If you stop paying taxes you could go to jail. If you have the money for private school, a more reasonable pursuit would be to sue the city or township to force them to pay for the private school.
Sadly, due to a conflict of interest you'll never get a favorable and just ruling out of a county court. One major fallacy is that courts are perfect arbiters of law because they're independent. In truth, especially at the county level, judges are persuaded by the needs of their community just as much as they are by their interpretation of the law.
I think complainants in civil suits and defendants in criminal cases should be able to ask for a change of venue, for no other reason than because they can't expect a judge in their county to respect the law above all else.
A perfect example is DUI laws. Across the country judges routinely ignore exculpatory evidence because any innocent verdict is a sign of weakness, inability to protect the community from the dangerous drunk drivers and would give away huge amounts of revenue. For example, there was a court case recently where a DWI defendant wanted access to source code for a breathalyzer machine and a judge granted it, but then a higher judge reversed that decision on appeal. That decision wasn't based on logic or an accurate interpretation of law - it was made to protect the states interests in DUI revenue.
A lot of companies use various methods to reduce timecard fraud, including biometric scanning or token clock-in systems such as badges or RFID cards. Universities are no different.
I don't disagree with your sentiment though, I'm just pointing out that this isn't all that unusual. I've worked for several large companies and a few small ones and I've seen a lot of timecard systems. The best implementation I've seen was an RFID card access system for the building and a paper timecard system. The paper system is for flexibility and convenience, but if they suspected you of fraud, they would compare your timecard with the building access logs to see if you were in the building when you were working. This wasn't 100% foolproof because a lot of workers telecommuted, but it did catch fraud with the lowest hourly wage workers where telecommuting wasn't an option.
Both major algorithms need to be able to compare the data from an authoritative database against the test sample.
The reason for this is no two scanners, in fact even the same scanner will not produce identical results for the same fingerprints. There will always be "fuzziness" to the data that the algorithm must interpret.
I am on federal work study right now and I have not had to submit my fingerprints for anything. You have a few options.
Accept that this is the way they track work study hours.
If you can afford it and the privacy concerns are too compelling, decline the work and let them know why in a formal letter. It may go directly to the waste bin but at least you made your reasons known.
Lastly, you can try to change the policy. Contact your student senate for some backing as they're the most likely to listen, although not the most likely to have power to change it. A couple of suggestions: Switch from bio-informatics scanning methods to plain old bar code badges, RFID chips or paper timecards.
My school does work study timecards on paper. It's probably the most likely to be abused, but it is convenient for everyone. I'd be more than happy to use an RFID token or bar code badge for clocking in and out. Wouldn't work very well for my specific job, considering I work from home, but in theory I would accept either.
Your ability to change the policy by force is pretty limited. Employment rights(especially regarding privacy) vary by state when it comes to work study. You could try to contact your local department of labor but it's unlikely they will give you anything other than a headache.
Sort of. More water in the air is a good thing for drought areas, if the water gets where it needs to be and stays there. In some areas, heavy rain typically comes down as a flood and the water isn't retained.
The flooding causes damage but doesn't really help crops. If global warming can increase cloud cover and cause more rain in areas that need it, that is definitely a good thing.
Warming oceans on the other hand isn't great. It's thought to be a primary ingredient for heavy hurricane seasons. I'm no geologist but logic seems to indicate to me that if it gets too hot near the equator, it just won't rain. The air will be supersaturated all the time and will never cool enough to rain.
Your example of cell phones is apt in this case. Innovation in the cell phone industry has been limited to what carriers will allow. I hope Google starts a trend to buck the subsidized phone business.
Cell phones have been capable of so much more for a long time, but in this case the true customers are the carriers - not the end users.
Flash is in an almost identical situation. Allowing even savvy end users to manage their privacy would hamper advertisers efforts to track us. Flash is a dominant force because everyone uses it. If there is fragmentation, Adobe will lose it's power, mindshare and eventually its revenue.
