I remember cyc from an old (early 90's) PBS doumentary series about computers called The Machine that Changed the World. IIRC, cyc isn't just a database of facts, it's also an engine for making inferences based on those facts. The researcher on the show said that every morning they would come in and read the list on new inferences cyc had generated overnight and fix the incorrect ones and then start inputting new information. One amusing example they gave was that since most of the individuals they had told cyc about were historical figures, it inferred that most people were famous.
Actually most (film) movie cameras have a rotary disc shutter. It's a mirrored disc with a slice cut out of it that spins in front of the film, so 1 rotation = 1 exposure. When it's not reflecting light onto the film, it's reflecting it into the viewfinder so you can see what's gong on.
I imagine video and DV cameras don't even have a shutter, but I really don't know. I guess it depends on whether the have a dSLR CCD or the kind that's in point-and-shoots.
"These data are protected under the Privacy Act," one document states. The analyst is the "lead programmer within the Policy Analysis Service and as such needs access to real Social Security numbers."
I'm very skeptical that he needs access to "real Social Security" numbers. If they were doing application testing or statistical analysis on the data, they could have anonymized the data before copying it out of the live environment. 27 million records isn't an impossibly large data set (especially if they fit on a laptop), so it shouldn't have been too onerous to do. There's rarely any reason for a developer to be looking at protected data unless they're diagnosing a bug in production.
The difference is that you can't prove that you don't know something. Do you want to be held in contempt of court because you forgot the passphrase to something you encrypted 10 years ago and then forgot the passphrase to?
If it's a key to a safe or something, at least you can turn out your pockets and show you don't have it.
People need to stop talking about "switching" away from ISPs if a site gets down throttled. It won't matter what last mile ISP you choose, they won't be the ones doing the QOS. The throttling will be done on the backbone, by the handful of providers that control the backbone.
For example, to reach company X's website from home, my packets follow this path:
my pc --> BritSys (my ISP) --> level3 (backbone) --> UUNet/Verizon (backbone) --> Speakeasy (X's isp) --> X's website
Now, if X is not paying extortion money to level3, packets bound for X get throttled down to lowest priority.
On the flipside, Verizon might decide that they're going to throttle traffic originating from BritSys unless they get a fee.
It won't matter if I switch ISPs, it won't matter if X switches ISPs, chances are that at some point, packets bound for X are going to touch level3's or Verizon's backbone. No matter what X does, they're hosed unless they pay protection money to every single backbone provider that demands it.
The thing is everyone in this loop is already being fairly compensated without any extra fees:
I'm paying BritSys for my DSL line.
BritSys is paying level3 for wholesale bandwidth.
level3 and Verizon are either paying eachother or have a peering agreement.
Speakeasy is paying Verizon.
X is paying Speakeasy
The only reason this has become an issue is that Verizon is terrified that X=Vontage or Skype and that instead of making an HTTP request, I'm making a VOIP call. Or it's Comcast afraid that I'm streaming a movie instead of ordering it from their pay-per-view service. All this crying about Google hitching a "free ride" is a smoke screen to hide the real issue: these companies are attempting to use their positions of influence over the internet to protect their threatened business models.
People are used to easily availiable beer starting in high school!
In my experience, it was easier to get weed, LSD, and ecstacy in HS than it was to get beer and cigarettes. This is not to mention ritalin, adderall and all the other speed substitues we dose our kids up with.
It's also way easier to conceal a dime bag or a sheet than a six pack, plus dealers don't check IDs!
For anyone that's interested, the Commonwealth is made up of those nation states, territories and dependencies that were formally part of the British Empire that want to be in it, which is pretty much all former parts of the Empire bar a few exceptions, such as the USA and the Republic of Ireland.
I happen to be from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you insensitive clod!
I can appreciate one who knows what's most important in life, and one of those things is not forgetting who your friends are, and sticking by them all along. Even if it's just small things, which is the job of some secretary.
No, no, no. What's important in life? "To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
Well, hardly anyone was really using X12 for billing until HIPAA mandated it. I bet part of the fallout we will se as all of these RHIOs mature and we move towards a national EMR is that we will get a set of mandated clinical interchange formats from the federal government just like we got for financial transactions.
Hey, I believe you. We modified a strain of E. Coli in my Freshman AP Biology High School class to be antibiotic resistant. And that was almost 15 years ago.
The point wasn't that we understand everything we were doing. The point was to get us interesed in the science.
Well, assuming that terrorists actually file taxes and don't lie about their income, it would be illegal to use that info in criminal prosecution, as that would violate the 5th ammendment.
