Notaries may not do much in 49 states but it'd be a good start to putting Clinton's digital signature law to use if one could, with a few clicks, legally certify it's you intentionally signing a document. Example: I submitted a spam to SpamCop.net recently and got back a notice from the spammer's ISP saying that they are being sued for damages and to restore service by the spammer and that they need people (the more, the better) to send them a notarized statement (that what they had received was spam and that their complaint/email to SpamCop was not simply a request to opt-out of a mailing list they'ed opted-into blah blah). It was a bit of a hassle getting to a notary for that, i'd rather have just digitally signed the boilerplate document they provided with my PGP private key or one from a Thawte personal certificate and forwarded it to an online notary who notarized, printed, and snail mailed it.
Once digital signatures and other aspects of cryptographic techniques are well accepted and integrated, everyone is wired with their little bioauthentication scanners, and all newly published info is available (for a price) online, we can get more creative. Example: it should go a long way to combatting ignorance and uncertainty based on credibility gaps when reporters can back up statements not just by citing references as at present but by linking to a statement, from a notary, that all their citations have been verified to have come from the sources claimed. (Further details and any provisos available at a click.)
As this fiction fades to fact, see them rendered twain.
Is anyone doing online notarization in the U.S. anyone know? Is it even possible under any U.S state's current law?
I've been thinking it'd be nice if webmasters had a way to notarize information and then point to that notarization (on the notary's website, for credibility). This would a way to backup certain claims in a way easy for people to verify. Good idea?
NSI doesn't do letters, is my experience. I wrote a letter as a last ditch attempt to get some help. It's been ~2yrs and i'm still waiting for a response.
Basically, I had the same experiences as the story submittor. NSI wasn't answering their phones, their site worked like shit and when you called them you'd hear a little message then <click>.
How much $ have these folks made? And you think this is the best they can do, and that they do it in the interests of "tight security"?? You are 180 degrees wrong.
The keyboard he mentioned is more rollable than foldable (despite the url) and it's from DNR Enterprises Inc. I don't see Plycon mentioned.
(And it's $30.)
Eric must have a v. healthy IQ. And he explains in his long but v. well written account of the CRC battle how important this 10yr, encyclopedic project was to him. Now how do you put those two things together with signing off on your publishing contract like you're renting a damn video? Wouldn't anyone have at least one (of your own) lawyers explain your publishing contract to you, and read it thoroughly yourself??
It says near the end of the article: development on proprietary OSes Solaris and Windows are to be eclipsed by development on Linux, where IBM can better compete with Microsoft and Sun.
Berkeley DB is a library. In order to use it, developers must link it with their applications.... We can force them to use an open source license or to pay us money. This strategy doesn't work for standalone applications like Web servers, relational database servers, or mail servers, because the end user doesn't change those or link directly with them.
I think this is saying that Berkeley db is free to all for internal use (by a business, etc) and that internally is the only place servers are used, so there their business model wouldn't work. But why couldn't someone selling server-type sw use a license that requires $ for any commercial use of their software, internally or externally? Doesn't that have the same (or more) $-making potential?
Except that if that doesn't pan out and you are still looking for an interesting project, you may want to check out Bluebox. (Something about a universal internet language.)
Aside from pattern recognition tasks, can you give me an example of where one knows how a fitness function should be scoring given input at the same time that the fitness function itself is unknown?
From what i've read and thought, the problem in using GAs is in det'ing how to break down a complex task into "tasklets" (my term) amenable to GA. Deciding where to apply a fitness function and for what it should be testing is the issue that really needs to be solved in the general case for GAs to become a widespread, practical technology.
While some objectives are ill-defined (eg, art and obscenity are typically defined as "i know it when i see it":-]), det'ing how a fitness function should be scoring given input and det'ing a usable fitness function are usually going to be ths same job.
A fitness function should return maximum value on correct data, minimum value on random data, and intermediate values for data with varying amounts of random errors.
If you had code that could determine how correct your data is that's all the fitness function you need.
The problem of how to break down complex programming tasks into GA-buildable algorithms is often very difficult for a knowledgable and intelligent person much less a computer program. Therefore an automagic general case solution is in my opinion impossible until there is a general and flexible art. intelligence, something I believe no one has much of clue how to build. The good news: it's fun to try in the meantime.
To find similar programs nation-wide go here or search with google.com on "community action agency". (I just applied to teach at one.)
"The History of Community Action Agencies" is given here. An excerpt:
"After the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, President Lyndon Baines Johnson expanded the policy ideas initiated in the Kennedy Administration and, in his message to Congress on January 8, 1964, declared the "War on Poverty." In August, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (EOA) was passed creating a federal Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). The EOA included new education, employment and training, and work-experience programs such as the Job Corps, the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA, the "domestic Peace Corps"). Congress bypassed the state and local governments and provided for direct funding of community groups; the community action concept was empowered.