I'm not against interpreted languages or virtual machine bytecode executors per se, but I am against Mono. I've used it, it just isn't ready for prime time and I don't want it on my phone.
This isn't even a comprehensive list of mobile phone operating systems. There are others, and more on the way.
None of them use the same GUI toolkits, and even have more fundamental differences such as a lack or presence of multitasking. There was an initial mad dash for Windows CE because of the perceived time to market improvement but the market quickly regained its sanity after realizing CE wasn't all that good.
In short, Mr. Anonymous Coward was right, although chose not to elaborate why. Unless all the mobile phone makers settle on one GUI toolkit such as GTK, Qt, etc., there is no easy way for one app developer to target all the phones out there.
If such a test were implemented for software patents I would be a happy camper. There are so many software patents that are merely digital adaptations of things invented long ago, or mere incremental progression from existing software that I just don't think they should be patentable.
Only true innovation should be patentable, software or otherwise.
Climate research is a political black hole. It's nice to talk about and support change in theory, but when it comes to action, the fiscal ramifications relegate serious change to a 25 or 50 year plan.
We can improve auto efficiency all we want, we can try to change household energy consumption habits all we want, but until a real technological replacement for coal plants is solved we will never turn things around. Over a billion people around the planet live in destitution and burn wood fires for cooking daily. Many billions more are getting their power from dirty coal plants.
There isn't much in climate change that is politically beneficial, except to admit that the problem exists and we're pretending to work hard on solving it.
Why should your thoughts on religion dictate what I do in my own bedroom? The closest comparison I can draw between a lot of religious Christian conservatives is that of the Muslim conservatives who support sharia.
They believe so strongly that their own faith is the One True Path that they desire to enforce their views on everyone else. As an ex-Jehovah's Witness, I have a lot of experience with religious extremism, puritans and monotheism. The founding fathers of our country were so certain that the business of government and religion should be separate that they made the first amendment to the constitution, no the first ten words of the first amendment to say "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".
In short, my government shouldn't be enacting laws that represent your religious beliefs. If you disagree so strongly with our founding fathers, why don't you fucking leave this country and go somewhere else.
More often than not, laws are enacted to coincide with a subset of the populations definition of morality. For example, anti-sodomy laws are supported by some christians who believe such acts to be immoral, despite the fact that what goes on behind bedroom doors doesn't affect the people outside the bedroom.
This is an example where the morality of the minority(legislators) can disagree with the morality of the people. Or at least a statistically significant number of people.
Indeed. The text of the law says it should not be construed to authorize censorship or infringe upon freedom of speech but I just don't see how you can do that.
This law is a ace up the sleeve for selective prosecution, nothing else.
Iran has already shown many times before that they have centralized control over all inbound/outbound peering. Every time they block facebook or some other website they demonstrate that.
As others have noted, gmail now uses HTTPS by default. With Iran's centralized peering, they also likely had deep packet inspection to log all webmail emails going into and out of the country. If gmail is using HTTPS, a MITM attack like that doesn't work nearly so easily.
This is just a way for Iran to regain their previous spying abilities.
If the US government tried that, I'd tell them to take a flying leap. I run my own mail server because even google and yahoo don't strike me as sensitive to my privacy desires.
Isn't this in direct contradiction to something PayPal said a day or two ago? Something akin to "golly gee we're not sure what happened but we're looking into it".
On another note, this applies to private transactions only, not commercial ones. This directly affects any freelancers who aren't operating as a company though, such as Rent-A-Coder, et. al.
I think it's important here to make a distinction between an ACH transaction and a wire transfer. My limited understanding of paypal leads me to believe they primarily effect transactions through as an ACH, instead of a wire transfer through the Swift or Fedwire network.
There are strict regulations on wire transfers in the US under the UCC, but little regulating the fees banks can charge. US domestic wires often cost from $10-$25 depending on whether you're receiving or sending the money. Wire transfers in europe are a lot more popular and negotiations through the EU have led to very low or completely absent wire transfer fees.
Wire transfers are still the best way to move money internationally, or to move large amounts of money safely. In the US though, the ACH network is much cheaper.
