If the entity requesting the poly then declines to hire you, then you are better off, than if you consent and they fail you on the poly.
Yeah, but you are worse off than if you consent and pass - which is the most likely result. And you are not much worse off when you fail than if you don't consent. They might add your failing result to your records, but they would probably also add the refusal to your records (troublemaker + potentially hiding something). If you don't want to consent to the test you are better off not applying.
Well, the sanity level of any large organization (be it private or state-run) tends to be fairly low. If you want to restrict yourself to only apply at fundamentally sane employers, you don't have a lot of choices. Running your own company or working for a small (and sane) company, tends to mean that you'll have customers with rather restricted sanity - which is not much of an improvement.
Typically your options are to learn to live with the surrounding madness, or try to change it in some small way - which is better than nothing but will not work all that frequently.
Also if all sane people avoid these agencies, then things will definitely not get better there. This might be an important consideration for people willing to apply to them.
Well it's been quite a few years now since I was driving in Brazil, so this may be out of date. However the problem I'd encountered in rural Brazil was that there were no reflectors on the side of the road, no reflective markings on the road itself etc. So driving with the headlights on was a considerably different experience than in Europe or the US, you really didn't much guidance for the road ahead. It was quite scary driving, actually.
Well the product on the website you linked costs $39.99 - the product from TFA is $10 - $15, so I'd say no it wouldn't be cheaper. Also the Nokero lamp is really a more suitable design for indoor use. I don't think it's a technological breakthrough, but it seems like a design which is well-suited for the application.
Well, as always when it comes to security: whether the method is suitable depends on the attack scenario you want to protect yourself against. Neither a password nor face recognition provides significant protection against someone with a screw driver who manages to get physical access to the machine. If you want to protect the data on the disk, you need to encrypt the data and use a strong password. If you want to protect against someone making off with the laptop you need a physical lock, so you can attach the device to something hard to move when you can't keep a close watch on it.
If you use the machines in a company setting and you want to retain your company's ability to sue if someone copies data off the laptop while the employee is out at lunch - then this face recognition mechanism is probably enough to show you've made a "reasonable effort" to protect your data. (You can actually lose your right to sue if you can't show that.) As a benefit you would still avoid having to reset the password once a week for the more distracted of your users.
Personally its crazy that we rant on about the future with global warming and stuff. Talk about multi-billion dollar carbon credits, bail out failed banks to the tune of hundreds of billions, and then can't fund a 20 year project 20-40billion over the *lifetime* of the project.
Not sure why you attempt to make a connection there with global warming - if this project runs for 20 years, then we have basically a clear guarantee that fusion will not be working for at least 20 years. And it's not like the goal of the project was to produce a commercially viable reactor at the end, is it? This is physics research spending - it's certainly important to spend money on this kind of research, but not in terms of expecting a solution for a specific economical or engineering problem. In the end of this we may find out that the approach isn't viable and that's a valid result, not a failure.
It may also be awkward because it's a hand-held device. Sitting in front of a PC you can adjust the webcam so that you are in the middle of the picture and forget about it. With a hand-held you wouldn't you need to hold the device at the right angle all the time? I can't imagine that to be a lot of fun.
Henning Wehn has suggested that in a few years the UK should use the sex offender register at polling stations - because by then it will be the most accurate citizen database in the UK.
I'm slightly optimistic about the whole thing - sooner or later we will have so many sex offenders that the term will become meaningless in public perception. (In a legal sense it has already become meaningless.)
All I have to do is procure/install a new Kindle, enter the appropriate account identification, and my books and notes are transferred to the new device. Which, you must admit, is pretty cool. (Hey luddites! The cloud has uses!)
OK, I'll go ahead and admit that: It is cool and it does have uses. However it has problems, too.
To give a very very specific example: Amazon has recently suspended my account. It's not that they told me about it - it's just that my password suddenly stopped working, and when going through the password reset process I found the new one wasn't working either. Only when I contacted them through their contact form did they actually tell me that they suspended the account. They said they were investigating something with another similar account which had a problem. They didn't tell me what they were investigating, they didn't tell me how long they were planning to investigate, just asked me for "patience". The email can't be replied to either. To give some context: I checked my records, and I have been buying stuff from them since at least 1997, as far as I am aware they never had the slightest problem with me in that time.
I did some web searching and it seems that this sort of thing is something Amazon does fairly often, they seem to have some sort of system which they use to try and detect fraud and apparently it triggers on some rather weird things (lives at the same address as someone they had problems with in the past, has the same last name as someone they have problems with... stuff like that). Of course they are entitled to chose who they do business with (and so it should be) so there is really no recourse against this.