While the federal OEO was to lead the efforts of the War on Poverty and coordinate related programs of all other federal agencies, the Community Action Agencies (CAAs) were to fight poverty at the local level. Across the nation CAAs opened in neighborhood centers in storefronts, housing projects and other buildings in low-income areas where they identified people who needed help and were eligible for assistance."
To the extent that undocumented knowledge of the MIT course materials doesn't count, a market opportunity exists (minus, of course, the cost of setting up ways of measuring the knowledge and establishing credibility) to certify knowledge of it.
Maybe Linus could ace it but the Linux Admin test, i found out, is certainly not in the joke category.
Their cert prep ($20) i found to be helpful and enjoyable (matches my study style) but (as is only legitimate) there is no re-use and little overlap of the prep questions w/ the actual test. The area of coverage, though, is the same.
Instead of ignoring what may be good information, why not put the job applicant in a room with a test whose result you question and closing the door? You can measure your time to room re-entry yourself.
If you're going to dismiss w/o attempting to verify your applicants' claims, why even ask for a resume/application? Evaluate applicants with your intuition/skin color/magic eight ball.
His rant's main point was that 'hiring managers toss out resumes of smart people, then whine to the government that "no one qualified even applied for the job"' which, if true, would be lying.
It is agreed that one has to keep up on the certification treadmill.
How seriously do folks take the brainbench.com cert's? Just wondering because I'm about to start taking their tests.
That site has ~5 linux cert's. They can be passed via a ~50min, $25 online exam. The tests are open book with 2min to complete each question. The employer can verify it was really you that took an exam by giving you another version of the test downloadable by employers for free.
as a codpiece, this keyboard would make a perfect complement to an eyeglass-mounted display.
That way one can compute even whilst walking thru traffic, just stick your hands in your pockets and have at it. (Make a call from your head mounted cellphone at the same time and you may even score a Darwin Award.)
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Obviously, I have answered the q. But like everyone else posting to /., i'm interested in others' opinion as well.
good info, thanks.
Notaries may not do much in 49 states but it'd be a good start to putting Clinton's digital signature law to use if one could, with a few clicks, legally certify it's you intentionally signing a document. Example: I submitted a spam to SpamCop.net recently and got back a notice from the spammer's ISP saying that they are being sued for damages and to restore service by the spammer and that they need people (the more, the better) to send them a notarized statement (that what they had received was spam and that their complaint/email to SpamCop was not simply a request to opt-out of a mailing list they'ed opted-into blah blah). It was a bit of a hassle getting to a notary for that, i'd rather have just digitally signed the boilerplate document they provided with my PGP private key or one from a Thawte personal certificate and forwarded it to an online notary who notarized, printed, and snail mailed it.
Once digital signatures and other aspects of cryptographic techniques are well accepted and integrated, everyone is wired with their little bioauthentication scanners, and all newly published info is available (for a price) online, we can get more creative. Example: it should go a long way to combatting ignorance and uncertainty based on credibility gaps when reporters can back up statements not just by citing references as at present but by linking to a statement, from a notary, that all their citations have been verified to have come from the sources claimed. (Further details and any provisos available at a click.)
As this fiction fades to fact, see them rendered twain.
Is anyone doing online notarization in the U.S. anyone know? Is it even possible under any U.S state's current law?
I've been thinking it'd be nice if webmasters had a way to notarize information and then point to that notarization (on the notary's website, for credibility). This would a way to backup certain claims in a way easy for people to verify. Good idea?
NSI doesn't do letters, is my experience. I wrote a letter as a last ditch attempt to get some help. It's been ~2yrs and i'm still waiting for a response.
Basically, I had the same experiences as the story submittor. NSI wasn't answering their phones, their site worked like shit and when you called them you'd hear a little message then <click>.
How much $ have these folks made? And you think this is the best they can do, and that they do it in the interests of "tight security"?? You are 180 degrees wrong.
The keyboard he mentioned is more rollable than foldable (despite the url) and it's from DNR Enterprises Inc. I don't see Plycon mentioned.
(And it's $30.)
The link, once again.
Anyone know the story re: move from Postgres? (Not guesses.) thanks.
Eric must have a v. healthy IQ. And he explains in his long but v. well written account of the CRC battle how important this 10yr, encyclopedic project was to him. Now how do you put those two things together with signing off on your publishing contract like you're renting a damn video? Wouldn't anyone have at least one (of your own) lawyers explain your publishing contract to you, and read it thoroughly yourself??
It says near the end of the article: development on proprietary OSes Solaris and Windows are to be eclipsed by development on Linux, where IBM can better compete with Microsoft and Sun.
We can't charge very much for custom code creation, Olsen says. Anyone know why not?
(And what are the problems alluded to with "open-ended no-cost full-version evals" when companies evaluate Berkeley DB vs. its competitors?)
