server and the idea of having to either reencode to play on an ipod or having to jailbreak the device was enough to get me to buy a Sansa Fuze. Granted, the Fuze is pretty much good for music only (not withstanding the tiny little screen) but at least it plays FLAC files. And it's pretty cheap. And you can insert your own memory cards to seemlessly augment the Fuze's built-in memory.
My Princeton degree has worked for me and against me. I came out in 1992 with a certificate to teach high school history (through a highly unusual teaching program Princeton offers that more or less eschews normal pedagogy courses in favor of practical experience). The one interview I managed to get with a school system (out of hundreds of applications) started with the following question: "Given your educational background, how do you expect to lower your expectations to the level required of a public school teacher?" Needless to say, I didn't get the job.
Since then, my undergrad degree has played a significant role in getting me two law jobs (including the one I have now). In both instances, the hiring partner also had an Ivy League degree (either undergrad or law) and it was clear that I got my foot in the door because of their respect for the school, even though my degree had absolutely no direct relevance to the job. I had to close the deal once I got the interviews but, after getting the jobs and working with those people for many years, it is clear that they hold a certain class of school in very high regard and pre-judge job applicants accordingly.
Has your class been doing this with more than one type of clicker device? When I initially read the summary, I thought that there was tons of prior art. Haven't game shows been using clicker techology for years to poll what the audience things ("Who Wants to be Millionaire?" for example). The distinguishing feature here might be more than one type of clicker. I'm not sure where that distinction would come in handy, however. Any ideas?
Precisely. You can see why 1098 failed in another initiative that passed: Initiative 1053 (which requires a 2/3 vote of the legislature to raise taxes). This is the third time Washington voters have instituted such a restriction. The legislature keeps getting rid of it after the requisite two-year waiting period. It's clear to most Washington voters that if an income tax in any form were to be passed, the reaction would be much like a junkie employed by a pharmacy: just wait until the boss leaves the store and then get your fix.
A BK filing by Thomas will almost certainly discharge any award of damages the plaintiff obtains in this case. If she had a million dollars burning a hole in her pocket, it is possible that the bankruptcy court would give some of it to the plaintiff (assuming there are no creditors with higher priority) but from what the articles say about Ms. Thomas, the decision to discharge the entire award should be pretty easy for any court to make.
That reminds me the last question my college roommate had on his senior oral exam. He was a physics major and was asked how he would derive Avogadro's number without the aid of certain pieces of modern technology. As I recall, his answer started with something along the lines of the following: "First, I would find a really tiny man . . . "
>> A bulldozer chip will NOT work in AM3, only AM3+.
>Has this been confirmed? Not as far as I've seen. The point still stands that Intel changes sockets more often.
Anandtech just ran a similar article on these chips and made the same assertion regarding the inability of Bulldozer to work on AM3. Anand cited AMD itself as the source of the information. He made the point of noting that nothing is 100% until the actual products are finalized but that's the source of the info. Kind of a bummer since I'm in the market for a new machine (after 60 months with my 939 system) and was hoping to get something that was slightly future proofed. Oh well.
It's worse than that. For the millions of people in Qwestland that are stuck at 1.5mbps service (and will be for the indefinite future) it is painfully easy to see the difference between streaming and DVD (much less blu-ray). Even if all of these connections were miraculously upgraded by an entire order of magnitude overnight, you won't have the capacity to stream a BD-quality movie (and that's assuming one user in any given home is going to suck up the entire connection to that home).
I have one of these so-call broadband connections and love Steam. But I set my games to download overnight (and it often takes the entire night). Those are for games in the 1gb range. I cannot imagine trying to download something in the 25-50gb range. And that's assuming that the media publishers intend to actually allow us to download the file to our machines to watch at our pleasure (as opposed to streaming).
If we have sufficient flexibility in using downloaded content (a huge "if"), I would love to go that route. But I don't see us ditching physical media for many many years to come (at least for movies).
