Wait a moment now. It's high time that people stopped confusing public institutions with private citizens.
Consider "privacy." The government must show that it has a damn good reason for rifling through the papers and effects of a private individual. At the same time, the private individual has right to know what his government is up to-- and the government must have a damn good reason for preventing individuals from rifling through government papers.
Police are minions of the government. While on duty, they shouldn't have the freedom of action that is the right of private individuals. Their duties and actions should be limited to what the government is empowered to do.
People can do whatever the hell they want, with certain limited exceptions. Governments shouldn't be able do much of anything, beyond certain limited exceptions.
Don't confuse the public and the private. As concepts, they are useful only as long as they remain separate.
If the facts are on your side, bang on the facts. If the law is on your side, bang on the law. If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, bang on the table.
Slashdot's filter urges us
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
It therefore follows that when a lawyer uses many caps, he's banging on the table, and neither the facts nor the law are on his side, and it's not worth the time or effort to go through those clauses. So we skip through them. This is what the lawyers want. Their client insist on putting ridiculous clauses in these agreements, and the lawyers, afraid of offending both judge and client, compromise: the words go in, but they have no effect.
Anyway, one of those Uppercased clauses reads--
You expressly agree that your use of, or inability to use, the itunes service is at your sole risk. The itunes service and all products and services delivered to you through the itunes service are (except as expressly stated by apple) provided "as is" and "as available" for your use, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and noninfringement. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, the above exclusion of implied warranties may not apply to you.
In no case shall apple, its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, or licensors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of any of the itunes service or for any other claim related in any way to your use of the itunes service, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content (or product) posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the itunes service, even if advised of their possibility. Because some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states or jurisdictions, apple's liability shall be limited to the extent permitted by law.
I've lowercased the text so that it's more readable. Hopefully, this will not activate the clauses.
Canon Printer Drivers v2.5 for Mac OS X v10.6 This update installs the latest software for your printer or scanner. April 13, 2011 - 307.23 MB
Here's a point upgrade:
Mac OS X v10.6.7 Update The 10.6.7 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. March 21, 2011 - 475 MB
An Xcode update? That'll be 4.25 Gigabytes, please. 100 Megabytes is peanuts.
Now, utilization starts to go up, and the T1 is getting close to saturation. You look and see that it really is only caused by one or two users, and it isn't very often.
Those one or two users are "first adopters." The other eight will shortly follow.
Treason is very difficult to prove. Drake wasn't even charged with Treason. Espionage is less difficult to prove, but the government lacked compelling evidence for those charge as well. And so on it it went, down the line, until what was left was "unauthorized use of a computer". I suppose that if "ex post facto laws" were not unconstitutional, the feds might have been able to invent the crime of "similar to espionage", but they can't.
According to the US Government, Drake is neither a spy, nor a traitor.
That's absurd. Even if we were to assume that productive mathematical careers are proportional to adult lifespan, the statistic you're trying to use is mean life expectancy at birth. It's dragged down by infant mortality.
Yes, that does seem paltry. And it does put a dent in my theory. It turns out that the age limit is merely traditional.
.. though there is no formal age limit for recipients, the medals have traditionally been presented to mathematicians not older than forty years of age, as an encouragement for future achievement.
It's annual, like the Nobel Prize. The prize amount is similar to that of the Nobels. Like the Nobel Peace Prize, it's presented by the King of Norway. There's no age limit.
I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. To take a simple illustration at a comparatively humble level, the average age of election to the Royal Society is lowest in mathematics. We can naturally find much more striking illustrations. We may consider, for example, the career of a man who was certainly one of the world's three greatest mathematicians. Newton gave up mathe- matics at fifty, and had lost his enthusiasm long before; he had recognized no doubt by the time he was forty that his greatest creative days were over. His greatest idea of all, fluxions and the law of gravitation, came to him about 1666 , when he was twenty- four—'in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention, and minded mathematics and philosophy more than at any time sine'. He made big discoveries until he was nearly forty (the 'elliptic orbit' at thirty-seven), but after that he did little but polish and perfect. Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work a good deal later; Gauss's great memoir on differential geometry was published when he was fifty (though he had had the fundamental ideas ten years before). I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. If a man of mature age loses interest in and abandons mathematics, the loss is not likely to be very serious either for mathematics or for himself.
One of the ostensible purposes of such prizes is to subsidize further research. If the recipient of a Fields Medal is past his or her prime, the monies will be wasted, Hardy's observation may no longer hold, but old traditions die hard.
You can't take camera-phones into a courthouse or most other public facilities, you can't leave them at the desk, and it's not easy to find a smart-phone without a camera.
I was called up for jury duty last week-- the guard in the main lobby collected cell phones upon our arrival, and returned them as we left. Maybe it's different for visitors who aren't being chaperoned all day.
The advantage of a card reader is that it doesn't drain the batteries. And, if you're lucky enough to have the right kind of camera, you can use a card reader to hack the firmware.
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So? It's his second amendment right to have a gun. You haplophobes freak out over the slightest things.
Wait a moment now. It's high time that people stopped confusing public institutions with private citizens.
Consider "privacy." The government must show that it has a damn good reason for rifling through the papers and effects of a private individual. At the same time, the private individual has right to know what his government is up to-- and the government must have a damn good reason for preventing individuals from rifling through government papers.
Police are minions of the government. While on duty, they shouldn't have the freedom of action that is the right of private individuals. Their duties and actions should be limited to what the government is empowered to do.
People can do whatever the hell they want, with certain limited exceptions. Governments shouldn't be able do much of anything, beyond certain limited exceptions.
Don't confuse the public and the private. As concepts, they are useful only as long as they remain separate.
