For what it's worth, from the complaint there's no evidence she ever agreed to be tracked outside of work hours, and she uninstalled the app as soon as she realized it did that.
Nevermind, I see what you're saying now. But I'm disputing this:
The first claims in her case are shaky because she agreed to them all. Use your personal phone for work, check. Have it with you 24/7, check. Install the app so you can be tracked, check.
She did not agree to the last part when she was hired.
From the complaint it sounds like the tracking app was made a requirement a couple months after she was hired. Could you point me to where she agreed to this when she was hired? I can't see it in either the linked article or the complaint.
For bullet resistance you generally need high toughness, not hardeness. In a technical context toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy without breaking, whereas hardness is the ability of a material to withstand denting, scratching, etc.
Frequently hard materials are not very tough, and visa-versa.
Germany and Japan are near there in terms of [military expenditures](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures). Which seems to me to be a better measure of military power, as number of military personnel is going overestimate the military power of low-tech militaries with lots of infantry.
It's still less regressive than fixed fines. And according to the article their system accounts for many of your objections by basing of spending money, not income. For an average Finn, this apparently works out to 30 - 50 Euro/day, or 500 Euro for an average fine.
And most parts of the world have professional police forces who are hired, not elected, so are not subject to campaign contribution bribery such as you describe.
Is there a second source for this? I can't find anything outside of the linked article. E.g. In Google I can't find anything about OPP child porn busts since Sept 2014; I can't find anything about this on the OPP home page; nor in the last month or so on EFF blog (EFF provided a quote for the article).
Barber is not a good example, since (afaik) barbers are not required to be licensed. Generally licensees are due to public safety concerns: e.g. the push for licensing engineers was due in part to pressure vessels exploding and killing people. Similarly poorly done plumbing can spill sewage into neighboring houses; improper electrical installations can start fires; improper gas fittings can cause natural gas explosions; etc.
It's kinetic energy increases, but its mass stays constant (exactly 0), as does its total energy (since it loses gravitational potential energy as it gains kinetic energy).
To expand on the other reply: It's out of place for a technical discussion because it's a very uncommonly used word -- at least I didn't know the meaning before I looked it up. Whereas in a technical discussion you tend to keep vocabulary reasonably straight forward (I think I heard Grade 9 level once) since the goal is to express technical information clearly, not impress your listeners with flowery vocabulary.
Even if I am wrong -- even if the majority of alien civilizations turn out to be biological -- it may be that the most intelligent alien civilizations will be ones in which the inhabitants are SAI.
SAI is her term for "superintelligent artificial intelligence". So she has just written a tautology. Unless you want to get into super-superintelligent or ultra-superintelligent.
And the rest is more of the same.
Or maybe intelligence is weakly ordered, and "most intelligent alien civilization" has as much meaning as "biggest civilization". I.e.: most intelligent/biggest according to what measure?
Airspace is mostly empty, and air traffic flows along well regulated routes, with many electronic aids/sensors (radar, glide slope & localizing beams for landings, etc.)
The challenge of land vehicles are (1) the unpredictable, dense, environment, and (2) the signalling is mostly visual (lines, stop lights, etc.) which is hard for computers to interpret.
The problem with being able to allow/deny individual permissions is the app developers now have 2^n configurations to test, instead of just one. Which is either going to lead to a much higher testing cost, or apps which are buggier when run with less than full requested permissions.
The report they are drawing their findings from found no wrongdoing on Google's part:
"We found that Ames officials accurately reported H211’s relationship with the Center to DLA-Energy but DLA-Energy believed H211 was performing only NASA-related missions and therefore was entitled to fuel at the cost-plus-surcharge rate. We found that a misunderstanding between Ames and DLA-Energy personnel rather than intentional misconduct led to H211 receiving the discounted fuel rate for flights that had no NASA-related mission." (emphasis mine).
So more like buying gas from a gas station which had accidentally listed the wholesale price than siphoning gas from a friend.
540,000,000 kWh/year is an interesting way to express power though. Especially when it means that a power plant with 240 MW installed capacity is producing 62 MW average power.
This makes sense if 240 MW is the peak power generation, and 62 MW is average, given the cyclic nature of power generation, but still...
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Which, I'm sure, is a huge relief for the people being tortured by fools who believe in it.
For what it's worth, from the complaint there's no evidence she ever agreed to be tracked outside of work hours, and she uninstalled the app as soon as she realized it did that.
P.S. Thank-you Slashdot for no edit function.
Nevermind, I see what you're saying now. But I'm disputing this:
The first claims in her case are shaky because she agreed to them all. Use your personal phone for work, check. Have it with you 24/7, check. Install the app so you can be tracked, check.
She did not agree to the last part when she was hired.