No, the HDCP technology that has been compromised by this leak is completely separate from the AACS encryption that is present on BDs. AnyDVD gets around AACS. You then need to get the information to a display device (which presents another layer of DRM in the form of HDCP). This leak provides a means for getting around that layer.
However, you are correct about the permanency thing because HDCP keys can be invalidated. This means that all of the manufacturers of HDCP strippers (there are a few out there) can now make them with more assurances that they won't be rendered useless overnight by a system renewability message.
Or perhaps what he really meant was "imprecision is the result of our main advantage," our main advantage being the ability to very quickly get the gist of what is going on and not get bogged down in minor details that might not matter. This would have been important for our long dead ancestors when they ran into animals higher on the food chain. While a general assessment would be appropriate (is it a tiger cub or a full grown male), the sex, exact weight, length, and striping of the tiger would typically not have been important when survival was at stake.
That would be very difficult (if not impossible) given most state laws. However, it does vary. If a doc is going to remotely treat or diagnose a patient in Oregon (except perhaps for so-called "curbside" consults), the doc must be licensed in Oregon. This is the general rule in most (if not all) US states, although some states have oddball statutes that might provide some limited about of leeway. For example, Washington has a statute that gives the appearance of allowing remote diagnoses without a Washington license so long as the doc doesn't have a physical location anywhere in Washington. This appears to open the door wide open but I think this is an unintended consequence of a law that was intended to address a different issue and if widespread unlicensed remote consults without Washington licenses were to occur, this problem would be remedied very quickly. To the best of my knowledge (which is pretty good with respect to Washington health law), no WA providers have ever suggested reliance on this statute for any remote diagnostic service agreements with docs not license in WA because they all know they would get in big trouble.
Additionally, you have CMS and the Joint Commission to deal with. These accrediting bodies (among others) generally require that hospitals credential such providers before allowing them to remotely diagnose and treat patients. The credentially and licensing process for certain types of remote providers can be streamlined compared to the normal process but is definitely still there.
Ultimately, off-shore telemedicine might routinely happen someday. But not before a lot of statutes and bureaucratic rules have been changed.
This is getting really off topic but the suggestion that US went into Iraq the first time because of currency concerns is interesting. The US went into Iraq in January 1991, almost eight years before the euro was first used as a currency (and a year before the Treaty of Maastricht was even signed). I've seen numerous opinions about why currency issues motivated the current Iraq war (such as this one) but nothing on the first gulf war (but I admitedly haven't been actively looking for such stuff).
Just a nit but sales (or use) taxes assessed by one state on goods sold in another state are unconstitutional only because of the way they've been implemented in the past (i.e. by state governments alone). Congress has exclusive authority to regulate interstate commerce and all state attempts to impose cross-border sales taxes have improperly encroached upon that authority. However, the US Supreme Court has made it very clear that Congress can enact legislation that permits cross-border taxes of these types. Here's one relatively recent case on point:
While I don't doubt that reasonably intelligent consumers see through pricing psychology, there are numerous studies that clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of pricing endings (the cents) that are just one penny below the dollar (or euro or whatever) when large groups of consumers are involved. In fact, consumer preference for the $8.99 product over an identical product priced at $9.00 (or similar differences) is so commonplace that the questions being asked now aren't about whether it happens but why. Some have suggested that this pricing mechanism takes advantage of some irrational decision making process in consumers. Others have suggested that consumers simply don't want to take the time to process the cents portion of prices and look merely at the dollars.
I agree. Asimov had some awesome story lines and ideas, which is why I love the Foundation series. But a lot of the prose he uses to implement his ideas is just not very good. I had to wince almost every time Arkady had a line of dialogue. I think this is the primary curse of being a fan of science fiction literature: great ideas with poor writing. But I'll keep reading the stuff anyway.
Not really. The article clearly indicates that heat input is required (i.e. it doesn't purport to be a system that produces more energy than is put into it). The beauty of this system is that this energy is obtained from a source we don't have to pay for (i.e., the sun).
Because no effective vaccine for malaria has been adopted for clinical use? Just saying . . .