As you can imagine I'm fairly pissed at them, but everything I bought from them over the years is still available to me, everything I own I can still use. There are other suppliers of books, mp3s and electronics - if they don't want my business I can and will take it elsewhere.
I'm not sure how much all this would affect me if I owned a Kindle, but I don't think I would want to buy one now. (Well, it's not like they'd let me anyway...)
I'll take this as a reminder not to entrust anything important to "the cloud" and continue not to buy DRM products.
The inconvenience of paper voting (many hundreds of people couldn't vote in the UK due to various issues related to this, and unexpected voter turnout) will push us towards electronic, probably internet voting whether we like it or not.
Maybe, but why not shift the election to a Sunday (or make election day a public holiday) as a first measure? It might help if voting was spread out more evenly over the course of the day.
Why does any organism engage in any behavior: either shaping by genetics or shaping by environment. Either way, it's the reward based feedback system that creates altruism.
The terminology is arbitrary and awkward though. Altruism has a benefit not for the individual but for it's descendents, other relatives or other members of it's species. So saving someone from drowning might have the effect of making yourself feel good (at the risk of losing your own life), but so would taking his money (while he is drowning) and then going partying with some hookers. Now when someone chooses to make himself feel good by pursuing the former option instead of the latter, we would call that altruistic behaviour. Someone picking the hooker option to make himself feel good we'd call selfish. You might as well say that we have a built-in sense of altruism it fits the terms and the behaviour.
Also even if acting altruistic makes you feel good, that on it's own does not imply that you are doing it because it makes you feel good. If you jump in front of a car to save your child, you are not calculating: "hey saving my child's life will make me feel good" - it's instinctive you are not even thinking about it. So it's not a rewards-based system which will train you to always pick the option "save the child".
Come on now - in the amount field they put "$29.95" in gray as a suggestion, next to that field they state "For instance: 10, 20.50, or 100.00". Can they really make it more clear? They are happy with the $20 - you want the games, go download them and give them the $20.
BTW: the experiment is not useless - it doesn't matter if some people don't want to buy now, or don't want to buy a bundle, or whatever. They want to see if it's worthwhile for them to make such an offer - it's not relevant for that why some people don't take the offer. If you want them to do that again in the future, you need to give them some money. Even if it's just a dollar.
If you feel you got too good of a deal and don't have more cash now - why not give something charity at a later date?
Of being beaten up by police. It's not enough that they beat people with impunity, they want to throw them in jail for the offense of being punching bags.
If Apples approval process means that you only get to use applications which a guy with a stick up his ass aproves - well that's news. Regardless whether they have the right to do it - now they have actually done it, and that's interesting information. We have the right to discuss it and base our purchasing decisions on it.
We have a defacto two party system only because too many Americans have been brainwashed to believe there is no third (or 4th-nth) option.
Well there seems to be a strong correlation between two party systems and first past the post voting systems. Canada and the UK have one as well. It's not impossible to establish a third party or to replace a party in a two party system (i.e. transitioning to another two party system), but the barrier is very high.
First off, there is the pretty much proven idea that people that find children as acceptable sex partners (willingly or unwillingly) aren't going to change. Period. Nothing that we know of today will change this.
I think this conflates pedophilia and sex with minors. I agree, if someone has a fixation on prepubescent children (which is what pedophilia is) then that sexual fixation can probably no more be changed than any other sexual orientation. However wanting to have sex with someone who looks old enough but really isn't - that alone doesn't get into the way of him finding partners who are old enough.
for 20 years now malware targets mostly DOS/Windows, yet these guys still use exactly that
Like everyone else on the planet. Not that it matters whether you access webmail via Linux or via Windows.
the main vector of malware coming in is via e-mail attachments, yet these guys keep clicking on them
Webmail cracked - that's almost certainly not clicking-on-attachments territory, more likely poor password choice. Access to company servers from the inside (employees collaborating with the attackers) is another possible path of attack.
signed e-mails and attachments would make reception thereof fairly safe, yet these guys have no idea about it
Works only on a node-to-node basis. If their contact doesn't have the tools, then they can't use it. Same applies to encryption obviously. Is PGP freely available in China? How long till the government detects that you are using PGP and takes you in for questioning solely based on that fact?
but then these guys probably would feign complete ignorance and amazement over the fact, that especially the totalitarian governments of the world don't exactly work with white gloves
If the Chinese government attacks western computer systems, that's news. It might require a political response, that should be in the public discussion. Regardless, it's certainly worth reporting.
...don't give a shit about your self-aggrandized ego of 'a journalist' and the hallowed freedom of press
Freedom of the press is vital for my freedom and for yours. I think your disdain is completely inappropriate here.
