Would you seriously use a service that won't work in heavy winds and rain?
At that height (50K+ feet), it doesn't rain, I can assure you.
They should use the AeroVironment UAV instead of pilotted aircraft?
Stop to think for a minute. Why are these children working for Nike? Surely their parents would rather have them playing in the yard or going to school. There is quite a simple answer these childeren work for nike because their parents cannot provide for them and they would otherwise starve.
No, you ignoramus. These children are working for Nike because children's hands are small and therefore children can do the job quicker. I know this, because I've been to carpet factories in India where children were hired to do the weaving for this exact reason.
What you Nike-proponents and capitalism-freaks don't realise is that by hiring children for these tasks, Nike is perpetuating the cycle of poverty: kids who work in these factories can't get educated, and when they grow up they send their kids to these factories, ad infinitum.
The broader question is: just because the local laws don't forbid something, is it OK to do it?
Here is an example. Just because laws in country X don't forbid child pornography, is it OK to go to that country in indulge in such activities with poor kids? Of course not! Even if the money you gave those kids in return was a LOT, it would still be immoral.
Lesseee.. the article says that it takes 100ms for a packet to circle the entire network. That means an average latency of 50ms. Jeez! Thats slower than a Winchester disk from 30 years ago!!
Here is something that most of the posters in this thread probably don't know.
Space Imaging is the only (major?) company out there that is commercializing satellite imagery. You can buy satellite images of any spot on the earth for a small chunk'a change. Now, did you know that 4 out of 7 satellites used by SapceImaging to take these shots are Indian ? Checkout the Satellite Constellation page for more details; the IRS* satellites are all Indian.
During the Gulf War, all of the space imagery that you saw on the networks and newspapers was from Indian satellites.
Last I heard American military cargo planes touched down on monday to distribute goods. And the US isn't alone
in that aid.
In times of natural calamity, all civilised countries assist each other. When the wildfires in the western parts of the US became widespread, fire-fighting teams from Australia and Canada (among others) came over to help out. IIRC, there were a few counties in Montana which were totally under Canadian firefighters' control, a first for the US.
I mean, 5 km outside of Delhi and it doesn't look like a civilised city!!
I mean, 5 km insideDetroit and it doesn't look like a civilised city.
Your point is...?
ICBM? who needs intercontinental when the country you want to bomb back to the stone age shares a border
with you? I guess you'd want to make sure you could hit EVERY part of pakistan.
What do you mean, back to the stone age? Stone age would be a step forward for Pakistan!
N2H2 spokesman Allen Goldblatt counters that
schools and parents have no reason to be concerned. "This is a real nonissue for us," he says. "This information is so anonymous and vague."
Geee! If this information so "anonymous and vague", why can't I come up with some "anonymous and vague" information and sell it?
Hmmmm.. lesseeee... dd if=/dev/random of=anonymous_n_vague.info bs=1k count=1024
should do it. Anyone want to buy this info?
We ordered a Sun Blade when it came out, back in
November. We still haven't seen it yet. Sun keeps claiming that it will ship Real Soon Now(tm).
It seems to me Sun is trying awfully hard to become the next Micro$oft. Their marketing department is a close second to Micro$oft's when it comes to making tall claims and vaporware.
dennis green at Minnesota is the only one I can think of right now
You are forgetting Ray Rhodes (Green Bay (fired recently)), Tony Dungee (Tampa Bay, doing a good job), etc.
For all who complain about this: do you seriously think that a team owner would care what the color of the skin of his coach is? All that an owner thinks about is winning the damn SuperBowl! They would hire a green martian coach if it gave them the best chance of winning.
Here's a quote from one NFL site on black coaches:
The total number of African-American coaches continues to rise. There are
134 black coaches on 1999 NFL staffs - more than 25 percent of all coaches
- compared to 1998's total of 115. In 1980, by contrast, there were only 14
black coaches in the league. All were assistants.