From the complaint she was hired in February:
4. Intermex hired Plaintiff Myrna Arias as a Sales Executive, Account Manager on February 10, 2014
App only came in April:
7. In April 2014, Intermex asked Plaintiff and other employees to download an application ("app") called Xora to their smart phones.
From the complaint it sounds like the tracking app was made a requirement a couple months after she was hired. Could you point me to where she agreed to this when she was hired? I can't see it in either the linked article or the complaint.
I think this is normal for fields like astronomy which involve a large number of scientists sharing a single, very expensive, piece of equipment.
For bullet resistance you generally need high toughness, not hardeness. In a technical context toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy without breaking, whereas hardness is the ability of a material to withstand denting, scratching, etc.
Frequently hard materials are not very tough, and visa-versa.
Canada likely wouldn't want it. We had an aircraft carrier but we scrapped it because it was too expensive for a country of our size to maintain.
Germany and Japan are near there in terms of [military expenditures](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures). Which seems to me to be a better measure of military power, as number of military personnel is going overestimate the military power of low-tech militaries with lots of infantry.
It's still less regressive than fixed fines. And according to the article their system accounts for many of your objections by basing of spending money, not income. For an average Finn, this apparently works out to 30 - 50 Euro/day, or 500 Euro for an average fine.
And most parts of the world have professional police forces who are hired, not elected, so are not subject to campaign contribution bribery such as you describe.
Is there a second source for this? I can't find anything outside of the linked article. E.g. In Google I can't find anything about OPP child porn busts since Sept 2014; I can't find anything about this on the OPP home page; nor in the last month or so on EFF blog (EFF provided a quote for the article).
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not let facts get in the way of Internet outrage.
Barber is not a good example, since (afaik) barbers are not required to be licensed. Generally licensees are due to public safety concerns: e.g. the push for licensing engineers was due in part to pressure vessels exploding and killing people. Similarly poorly done plumbing can spill sewage into neighboring houses; improper electrical installations can start fires; improper gas fittings can cause natural gas explosions; etc.
We are not born with a unique ID burned into our souls;
We do, however, have a unique ID burned into our bodies. It goes something like GATTACA...
(well, excepting twins, chimeras and a few other special cases).
It's kinetic energy increases, but its mass stays constant (exactly 0), as does its total energy (since it loses gravitational potential energy as it gains kinetic energy).
To expand on the other reply: It's out of place for a technical discussion because it's a very uncommonly used word -- at least I didn't know the meaning before I looked it up. Whereas in a technical discussion you tend to keep vocabulary reasonably straight forward (I think I heard Grade 9 level once) since the goal is to express technical information clearly, not impress your listeners with flowery vocabulary.
Plus rocket reuse has not happened yet.
Except by NASA from 1981-2011.
SAI is her term for "superintelligent artificial intelligence". So she has just written a tautology. Unless you want to get into super-superintelligent or ultra-superintelligent.
And the rest is more of the same.
Or maybe intelligence is weakly ordered, and "most intelligent alien civilization" has as much meaning as "biggest civilization". I.e.: most intelligent/biggest according to what measure?
g is also a unit of acceleration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Airspace is mostly empty, and air traffic flows along well regulated routes, with many electronic aids/sensors (radar, glide slope & localizing beams for landings, etc.)
The challenge of land vehicles are (1) the unpredictable, dense, environment, and (2) the signalling is mostly visual (lines, stop lights, etc.) which is hard for computers to interpret.
I never expected to see a (Score:4, Insightful) post asking for the opinion of Bennett Haselton.
The problem with being able to allow/deny individual permissions is the app developers now have 2^n configurations to test, instead of just one. Which is either going to lead to a much higher testing cost, or apps which are buggier when run with less than full requested permissions.
As the city gets whiter, it reflects more light, which is bad for cities with long, cold, winters.
But why is it bad for Seattle?
The report they are drawing their findings from found no wrongdoing on Google's part:
"We found that Ames officials accurately reported H211’s relationship with the Center to DLA-Energy but DLA-Energy believed H211 was performing only NASA-related missions and therefore was entitled to fuel at the cost-plus-surcharge rate. We found that a misunderstanding between Ames and DLA-Energy personnel rather than intentional misconduct led to H211 receiving the discounted fuel rate for flights that had no NASA-related mission." (emphasis mine).
So more like buying gas from a gas station which had accidentally listed the wholesale price than siphoning gas from a friend.
Neat.
540,000,000 kWh/year is an interesting way to express power though. Especially when it means that a power plant with 240 MW installed capacity is producing 62 MW average power.
This makes sense if 240 MW is the peak power generation, and 62 MW is average, given the cyclic nature of power generation, but still...