Well the claim that Mussolini, Hitler etc were economically successful was of course put out by the propaganda of these dictatorships. However after the war Germany certainly did very well as a democracy with a market economy, going from an utterly destroyed country to being the world's biggest exporter (see Wirtschaftwunder).
Wiretapping at the ISP level isn't so convenient when the ISP is outside your jurisdiction. Some of the people attacked were based in Taiwan and the US. Also journalists often move around, so you might have to attack many ISPs in order to gain access. In this case it just makes more sense for the Chinese to attack webmail accounts.
Actually for automotive use there are embedded devices available which protect against single-bit errors, like the MPC5643L. It has two CPUs which are running in lockstep and are constantly checked against each other, other measures like ECC protect the memories etc. It's protected against problems like aging as well: it can test it's own logic and memories as part of the startup sequence (built-in self test). Not quite the same standard as in the aviation field, but still an interesting device.
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Yeah, but you are worse off than if you consent and pass - which is the most likely result. And you are not much worse off when you fail than if you don't consent. They might add your failing result to your records, but they would probably also add the refusal to your records (troublemaker + potentially hiding something). If you don't want to consent to the test you are better off not applying.
Typically your options are to learn to live with the surrounding madness, or try to change it in some small way - which is better than nothing but will not work all that frequently.
Also if all sane people avoid these agencies, then things will definitely not get better there. This might be an important consideration for people willing to apply to them.
Well it's been quite a few years now since I was driving in Brazil, so this may be out of date. However the problem I'd encountered in rural Brazil was that there were no reflectors on the side of the road, no reflective markings on the road itself etc. So driving with the headlights on was a considerably different experience than in Europe or the US, you really didn't much guidance for the road ahead. It was quite scary driving, actually.
Well the product on the website you linked costs $39.99 - the product from TFA is $10 - $15, so I'd say no it wouldn't be cheaper. Also the Nokero lamp is really a more suitable design for indoor use. I don't think it's a technological breakthrough, but it seems like a design which is well-suited for the application.
Seems pretty common in hotels all over the world actually. Stayed in the Shangri-La in Hong Kong a few weeks back and they had the same setup.
If you use the machines in a company setting and you want to retain your company's ability to sue if someone copies data off the laptop while the employee is out at lunch - then this face recognition mechanism is probably enough to show you've made a "reasonable effort" to protect your data. (You can actually lose your right to sue if you can't show that.) As a benefit you would still avoid having to reset the password once a week for the more distracted of your users.
Not sure why you attempt to make a connection there with global warming - if this project runs for 20 years, then we have basically a clear guarantee that fusion will not be working for at least 20 years. And it's not like the goal of the project was to produce a commercially viable reactor at the end, is it? This is physics research spending - it's certainly important to spend money on this kind of research, but not in terms of expecting a solution for a specific economical or engineering problem. In the end of this we may find out that the approach isn't viable and that's a valid result, not a failure.
It may also be awkward because it's a hand-held device. Sitting in front of a PC you can adjust the webcam so that you are in the middle of the picture and forget about it. With a hand-held you wouldn't you need to hold the device at the right angle all the time? I can't imagine that to be a lot of fun.
I'm slightly optimistic about the whole thing - sooner or later we will have so many sex offenders that the term will become meaningless in public perception. (In a legal sense it has already become meaningless.)
He is talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
OK, I'll go ahead and admit that: It is cool and it does have uses. However it has problems, too.
To give a very very specific example: Amazon has recently suspended my account. It's not that they told me about it - it's just that my password suddenly stopped working, and when going through the password reset process I found the new one wasn't working either. Only when I contacted them through their contact form did they actually tell me that they suspended the account. They said they were investigating something with another similar account which had a problem. They didn't tell me what they were investigating, they didn't tell me how long they were planning to investigate, just asked me for "patience". The email can't be replied to either. To give some context: I checked my records, and I have been buying stuff from them since at least 1997, as far as I am aware they never had the slightest problem with me in that time.
I did some web searching and it seems that this sort of thing is something Amazon does fairly often, they seem to have some sort of system which they use to try and detect fraud and apparently it triggers on some rather weird things (lives at the same address as someone they had problems with in the past, has the same last name as someone they have problems with ... stuff like that). Of course they are entitled to chose who they do business with (and so it should be) so there is really no recourse against this.
As you can imagine I'm fairly pissed at them, but everything I bought from them over the years is still available to me, everything I own I can still use. There are other suppliers of books, mp3s and electronics - if they don't want my business I can and will take it elsewhere.