As for the owners, consider this: not many people can afford the several-hundred-million that is required to buy a pro team. As time goes by, and the black population in the country becomes wealthier, the composition of the owners will change! Just look at Jordan: he bought the Wizards (NBA), and now the Capitals (NHL). Isaiah Thomas is a part owner of the Toronto Raptors (NBA). This has happened over the last few years; as time goes by, more such changes will happen. Why cry racism at this?
From your description I would think the method would be even more valuable if it had a better way than testing randomly generated models to find an optimal set.
Hinton has proposed methods to dependently train his experts, which to me seems a very desirable property.
Using randomly generated models is actually a strength of SD,
the "proof which this margin is too small to contain." <grin>
Oh please! You are taking a physical-world
analogy and applying it to the "electron world"!
This is one of the problems with LEOs today: they
try to carry over incorrect analogies.
What this guy Dillinger did is perfectly legal.
If we kill the curiosity in our college kids, where will the innovations for the next generation come from?
So he pokes around in a crime scene before the cops get there...
What, can't you read? He clearly says that
the person who told him about the breakin got
his information from
The Register
All he can be accused of is gawking.
Haven't you ever rubber-necked at the
scene of an accident?
I see them including gcc 2.96 as a positive thing.
I have a fairly large piece of simulation code
that, for some reason, works slower on
a RH6.0/6.1/6.2 machine than the same code compiled on a RH5.1 machine. In other words,
I have 2 executables: one compiled on RH5.1,
and the other compiled on RH6.x. The 5.1 version
runs 10-20% faster on the same box compared to
the RH6.x compiled version.
But now, with gcc 2.96, the compiler has finally
caught up(!!), and the code runs as fast as
the RH5.1 code. Yay!
The entire U.S. immigration system needs to be overhauled. As it is, it's very hard to
come from European countries to the U.S., since we have quotas on how many people
we want, and we don't want more Caucasians.
Just FYI: the quotas are on a per-country
basis, and not on per race basis. Which
means, only 10,000 people are allowed greencards per year from China
(with its 1.2Billion people), as well
as only 10,000 from tiny Lichtenstein.
In case your math isn't up to snuff, you will
see that people from larger countries (like
China, India, etc.) are the ones who can't get
in in proportional numbers.
Also, the State Department has an annual lottery
for people from countries which are "underrepresented" (i.e., western european
countries, australia, etc.) among immigrants,
and this lottery gives them an instant green-card.
Needless to say, China,India,Mexico,Phillipines
are not in this lottery!
I'm not trying to be racist, or a troll, but... Go home. If you want to come to my country to work. Great! C'mon over. BUT. You
need become a citizen first.
Unfortunately, the path to becoming a citizen
(for most people) starts with getting a visa to
work. The next step is to become a "Permanent
Resident" (aka greencard holder). Only after you have had a greencard for 5+ years can you apply to become a citizen.
And BTW: the INS is taking upto 2 years to
process citizenship applications! If you feel that people should be becoming citizens, ask the INS to speed up processing!
What if someone jams GPS freqs in an area?
A couple of years ago, someone at the Rome AFB
in central NY accidently jammed GPS in that
region for days. To quote the article,
An errant Air Force transmitter in upstate New
York jammed Global Positioning System satellite
navigation signals for two weeks earlier this year,
with at least one Continental Airlines flight
reporting a total loss of GPS signals and a dozen
other GPS-equipped aircraft filing interference
reports, according to officials from the Federal
Aviation Administration and the Defense and
Transportation departments.
Actually, it's part of patent law. You cannot patent that which has already been published.
Only outside the USA. In the US, something that
has been published can be patented within
(I think) 1 year of publication.
This is why RSA is patented in the US, and not
outside the US. The RSA authors published their
work first, and then tried to patent it.
Can we PLEASE move on? I'm sick of hearing about what an evil company this is because they're trying to
make a buck off of some free hardware.
The issues at stake are deeper than you think.
Companies like DC are using a nebulous law
to threaten the "hackers'" freedom to innovate and experiment (and I don't mean this in the M$ sense).