Yes
Now, now, we shouldn't jump to conclusions. Perhaps we should postpone the discussion until after we've all had a chance to read the documents.
That's strange. The Library of Congress gives readers passes out to most anybody who applies.
Seymour Cray would be rolling in his grave if he heard you talking about his beloved supercomputers as if they were glorified refrigerators.
Oh.... wait.... Never Mind.
A wise lawyer once said:
If the facts are on your side, bang on the facts. If the law is on your side, bang on the law. If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, bang on the table.
Slashdot's filter urges us
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
It therefore follows that when a lawyer uses many caps, he's banging on the table, and neither the facts nor the law are on his side, and it's not worth the time or effort to go through those clauses. So we skip through them. This is what the lawyers want. Their client insist on putting ridiculous clauses in these agreements, and the lawyers, afraid of offending both judge and client, compromise: the words go in, but they have no effect.
Anyway, one of those Uppercased clauses reads--
You expressly agree that your use of, or inability to use, the itunes service is at your sole risk. The itunes service and all products and services delivered to you through the itunes service are (except as expressly stated by apple) provided "as is" and "as available" for your use, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and noninfringement. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, the above exclusion of implied warranties may not apply to you.
In no case shall apple, its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, or licensors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of any of the itunes service or for any other claim related in any way to your use of the itunes service, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content (or product) posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the itunes service, even if advised of their possibility. Because some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states or jurisdictions, apple's liability shall be limited to the extent permitted by law.
I've lowercased the text so that it's more readable. Hopefully, this will not activate the clauses.
Unless you spend 10 hours a day watching Netflix
Your kids just might. The average American spends 4 hours a day watching TV; why not 4 hours of netflix for each member of the family?
100MB of patches from Apple or Microsoft
Here's a list of Apple Patches.
My favorite?
Canon Printer Drivers v2.5 for Mac OS X v10.6
This update installs the latest software for your printer or scanner.
April 13, 2011 - 307.23 MB
Here's a point upgrade:
Mac OS X v10.6.7 Update
The 10.6.7 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.
March 21, 2011 - 475 MB
An Xcode update? That'll be 4.25 Gigabytes, please.
100 Megabytes is peanuts.
Now, utilization starts to go up, and the T1 is getting close to saturation. You look and see that it really is only caused by one or two users, and it isn't very often.
Those one or two users are "first adopters." The other eight will shortly follow.
dolby digital? PCM is better: use dts-HD Master Audio if you need to save bandwidth. I don't normally bother with surround channels.
Hey-- that's right. Obama should just use contractors. Or activate skynet.
We don't hang people in the United States. We play "doctor" with them.
The US rail network is designed around low speed freight. Passengers, however, usually demand to be ferried around at speeds faster than 25 mph.
That link requires AGU membership. For non-members: Feulner and Rahmstorf's paper (pdf)
Treason is very difficult to prove. Drake wasn't even charged with Treason. Espionage is less difficult to prove, but the government lacked compelling evidence for those charge as well. And so on it it went, down the line, until what was left was "unauthorized use of a computer". I suppose that if "ex post facto laws" were not unconstitutional, the feds might have been able to invent the crime of "similar to espionage", but they can't.
According to the US Government, Drake is neither a spy, nor a traitor.
Our brain is well suited to work with visual clues, and computers soon learned to use that.
What will computers think up next?
That's absurd. Even if we were to assume that productive mathematical careers are proportional to adult lifespan, the statistic you're trying to use is mean life expectancy at birth. It's dragged down by infant mortality.
Yes, that does seem paltry. And it does put a dent in my theory. It turns out that the age limit is merely traditional.
.. though there is no formal age limit for recipients, the medals have traditionally been presented to mathematicians not older than forty years of age, as an encouragement for future achievement.
source/a
There's also the Abel Prize
It's annual, like the Nobel Prize.
The prize amount is similar to that of the Nobels.
Like the Nobel Peace Prize, it's presented by the King of Norway.
There's no age limit.
That was Martha Washington.
If your partner "made love like an eagle falling out of the sky", you would probably scream too.
G.H. Hardy wrote:
I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. To take a simple illustration at a comparatively humble level, the average age of election to the Royal Society is lowest in mathematics. We can naturally find much more striking illustrations. We may consider, for example, the career of a man who was certainly one of the world's three greatest mathematicians. Newton gave up mathe- matics at fifty, and had lost his enthusiasm long before; he had recognized no doubt by the time he was forty that his greatest creative days were over. His greatest idea of all, fluxions and the law of gravitation, came to him about 1666 , when he was twenty- four—'in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention, and minded mathematics and philosophy more than at any time sine'. He made big discoveries until he was nearly forty (the 'elliptic orbit' at thirty-seven), but after that he did little but polish and perfect.
Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work a good deal later; Gauss's great memoir on differential geometry was published when he was fifty (though he had had the fundamental ideas ten years before). I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. If a man of mature age loses interest in and abandons mathematics, the loss is not likely to be very serious either for mathematics or for himself.
One of the ostensible purposes of such prizes is to subsidize further research. If the recipient of a Fields Medal is past his or her prime, the monies will be wasted, Hardy's observation may no longer hold, but old traditions die hard.
You can't take camera-phones into a courthouse or most other public facilities, you can't leave them at the desk, and it's not easy to find a smart-phone without a camera.
I was called up for jury duty last week-- the guard in the main lobby collected cell phones upon our arrival, and returned them as we left. Maybe it's different for visitors who aren't being chaperoned all day.
The advantage of a card reader is that it doesn't drain the batteries. And, if you're lucky enough to have the right kind of camera, you can use a card reader to hack the firmware.
Who needs auto focus, anyway?