I'm not sure how much all this would affect me if I owned a Kindle, but I don't think I would want to buy one now. (Well, it's not like they'd let me anyway ...)
I'll take this as a reminder not to entrust anything important to "the cloud" and continue not to buy DRM products.
About a specific state. It doesn't have to be like this, it is not like this in most western countries and people in the US should demand better.
Maybe, but why not shift the election to a Sunday (or make election day a public holiday) as a first measure? It might help if voting was spread out more evenly over the course of the day.
The terminology is arbitrary and awkward though. Altruism has a benefit not for the individual but for it's descendents, other relatives or other members of it's species. So saving someone from drowning might have the effect of making yourself feel good (at the risk of losing your own life), but so would taking his money (while he is drowning) and then going partying with some hookers. Now when someone chooses to make himself feel good by pursuing the former option instead of the latter, we would call that altruistic behaviour. Someone picking the hooker option to make himself feel good we'd call selfish. You might as well say that we have a built-in sense of altruism it fits the terms and the behaviour.
Also even if acting altruistic makes you feel good, that on it's own does not imply that you are doing it because it makes you feel good. If you jump in front of a car to save your child, you are not calculating: "hey saving my child's life will make me feel good" - it's instinctive you are not even thinking about it. So it's not a rewards-based system which will train you to always pick the option "save the child".
BTW: the experiment is not useless - it doesn't matter if some people don't want to buy now, or don't want to buy a bundle, or whatever. They want to see if it's worthwhile for them to make such an offer - it's not relevant for that why some people don't take the offer. If you want them to do that again in the future, you need to give them some money. Even if it's just a dollar.
If you feel you got too good of a deal and don't have more cash now - why not give something charity at a later date?
Of being beaten up by police. It's not enough that they beat people with impunity, they want to throw them in jail for the offense of being punching bags.
If Apples approval process means that you only get to use applications which a guy with a stick up his ass aproves - well that's news. Regardless whether they have the right to do it - now they have actually done it, and that's interesting information. We have the right to discuss it and base our purchasing decisions on it.
Yeah, but it does mean Wii Fit sales will increase dramatically soon.
Well there seems to be a strong correlation between two party systems and first past the post voting systems. Canada and the UK have one as well. It's not impossible to establish a third party or to replace a party in a two party system (i.e. transitioning to another two party system), but the barrier is very high.
I think this conflates pedophilia and sex with minors. I agree, if someone has a fixation on prepubescent children (which is what pedophilia is) then that sexual fixation can probably no more be changed than any other sexual orientation. However wanting to have sex with someone who looks old enough but really isn't - that alone doesn't get into the way of him finding partners who are old enough.
Like everyone else on the planet. Not that it matters whether you access webmail via Linux or via Windows.
the main vector of malware coming in is via e-mail attachments, yet these guys keep clicking on them
Webmail cracked - that's almost certainly not clicking-on-attachments territory, more likely poor password choice. Access to company servers from the inside (employees collaborating with the attackers) is another possible path of attack.
signed e-mails and attachments would make reception thereof fairly safe, yet these guys have no idea about it
Works only on a node-to-node basis. If their contact doesn't have the tools, then they can't use it. Same applies to encryption obviously. Is PGP freely available in China? How long till the government detects that you are using PGP and takes you in for questioning solely based on that fact?
but then these guys probably would feign complete ignorance and amazement over the fact, that especially the totalitarian governments of the world don't exactly work with white gloves
If the Chinese government attacks western computer systems, that's news. It might require a political response, that should be in the public discussion. Regardless, it's certainly worth reporting.
Freedom of the press is vital for my freedom and for yours. I think your disdain is completely inappropriate here.
Well the claim that Mussolini, Hitler etc were economically successful was of course put out by the propaganda of these dictatorships. However after the war Germany certainly did very well as a democracy with a market economy, going from an utterly destroyed country to being the world's biggest exporter (see Wirtschaftwunder).
Wiretapping at the ISP level isn't so convenient when the ISP is outside your jurisdiction. Some of the people attacked were based in Taiwan and the US. Also journalists often move around, so you might have to attack many ISPs in order to gain access. In this case it just makes more sense for the Chinese to attack webmail accounts.
Yeah, but there'll be fingerprints of the owner all over the device.
Actually for automotive use there are embedded devices available which protect against single-bit errors, like the MPC5643L. It has two CPUs which are running in lockstep and are constantly checked against each other, other measures like ECC protect the memories etc. It's protected against problems like aging as well: it can test it's own logic and memories as part of the startup sequence (built-in self test). Not quite the same standard as in the aviation field, but still an interesting device.