But on the same note, I've read some interesting articles that proposed that flu vaccines do absolutely no good whatsoever. For example: Atlantic article
Clauses can generally only be "hidden" if a contract prepared by one party is assented to by the other (think about your credit card agreements) and the assenting party didn't read it or otherwise have reason to notice the provision (i.e. because the type was tiny). This happens a lot in consumer transactions or other situations where the parties have very disparate bargaining power. I would be astonished if the agreement at issue here were not totally customized for this transaction, thus making it virtually impossible to hide any clauses (absent perhaps some fraudulent conduct, like one party surreptitiously exchanging a modified version of the contract immediately before execution of what would have otherwise been a mutually agreed upon contract).
Unlike with consumer transactions, parties to commercial transactions are generally presumed to be fully aware of what they are signing up for. And this is the approach most courts will take for for run of the mill commercial parties. eBay is hardly a run of the mill business. They probably had an army of highly paid attorneys working on this deal.
Given your gratuitous compliment and lack of attempt to slander the parent with FUD, I think the real question is how did YOU find your way to Slashdot?
Coincidentally, I just attended a CLE that touched upon this issue today. The recommendation was that if you use any data miners to go out and look for damning information on social networking sites, they should be people who are well versed in the prohibited bases for not hiring people. Additionally, these people should NOT be the hiring decision makers. Essentially, these people would forward legally appropriate information to the decision makers who would then use the sanitized information in the hiring process (i.e. quotes about how the candidate financed his BMW from his current employer's cash reserves).
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Thanks for the clarification about the piece. I must confess that I didn't pay adequate attention. I was in a restaurant and they had the sound turned off. Listening to Jenny McCarthy is bad enough. Reading Jenny McCarthy dialogue in the closed captioning something I am simply not willing to do.
You have just perfectly described the CNN special I saw last night on TV about this. Anderson Cooper was using Jenny McCarthy as the counterpoint to the claims of fraud.
+1. I've got about 6,000 CDs ripped to FLAC files on a music server and the idea of having to either reencode to play on an ipod or having to jailbreak the device was enough to get me to buy a Sansa Fuze. Granted, the Fuze is pretty much good for music only (not withstanding the tiny little screen) but at least it plays FLAC files. And it's pretty cheap. And you can insert your own memory cards to seemlessly augment the Fuze's built-in memory.
My Princeton degree has worked for me and against me. I came out in 1992 with a certificate to teach high school history (through a highly unusual teaching program Princeton offers that more or less eschews normal pedagogy courses in favor of practical experience). The one interview I managed to get with a school system (out of hundreds of applications) started with the following question: "Given your educational background, how do you expect to lower your expectations to the level required of a public school teacher?" Needless to say, I didn't get the job.
Since then, my undergrad degree has played a significant role in getting me two law jobs (including the one I have now). In both instances, the hiring partner also had an Ivy League degree (either undergrad or law) and it was clear that I got my foot in the door because of their respect for the school, even though my degree had absolutely no direct relevance to the job. I had to close the deal once I got the interviews but, after getting the jobs and working with those people for many years, it is clear that they hold a certain class of school in very high regard and pre-judge job applicants accordingly.
Has your class been doing this with more than one type of clicker device? When I initially read the summary, I thought that there was tons of prior art. Haven't game shows been using clicker techology for years to poll what the audience things ("Who Wants to be Millionaire?" for example). The distinguishing feature here might be more than one type of clicker. I'm not sure where that distinction would come in handy, however. Any ideas?
Precisely. You can see why 1098 failed in another initiative that passed: Initiative 1053 (which requires a 2/3 vote of the legislature to raise taxes). This is the third time Washington voters have instituted such a restriction. The legislature keeps getting rid of it after the requisite two-year waiting period. It's clear to most Washington voters that if an income tax in any form were to be passed, the reaction would be much like a junkie employed by a pharmacy: just wait until the boss leaves the store and then get your fix.