Computers, Internet(TM), etc. are where they
are today because kids all across this nation
(and the world) dared to experiment and try
new things. DC is just trying to kill that
spirit to protect an inherently flawed business
model.
And oh, BTW, "loss leaders" are welcomed with open arms (and open tool boxes;-)
Inspite of the mass hysteria, employers can't pay anything they want - they have to legally state how
much they pay and this has to be approved by the DoL (dept. of labor) BEFORE they grant it.
This is quietly violated by a lot of consulting companies by not paying the
H1B people who are on the bench.
I'm sure many people will say that these H1Bs
who are being exploited should go to the
authorities, etc. But you must look at
this stuff from their perspective: they
are often from corrupt countries where
going to the authorities is most often not
an option! So they quietly grin and bear the
abuse!
Linus is on an H1B visa. I recall reading an article about his visa troubles about a year ago.
LInus was on an H1B visa, just like 100K's of other techies from all over the globe.
He applied for a Green Card under the alien of
extra-ordinary ability, and that process was
delayed for many months. (I know this, because
I was in the exact same boat as Linus).
Anyways, to cut a long story short, the INS finally started moving on these greencard applications, and by now Linus most probably has his greencard (I do!).
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Would you seriously use a service that won't work in heavy winds and rain?
At that height (50K+ feet), it doesn't rain, I can assure you.
They should use the AeroVironment UAV instead of pilotted aircraft?
Stop to think for a minute. Why are these children working for Nike? Surely their parents would rather have them playing in the yard or going to school. There is quite a simple answer these childeren work for nike because their parents cannot provide for them and they would otherwise starve. No, you ignoramus. These children are working for Nike because children's hands are small and therefore children can do the job quicker. I know this, because I've been to carpet factories in India where children were hired to do the weaving for this exact reason.
What you Nike-proponents and capitalism-freaks don't realise is that by hiring children for these tasks, Nike is perpetuating the cycle of poverty: kids who work in these factories can't get educated, and when they grow up they send their kids to these factories, ad infinitum.
The broader question is: just because the local laws don't forbid something, is it OK to do it?
Here is an example. Just because laws in country X don't forbid child pornography, is it OK to go to that country in indulge in such activities with poor kids? Of course not! Even if the money you gave those kids in return was a LOT, it would still be immoral.
Lesseee.. the article says that it takes 100ms for a packet to circle the entire network. That means an average latency of 50ms. Jeez! Thats slower than a Winchester disk from 30 years ago!!
Here is something that most of the posters in this thread probably don't know.
Space Imaging is the only (major?) company out there that is commercializing satellite imagery. You can buy satellite images of any spot on the earth for a small chunk'a change. Now, did you know that 4 out of 7 satellites used by SapceImaging to take these shots are Indian ? Checkout the Satellite Constellation page for more details; the IRS* satellites are all Indian.
During the Gulf War, all of the space imagery that you saw on the networks and newspapers was from Indian satellites.
Last I heard American military cargo planes touched down on monday to distribute goods. And the US isn't alone in that aid.
In times of natural calamity, all civilised countries assist each other. When the wildfires in the western parts of the US became widespread, fire-fighting teams from Australia and Canada (among others) came over to help out. IIRC, there were a few counties in Montana which were totally under Canadian firefighters' control, a first for the US.
I mean, 5 km outside of Delhi and it doesn't look like a civilised city!!
I mean, 5 km inside Detroit and it doesn't look like a civilised city.
Your point is...?
ICBM? who needs intercontinental when the country you want to bomb back to the stone age shares a border with you? I guess you'd want to make sure you could hit EVERY part of pakistan.
What do you mean, back to the stone age? Stone age would be a step forward for Pakistan!
Hmmmm.. lesseeee...
dd if=/dev/random of=anonymous_n_vague.info bs=1k count=1024
should do it. Anyone want to buy this info?
We ordered a Sun Blade when it came out, back in November. We still haven't seen it yet. Sun keeps claiming that it will ship Real Soon Now(tm).