The 5th amendment protects you from being compelled to testify against yourself in a court. If you volunteer the information, you're out of luck.
Most people know that sticking your hand into a 350F oven doesn't really hurt for quite some time (assuming you don't touch something inside...), but touching a 212F column of steam will hurt quite quickly.
Well, if it's truely steam and not hot water vapour, you're also absorbing the ~2250 joules/gram of latent heat as the water phase changes from gas to liquid upon contact with your hand. Steam will burn you much more quickly than near-boiling water will.
Eggs do have a membrane at one end that seals off a little air pocket. I was told that when the egg hatches the chick punctures this membrane to give it an air supply untill it cracks the shell, but I don't know if that's true.
Still depends though. If you work an extra 10 hrs/week all year for that $3500, it works out to $6.73/hr. Burger flipping salary.
On the other hand, if you had to work 50 hrs/week just to keep your job, then it's a nice bone to be tossed.
I don't think there are many positions outside of sales or executive level that really offer a decent bonus potential. Conversely, if the business misses a revenue goal and they don't pay out bonuses that quarter, I'm not devastated either.
Given the choice, I'd rather go home at 5 than 6. I could always mow lawns if I needed the money;-)
Hmmm, I'm using Notes 6 and I have a Size column. You may have to customize your mail view if it's not in there by default. If you couldn't see the message size, you should have yelled at your Notes admin for having a crappy mail db template.
Not that I don't loathe Notes, because I do. Decent groupware, but absolutely horrendous email client. I'm actually looking forward to when they switch us over to Outlook, of all things. We'll keep Notes around for the databases, which is all it ever should have been used for in the first place.
Our policy, IIRC: Loose outgoing mail at 250MB, incoming mail starts bouncing at 300MB.
Just like I can accept my friend for who he is as a person I don't have to accept what he does or condone his own beliefs. You can care and love for someone without accepting some of their choices as correct or right despite what people think.
Ok, but try flipping it around. Can you imagine how it feels for this hypothetical other person to have a "friend" that says that they care about them, but wants to see them relegated to the status of a second class citizen?
"Love the sinner but hate the sin", can be a lot harder on the sinner in some instances. I'm sorry, but I just don't have it in me. There are probably people out there who can manage to have a caring friendship with someone who votes away your rights, but I'm not one of them.
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I remember cyc from an old (early 90's) PBS doumentary series about computers called The Machine that Changed the World. IIRC, cyc isn't just a database of facts, it's also an engine for making inferences based on those facts. The researcher on the show said that every morning they would come in and read the list on new inferences cyc had generated overnight and fix the incorrect ones and then start inputting new information. One amusing example they gave was that since most of the individuals they had told cyc about were historical figures, it inferred that most people were famous.
Yeah, it's kinda silly they don't just put a little warning marker next to the link instead of forcing you to click on it.
You have to actually click on the link. Here's an example: http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www. theserials.com/serial/serialbox.html
Actually most (film) movie cameras have a rotary disc shutter. It's a mirrored disc with a slice cut out of it that spins in front of the film, so 1 rotation = 1 exposure. When it's not reflecting light onto the film, it's reflecting it into the viewfinder so you can see what's gong on.
I imagine video and DV cameras don't even have a shutter, but I really don't know. I guess it depends on whether the have a dSLR CCD or the kind that's in point-and-shoots.
You have to remove the "Utilities" portion of the path in all those URLs for them to work.
a me.zip --> http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/Hostname.zip
e.g. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Files/Hostn
I think you're looking for CheapBytes
I'm very skeptical that he needs access to "real Social Security" numbers. If they were doing application testing or statistical analysis on the data, they could have anonymized the data before copying it out of the live environment. 27 million records isn't an impossibly large data set (especially if they fit on a laptop), so it shouldn't have been too onerous to do. There's rarely any reason for a developer to be looking at protected data unless they're diagnosing a bug in production.
The difference is that you can't prove that you don't know something. Do you want to be held in contempt of court because you forgot the passphrase to something you encrypted 10 years ago and then forgot the passphrase to?
If it's a key to a safe or something, at least you can turn out your pockets and show you don't have it.
For example, to reach company X's website from home, my packets follow this path:
my pc --> BritSys (my ISP) --> level3 (backbone) --> UUNet/Verizon (backbone) --> Speakeasy (X's isp) --> X's website
Now, if X is not paying extortion money to level3, packets bound for X get throttled down to lowest priority.