A BK filing by Thomas will almost certainly discharge any award of damages the plaintiff obtains in this case. If she had a million dollars burning a hole in her pocket, it is possible that the bankruptcy court would give some of it to the plaintiff (assuming there are no creditors with higher priority) but from what the articles say about Ms. Thomas, the decision to discharge the entire award should be pretty easy for any court to make.
That reminds me the last question my college roommate had on his senior oral exam. He was a physics major and was asked how he would derive Avogadro's number without the aid of certain pieces of modern technology. As I recall, his answer started with something along the lines of the following: "First, I would find a really tiny man . . . "
This is the article I was referring to (read through the comments for discussion about AM3+ compatability):
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3937/amds-fall-refresh-new-phenom-ii-and-athlon-ii-cpus-balance-price-and-performance
Here's another blurb about the same issue:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/289211-28-official-socket-support-bulldozer
>> A bulldozer chip will NOT work in AM3, only AM3+.
>Has this been confirmed? Not as far as I've seen. The point still stands that Intel changes sockets more often.
Anandtech just ran a similar article on these chips and made the same assertion regarding the inability of Bulldozer to work on AM3. Anand cited AMD itself as the source of the information. He made the point of noting that nothing is 100% until the actual products are finalized but that's the source of the info. Kind of a bummer since I'm in the market for a new machine (after 60 months with my 939 system) and was hoping to get something that was slightly future proofed. Oh well.
It's worse than that. For the millions of people in Qwestland that are stuck at 1.5mbps service (and will be for the indefinite future) it is painfully easy to see the difference between streaming and DVD (much less blu-ray). Even if all of these connections were miraculously upgraded by an entire order of magnitude overnight, you won't have the capacity to stream a BD-quality movie (and that's assuming one user in any given home is going to suck up the entire connection to that home).
I have one of these so-call broadband connections and love Steam. But I set my games to download overnight (and it often takes the entire night). Those are for games in the 1gb range. I cannot imagine trying to download something in the 25-50gb range. And that's assuming that the media publishers intend to actually allow us to download the file to our machines to watch at our pleasure (as opposed to streaming).
If we have sufficient flexibility in using downloaded content (a huge "if"), I would love to go that route. But I don't see us ditching physical media for many many years to come (at least for movies).
No, the HDCP technology that has been compromised by this leak is completely separate from the AACS encryption that is present on BDs. AnyDVD gets around AACS. You then need to get the information to a display device (which presents another layer of DRM in the form of HDCP). This leak provides a means for getting around that layer.
However, you are correct about the permanency thing because HDCP keys can be invalidated. This means that all of the manufacturers of HDCP strippers (there are a few out there) can now make them with more assurances that they won't be rendered useless overnight by a system renewability message.
Or perhaps what he really meant was "imprecision is the result of our main advantage," our main advantage being the ability to very quickly get the gist of what is going on and not get bogged down in minor details that might not matter. This would have been important for our long dead ancestors when they ran into animals higher on the food chain. While a general assessment would be appropriate (is it a tiger cub or a full grown male), the sex, exact weight, length, and striping of the tiger would typically not have been important when survival was at stake.
That would be very difficult (if not impossible) given most state laws. However, it does vary. If a doc is going to remotely treat or diagnose a patient in Oregon (except perhaps for so-called "curbside" consults), the doc must be licensed in Oregon. This is the general rule in most (if not all) US states, although some states have oddball statutes that might provide some limited about of leeway. For example, Washington has a statute that gives the appearance of allowing remote diagnoses without a Washington license so long as the doc doesn't have a physical location anywhere in Washington. This appears to open the door wide open but I think this is an unintended consequence of a law that was intended to address a different issue and if widespread unlicensed remote consults without Washington licenses were to occur, this problem would be remedied very quickly. To the best of my knowledge (which is pretty good with respect to Washington health law), no WA providers have ever suggested reliance on this statute for any remote diagnostic service agreements with docs not license in WA because they all know they would get in big trouble.