It seems to me Sun is trying awfully hard to become the next Micro$oft. Their marketing department is a close second to Micro$oft's when it comes to making tall claims and vaporware.
Besides, what type of message does it send to have criminals working for your government?
Isn't that what happens in the US?
From your description I would think the method would be even more valuable if it had a better way than testing randomly generated models to find an optimal set. Hinton has proposed methods to dependently train his experts, which to me seems a very desirable property. Using randomly generated models is actually a strength of SD, the "proof which this margin is too small to contain." <grin>
When are you guys going to come out with a version for RedHat 7.0?
Oh please! You are taking a physical-world analogy and applying it to the "electron world"!
This is one of the problems with LEOs today: they try to carry over incorrect analogies.
What this guy Dillinger did is perfectly legal.
If we kill the curiosity in our college kids, where will the innovations for the next generation come from?
All he can be accused of is gawking.
Haven't you ever rubber-necked at the scene of an accident?
You, sir, are forgetting Microsoft Bob(TM)...
I see them including gcc 2.96 as a positive thing.
I have a fairly large piece of simulation code that, for some reason, works slower on a RH6.0/6.1/6.2 machine than the same code compiled on a RH5.1 machine. In other words, I have 2 executables: one compiled on RH5.1, and the other compiled on RH6.x. The 5.1 version runs 10-20% faster on the same box compared to the RH6.x compiled version.
But now, with gcc 2.96, the compiler has finally caught up(!!), and the code runs as fast as the RH5.1 code. Yay!
In case your math isn't up to snuff, you will see that people from larger countries (like China, India, etc.) are the ones who can't get in in proportional numbers.
Also, the State Department has an annual lottery for people from countries which are "underrepresented" (i.e., western european countries, australia, etc.) among immigrants, and this lottery gives them an instant green-card. Needless to say, China,India,Mexico,Phillipines are not in this lottery!
Unfortunately, the path to becoming a citizen (for most people) starts with getting a visa to work. The next step is to become a "Permanent Resident" (aka greencard holder). Only after you have had a greencard for 5+ years can you apply to become a citizen.
And BTW: the INS is taking upto 2 years to process citizenship applications! If you feel that people should be becoming citizens, ask the INS to speed up processing!
A couple of years ago, someone at the Rome AFB in central NY accidently jammed GPS in that region for days. To quote the article,
You can read the entire article for more details.
Only outside the USA. In the US, something that has been published can be patented within (I think) 1 year of publication.
This is why RSA is patented in the US, and not outside the US. The RSA authors published their work first, and then tried to patent it.
Can we PLEASE move on? I'm sick of hearing about what an evil company this is because they're trying to make a buck off of some free hardware. ;-)
The issues at stake are deeper than you think. Companies like DC are using a nebulous law to threaten the "hackers'" freedom to innovate and experiment (and I don't mean this in the M$ sense).
Computers, Internet(TM), etc. are where they are today because kids all across this nation (and the world) dared to experiment and try new things. DC is just trying to kill that spirit to protect an inherently flawed business model.
And oh, BTW, "loss leaders" are welcomed with open arms (and open tool boxes
Inspite of the mass hysteria, employers can't pay anything they want - they have to legally state how much they pay and this has to be approved by the DoL (dept. of labor) BEFORE they grant it.
This is quietly violated by a lot of consulting companies by not paying the H1B people who are on the bench.
I'm sure many people will say that these H1Bs who are being exploited should go to the authorities, etc. But you must look at this stuff from their perspective: they are often from corrupt countries where going to the authorities is most often not an option! So they quietly grin and bear the abuse!
Linus is on an H1B visa. I recall reading an article about his visa troubles about a year ago.
LInus was on an H1B visa, just like 100K's of other techies from all over the globe.
He applied for a Green Card under the alien of extra-ordinary ability, and that process was delayed for many months. (I know this, because I was in the exact same boat as Linus).
Anyways, to cut a long story short, the INS finally started moving on these greencard applications, and by now Linus most probably has his greencard (I do!).
Cerf is a VP at MCI. Of course he's going to suck up the Gummit...