On the flipside, Verizon might decide that they're going to throttle traffic originating from BritSys unless they get a fee.
It won't matter if I switch ISPs, it won't matter if X switches ISPs, chances are that at some point, packets bound for X are going to touch level3's or Verizon's backbone. No matter what X does, they're hosed unless they pay protection money to every single backbone provider that demands it.
The thing is everyone in this loop is already being fairly compensated without any extra fees:
The only reason this has become an issue is that Verizon is terrified that X=Vontage or Skype and that instead of making an HTTP request, I'm making a VOIP call. Or it's Comcast afraid that I'm streaming a movie instead of ordering it from their pay-per-view service. All this crying about Google hitching a "free ride" is a smoke screen to hide the real issue: these companies are attempting to use their positions of influence over the internet to protect their threatened business models.
In my experience, it was easier to get weed, LSD, and ecstacy in HS than it was to get beer and cigarettes. This is not to mention ritalin, adderall and all the other speed substitues we dose our kids up with.
It's also way easier to conceal a dime bag or a sheet than a six pack, plus dealers don't check IDs!
Next up: mail order Goobers. $0.50 + $4.00 S&H
They already tried that, minus the $4.00 S&H. Remember kozmo.com?
I'd always heard that was to punish Bayer for collaborating with the Nazi party in WWII.
For anyone that's interested, the Commonwealth is made up of those nation states, territories and dependencies that were formally part of the British Empire that want to be in it, which is pretty much all former parts of the Empire bar a few exceptions, such as the USA and the Republic of Ireland.
I happen to be from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you insensitive clod!
Heck, if it's good enough for socialist France, why not here in the US?
;-)
I wouldn't say that Socialism and enviromentalism are necessarly linked. I mean the Soviets weren't exactly green were they?
I can appreciate one who knows what's most important in life, and one of those things is not forgetting who your friends are, and sticking by them all along. Even if it's just small things, which is the job of some secretary.
No, no, no. What's important in life? "To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
Hmm, nothing about friends in there...
Yeah, it's an occupational hazard from working with HIS.
Well, hardly anyone was really using X12 for billing until HIPAA mandated it. I bet part of the fallout we will se as all of these RHIOs mature and we move towards a national EMR is that we will get a set of mandated clinical interchange formats from the federal government just like we got for financial transactions.
Hey, I believe you. We modified a strain of E. Coli in my Freshman AP Biology High School class to be antibiotic resistant. And that was almost 15 years ago.
The point wasn't that we understand everything we were doing. The point was to get us interesed in the science.
The 5th amendment protects you from being compelled to testify against yourself in a court. If you volunteer the information, you're out of luck.
Most people know that sticking your hand into a 350F oven doesn't really hurt for quite some time (assuming you don't touch something inside...), but touching a 212F column of steam will hurt quite quickly.
Well, if it's truely steam and not hot water vapour, you're also absorbing the ~2250 joules/gram of latent heat as the water phase changes from gas to liquid upon contact with your hand. Steam will burn you much more quickly than near-boiling water will.
Eggs do have a membrane at one end that seals off a little air pocket. I was told that when the egg hatches the chick punctures this membrane to give it an air supply untill it cracks the shell, but I don't know if that's true.
Still depends though. If you work an extra 10 hrs/week all year for that $3500, it works out to $6.73/hr. Burger flipping salary.
;-)
On the other hand, if you had to work 50 hrs/week just to keep your job, then it's a nice bone to be tossed.
I don't think there are many positions outside of sales or executive level that really offer a decent bonus potential. Conversely, if the business misses a revenue goal and they don't pay out bonuses that quarter, I'm not devastated either.
Given the choice, I'd rather go home at 5 than 6. I could always mow lawns if I needed the money
Hmmm, I'm using Notes 6 and I have a Size column. You may have to customize your mail view if it's not in there by default. If you couldn't see the message size, you should have yelled at your Notes admin for having a crappy mail db template.
Not that I don't loathe Notes, because I do. Decent groupware, but absolutely horrendous email client. I'm actually looking forward to when they switch us over to Outlook, of all things. We'll keep Notes around for the databases, which is all it ever should have been used for in the first place.
Our policy, IIRC: Loose outgoing mail at 250MB, incoming mail starts bouncing at 300MB.
"Love the sinner but hate the sin", can be a lot harder on the sinner in some instances. I'm sorry, but I just don't have it in me. There are probably people out there who can manage to have a caring friendship with someone who votes away your rights, but I'm not one of them.
"Bum me a fag mate, and while your at it, mind if I fuck your monkey?"