Diamond polishing plates don't work like sandpaper, they work more like a type 1 surface grinder, but reverse. The table spins very quickly and is a hard substrate with impregnated diamond or a diamond paste and your work is held against the polishing plate.
This has the effect of preventing what you described above. In your example, the wood is worn down more than the nail head because sandpaper is flexible and with each movement you are applying pressure to both the wood and the nail head through the paper.
In the case of this supposed super-hard diamond, this isn't the case. A hard plate with diamond paste won't flex like that. The material around the super-hard diamond parts would be worn down from the paste trapped between the plate and the underlying material. The difference in height between the harder bump and the removed material below is a function of workholding rigidity, axial runout of the table, grit size and hardness of the raised surface.
Unless you're a professional diamond polisher or a grinding specialist, I'm not really interested in your thoughts on the matter.
Even movement on foot without law enforcement impediment is impossible. Judges have consistently upheld in many states that you must provide your name to police officers upon request, and that failure to do so can result in arrest. 24 states have a explicit stop & identify statute, although they all differ quite a lot.
It's good to note here that if asked for your name and you wish to refuse, invoke the 5th amendment before giving the police a false name. Providing a false name to police is a crime in a lot of states.
This would actually be the best-case result of wide millimeter-wave scanner deployment.
A single leak with even tens of pictures of travelers would disprove much of what the government and scanner manufacturers have been saying. They say they cannot store images except in a debug mode, which airport staff cannot enable. If they lied about that, what else did they lie about? The public would be enraged quickly.
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If you stop paying taxes you could go to jail. If you have the money for private school, a more reasonable pursuit would be to sue the city or township to force them to pay for the private school.
Sadly, due to a conflict of interest you'll never get a favorable and just ruling out of a county court. One major fallacy is that courts are perfect arbiters of law because they're independent. In truth, especially at the county level, judges are persuaded by the needs of their community just as much as they are by their interpretation of the law.
I think complainants in civil suits and defendants in criminal cases should be able to ask for a change of venue, for no other reason than because they can't expect a judge in their county to respect the law above all else.
A perfect example is DUI laws. Across the country judges routinely ignore exculpatory evidence because any innocent verdict is a sign of weakness, inability to protect the community from the dangerous drunk drivers and would give away huge amounts of revenue. For example, there was a court case recently where a DWI defendant wanted access to source code for a breathalyzer machine and a judge granted it, but then a higher judge reversed that decision on appeal. That decision wasn't based on logic or an accurate interpretation of law - it was made to protect the states interests in DUI revenue.
A lot of companies use various methods to reduce timecard fraud, including biometric scanning or token clock-in systems such as badges or RFID cards. Universities are no different.
I don't disagree with your sentiment though, I'm just pointing out that this isn't all that unusual. I've worked for several large companies and a few small ones and I've seen a lot of timecard systems. The best implementation I've seen was an RFID card access system for the building and a paper timecard system. The paper system is for flexibility and convenience, but if they suspected you of fraud, they would compare your timecard with the building access logs to see if you were in the building when you were working. This wasn't 100% foolproof because a lot of workers telecommuted, but it did catch fraud with the lowest hourly wage workers where telecommuting wasn't an option.
Wouldn't work, for technical reasons.
Both major algorithms need to be able to compare the data from an authoritative database against the test sample.
The reason for this is no two scanners, in fact even the same scanner will not produce identical results for the same fingerprints. There will always be "fuzziness" to the data that the algorithm must interpret.
I am on federal work study right now and I have not had to submit my fingerprints for anything. You have a few options.
Accept that this is the way they track work study hours.
If you can afford it and the privacy concerns are too compelling, decline the work and let them know why in a formal letter. It may go directly to the waste bin but at least you made your reasons known.
Lastly, you can try to change the policy. Contact your student senate for some backing as they're the most likely to listen, although not the most likely to have power to change it. A couple of suggestions: Switch from bio-informatics scanning methods to plain old bar code badges, RFID chips or paper timecards.