Additionally, you have CMS and the Joint Commission to deal with. These accrediting bodies (among others) generally require that hospitals credential such providers before allowing them to remotely diagnose and treat patients. The credentially and licensing process for certain types of remote providers can be streamlined compared to the normal process but is definitely still there.
Ultimately, off-shore telemedicine might routinely happen someday. But not before a lot of statutes and bureaucratic rules have been changed.
This is getting really off topic but the suggestion that US went into Iraq the first time because of currency concerns is interesting. The US went into Iraq in January 1991, almost eight years before the euro was first used as a currency (and a year before the Treaty of Maastricht was even signed). I've seen numerous opinions about why currency issues motivated the current Iraq war (such as this one) but nothing on the first gulf war (but I admitedly haven't been actively looking for such stuff).
Just a nit but sales (or use) taxes assessed by one state on goods sold in another state are unconstitutional only because of the way they've been implemented in the past (i.e. by state governments alone). Congress has exclusive authority to regulate interstate commerce and all state attempts to impose cross-border sales taxes have improperly encroached upon that authority. However, the US Supreme Court has made it very clear that Congress can enact legislation that permits cross-border taxes of these types. Here's one relatively recent case on point:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/91-0194.ZO.html
While I don't doubt that reasonably intelligent consumers see through pricing psychology, there are numerous studies that clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of pricing endings (the cents) that are just one penny below the dollar (or euro or whatever) when large groups of consumers are involved. In fact, consumer preference for the $8.99 product over an identical product priced at $9.00 (or similar differences) is so commonplace that the questions being asked now aren't about whether it happens but why. Some have suggested that this pricing mechanism takes advantage of some irrational decision making process in consumers. Others have suggested that consumers simply don't want to take the time to process the cents portion of prices and look merely at the dollars.
I agree. Asimov had some awesome story lines and ideas, which is why I love the Foundation series. But a lot of the prose he uses to implement his ideas is just not very good. I had to wince almost every time Arkady had a line of dialogue. I think this is the primary curse of being a fan of science fiction literature: great ideas with poor writing. But I'll keep reading the stuff anyway.
Not really. The article clearly indicates that heat input is required (i.e. it doesn't purport to be a system that produces more energy than is put into it). The beauty of this system is that this energy is obtained from a source we don't have to pay for (i.e., the sun).
Because no effective vaccine for malaria has been adopted for clinical use? Just saying . . .
But on the same note, I've read some interesting articles that proposed that flu vaccines do absolutely no good whatsoever. For example: Atlantic article
Clauses can generally only be "hidden" if a contract prepared by one party is assented to by the other (think about your credit card agreements) and the assenting party didn't read it or otherwise have reason to notice the provision (i.e. because the type was tiny). This happens a lot in consumer transactions or other situations where the parties have very disparate bargaining power. I would be astonished if the agreement at issue here were not totally customized for this transaction, thus making it virtually impossible to hide any clauses (absent perhaps some fraudulent conduct, like one party surreptitiously exchanging a modified version of the contract immediately before execution of what would have otherwise been a mutually agreed upon contract).
Unlike with consumer transactions, parties to commercial transactions are generally presumed to be fully aware of what they are signing up for. And this is the approach most courts will take for for run of the mill commercial parties. eBay is hardly a run of the mill business. They probably had an army of highly paid attorneys working on this deal.
Given your gratuitous compliment and lack of attempt to slander the parent with FUD, I think the real question is how did YOU find your way to Slashdot?
I believe that the advances in detection technology would always have allowed the allies to hear a Horton Ho.
I don't know the answer, but I believe that compelling decryption would be even easier in a civil matter since self-incrimination is not at issue.
Coincidentally, I just attended a CLE that touched upon this issue today. The recommendation was that if you use any data miners to go out and look for damning information on social networking sites, they should be people who are well versed in the prohibited bases for not hiring people. Additionally, these people should NOT be the hiring decision makers. Essentially, these people would forward legally appropriate information to the decision makers who would then use the sanitized information in the hiring process (i.e. quotes about how the candidate financed his BMW from his current employer's cash reserves).