Berkeley DB is a library. In order to use it, developers must link it with their applications. ... We can force them to use an open source license or to pay us money. This strategy doesn't work for standalone applications like Web servers, relational database servers, or mail servers, because the end user doesn't change those or link directly with them.
I think this is saying that Berkeley db is free to all for internal use (by a business, etc) and that internally is the only place servers are used, so there their business model wouldn't work. But why couldn't someone selling server-type sw use a license that requires $ for any commercial use of their software, internally or externally? Doesn't that have the same (or more) $-making potential?
Save it for 4/1. And if you're going to waste people's time, at least make it funny.
Sorry, nothing further to add.
Except that if that doesn't pan out and you are still looking for an interesting project, you may want to check out Bluebox. (Something about a universal internet language.)
Aside from pattern recognition tasks, can you give me an example of where one knows how a fitness function should be scoring given input at the same time that the fitness function itself is unknown?
:-]), det'ing how a fitness function should be scoring given input and det'ing a usable fitness function are usually going to be ths same job.
From what i've read and thought, the problem in using GAs is in det'ing how to break down a complex task into "tasklets" (my term) amenable to GA. Deciding where to apply a fitness function and for what it should be testing is the issue that really needs to be solved in the general case for GAs to become a widespread, practical technology.
While some objectives are ill-defined (eg, art and obscenity are typically defined as "i know it when i see it"
A fitness function should return maximum value on correct data, minimum value on random data, and intermediate values for data with varying amounts of random errors.
If you had code that could determine how correct your data is that's all the fitness function you need.
The problem of how to break down complex programming tasks into GA-buildable algorithms is often very difficult for a knowledgable and intelligent person much less a computer program. Therefore an automagic general case solution is in my opinion impossible until there is a general and flexible art. intelligence, something I believe no one has much of clue how to build. The good news: it's fun to try in the meantime.
To find similar programs nation-wide go here or search with google.com on "community action agency". (I just applied to teach at one.)
"The History of Community Action Agencies" is given here. An excerpt:
"After the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, President Lyndon Baines Johnson expanded the policy ideas initiated in the Kennedy Administration and, in his message to Congress on January 8, 1964, declared the "War on Poverty." In August, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (EOA) was passed creating a federal Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). The EOA included new education, employment and training, and work-experience programs such as the Job Corps, the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA, the "domestic Peace Corps"). Congress bypassed the state and local governments and provided for direct funding of community groups; the community action concept was empowered.
While the federal OEO was to lead the efforts of the War on Poverty and coordinate related programs of all other federal agencies, the Community Action Agencies (CAAs) were to fight poverty at the local level. Across the nation CAAs opened in neighborhood centers in storefronts, housing projects and other buildings in low-income areas where they identified people who needed help and were eligible for assistance."
To the extent that undocumented knowledge of the MIT course materials doesn't count, a market opportunity exists (minus, of course, the cost of setting up ways of measuring the knowledge and establishing credibility) to certify knowledge of it.
Maybe Linus could ace it but the Linux Admin test, i found out, is certainly not in the joke category.
Their cert prep ($20) i found to be helpful and enjoyable (matches my study style) but (as is only legitimate) there is no re-use and little overlap of the prep questions w/ the actual test. The area of coverage, though, is the same.
Instead of ignoring what may be good information, why not put the job applicant in a room with a test whose result you question and closing the door? You can measure your time to room re-entry yourself.
If you're going to dismiss w/o attempting to verify your applicants' claims, why even ask for a resume/application? Evaluate applicants with your intuition/skin color/magic eight ball.
This sentence is false.
"Good Answer!", thx.
What about their Study Guides? Like them?
Are recruiters/employers starting to become familiar with Brainbench? Or is it still an unknown quantity?
His rant's main point was that 'hiring managers toss out resumes of smart people, then whine to the government that "no one qualified even applied for the job"' which, if true, would be lying.
It is agreed that one has to keep up on the certification treadmill.
How seriously do folks take the brainbench.com cert's? Just wondering because I'm about to start taking their tests.
That site has ~5 linux cert's. They can be passed via a ~50min, $25 online exam. The tests are open book with 2min to complete each question. The employer can verify it was really you that took an exam by giving you another version of the test downloadable by employers for free.
as a codpiece, this keyboard would make a perfect complement to an eyeglass-mounted display. That way one can compute even whilst walking thru traffic, just stick your hands in your pockets and have at it. (Make a call from your head mounted cellphone at the same time and you may even score a Darwin Award.)
Why does the OS matter if you only get apps? Or do you get a command line? I didn't find mention of that in the article or their website.
At Space.com, click the Next link at bottom until you get to the Ornithopter article.
As an aside in case they're listening, Space.com's search could use some work (didn't find the Ornithopter article searching on that word).
I clicked on your cups.org link and reached a web search engine.