My school does work study timecards on paper. It's probably the most likely to be abused, but it is convenient for everyone. I'd be more than happy to use an RFID token or bar code badge for clocking in and out. Wouldn't work very well for my specific job, considering I work from home, but in theory I would accept either.
Your ability to change the policy by force is pretty limited. Employment rights(especially regarding privacy) vary by state when it comes to work study. You could try to contact your local department of labor but it's unlikely they will give you anything other than a headache.
Sort of. More water in the air is a good thing for drought areas, if the water gets where it needs to be and stays there. In some areas, heavy rain typically comes down as a flood and the water isn't retained.
The flooding causes damage but doesn't really help crops. If global warming can increase cloud cover and cause more rain in areas that need it, that is definitely a good thing.
Warming oceans on the other hand isn't great. It's thought to be a primary ingredient for heavy hurricane seasons. I'm no geologist but logic seems to indicate to me that if it gets too hot near the equator, it just won't rain. The air will be supersaturated all the time and will never cool enough to rain.
That's just a guess though.
Your example of cell phones is apt in this case. Innovation in the cell phone industry has been limited to what carriers will allow. I hope Google starts a trend to buck the subsidized phone business.
Cell phones have been capable of so much more for a long time, but in this case the true customers are the carriers - not the end users.
Flash is in an almost identical situation. Allowing even savvy end users to manage their privacy would hamper advertisers efforts to track us. Flash is a dominant force because everyone uses it. If there is fragmentation, Adobe will lose it's power, mindshare and eventually its revenue.
I agree with Dishevel. I don't want Adobe anywhere near my phone. I don't trust them with my privacy. I also don't trust them to make it secure.
The last thing I need is a rooted phone because Adobe doesn't understand how to sandbox javascript apps from each other sanely.
I'm not against interpreted languages or virtual machine bytecode executors per se, but I am against Mono. I've used it, it just isn't ready for prime time and I don't want it on my phone.
PalmOS, Symbian, Windows CE, Android, Blackberry OS, iPhone OS, webOS, Linux, Maemo.
This isn't even a comprehensive list of mobile phone operating systems. There are others, and more on the way.
None of them use the same GUI toolkits, and even have more fundamental differences such as a lack or presence of multitasking. There was an initial mad dash for Windows CE because of the perceived time to market improvement but the market quickly regained its sanity after realizing CE wasn't all that good.
In short, Mr. Anonymous Coward was right, although chose not to elaborate why. Unless all the mobile phone makers settle on one GUI toolkit such as GTK, Qt, etc., there is no easy way for one app developer to target all the phones out there.
If such a test were implemented for software patents I would be a happy camper. There are so many software patents that are merely digital adaptations of things invented long ago, or mere incremental progression from existing software that I just don't think they should be patentable.
Only true innovation should be patentable, software or otherwise.
True, it does have awk, sed and a few other handy utilities but it doesn't include other things you might like, such as python.
Political benefactors?
Climate research is a political black hole. It's nice to talk about and support change in theory, but when it comes to action, the fiscal ramifications relegate serious change to a 25 or 50 year plan.
We can improve auto efficiency all we want, we can try to change household energy consumption habits all we want, but until a real technological replacement for coal plants is solved we will never turn things around. Over a billion people around the planet live in destitution and burn wood fires for cooking daily. Many billions more are getting their power from dirty coal plants.
There isn't much in climate change that is politically beneficial, except to admit that the problem exists and we're pretending to work hard on solving it.
Why should your thoughts on religion dictate what I do in my own bedroom? The closest comparison I can draw between a lot of religious Christian conservatives is that of the Muslim conservatives who support sharia.
They believe so strongly that their own faith is the One True Path that they desire to enforce their views on everyone else. As an ex-Jehovah's Witness, I have a lot of experience with religious extremism, puritans and monotheism. The founding fathers of our country were so certain that the business of government and religion should be separate that they made the first amendment to the constitution, no the first ten words of the first amendment to say "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".
In short, my government shouldn't be enacting laws that represent your religious beliefs. If you disagree so strongly with our founding fathers, why don't you fucking leave this country and go somewhere else.
Just FYI, you wouldn't need cygwin anyway. There is the minimal GNU system for windows, which is a native port of some basic GNU tools to windows.
I use it quite a lot with mostly satisfactory results.
More often than not, laws are enacted to coincide with a subset of the populations definition of morality. For example, anti-sodomy laws are supported by some christians who believe such acts to be immoral, despite the fact that what goes on behind bedroom doors doesn't affect the people outside the bedroom.
This is an example where the morality of the minority(legislators) can disagree with the morality of the people. Or at least a statistically significant number of people.
Indeed. The text of the law says it should not be construed to authorize censorship or infringe upon freedom of speech but I just don't see how you can do that.
This law is a ace up the sleeve for selective prosecution, nothing else.
Iran has already shown many times before that they have centralized control over all inbound/outbound peering. Every time they block facebook or some other website they demonstrate that.
As others have noted, gmail now uses HTTPS by default. With Iran's centralized peering, they also likely had deep packet inspection to log all webmail emails going into and out of the country. If gmail is using HTTPS, a MITM attack like that doesn't work nearly so easily.
This is just a way for Iran to regain their previous spying abilities.
If the US government tried that, I'd tell them to take a flying leap. I run my own mail server because even google and yahoo don't strike me as sensitive to my privacy desires.
Isn't this in direct contradiction to something PayPal said a day or two ago? Something akin to "golly gee we're not sure what happened but we're looking into it".
On another note, this applies to private transactions only, not commercial ones. This directly affects any freelancers who aren't operating as a company though, such as Rent-A-Coder, et. al.
Wish I had mod points. This pretty much makes this entire slashdot story pointless.
I think it's important here to make a distinction between an ACH transaction and a wire transfer. My limited understanding of paypal leads me to believe they primarily effect transactions through as an ACH, instead of a wire transfer through the Swift or Fedwire network.
There are strict regulations on wire transfers in the US under the UCC, but little regulating the fees banks can charge. US domestic wires often cost from $10-$25 depending on whether you're receiving or sending the money. Wire transfers in europe are a lot more popular and negotiations through the EU have led to very low or completely absent wire transfer fees.
Wire transfers are still the best way to move money internationally, or to move large amounts of money safely. In the US though, the ACH network is much cheaper.
Diamond polishing plates don't work like sandpaper, they work more like a type 1 surface grinder, but reverse. The table spins very quickly and is a hard substrate with impregnated diamond or a diamond paste and your work is held against the polishing plate.
This has the effect of preventing what you described above. In your example, the wood is worn down more than the nail head because sandpaper is flexible and with each movement you are applying pressure to both the wood and the nail head through the paper.
In the case of this supposed super-hard diamond, this isn't the case. A hard plate with diamond paste won't flex like that. The material around the super-hard diamond parts would be worn down from the paste trapped between the plate and the underlying material. The difference in height between the harder bump and the removed material below is a function of workholding rigidity, axial runout of the table, grit size and hardness of the raised surface.
Unless you're a professional diamond polisher or a grinding specialist, I'm not really interested in your thoughts on the matter.
I just tried it and fell asleep. Is that a sign I'm getting old?
Even movement on foot without law enforcement impediment is impossible. Judges have consistently upheld in many states that you must provide your name to police officers upon request, and that failure to do so can result in arrest. 24 states have a explicit stop & identify statute, although they all differ quite a lot.
It's good to note here that if asked for your name and you wish to refuse, invoke the 5th amendment before giving the police a false name. Providing a false name to police is a crime in a lot of states.
This would actually be the best-case result of wide millimeter-wave scanner deployment.
A single leak with even tens of pictures of travelers would disprove much of what the government and scanner manufacturers have been saying. They say they cannot store images except in a debug mode, which airport staff cannot enable. If they lied about that, what else did they lie about? The public would be enraged quickly.