There's little practical limit (though "infinite" is a gross exaggeration, given physical storage requirements) on replicating data. So "data" qua "data" is nearly an infinite resource.
There is, however, a strictly limited amount of *new* data. Whether we like to think it or not, the "newness" of data has value. Once it is copied infinitely, or has existed for long enough, its value (both as a producer and consumer) is essentially zero.
Every copy made of data reduces the "newness" component of the value of that data roughly proportional to the number of copies existing.
Ok, sure *originally*, but that's a bit like saying that NASA can put conditions on people's ability to buy and drink Tang.
Only a *tiny* fraction of the internet is government funded, created or even researched any more. If they want to prohibit India from visiting.gov sites, more power to them.
The difference between those scenarios is that in the yelling through the window case, the actual activity was observed from school grounds, and the student was proximate to school grounds. The disruption occurred on school grounds and therefore is reasonable excuse for suspension.
In this case, the people reading the profile were not on school grounds at the time, nor was the student when doing that action. Additionally, the notion that the authority of the principal and teachers must remain unquestioned is a dangerous one that is the root cause of many problems in the world today. It's *disruption of the school environment* that needs to be controlled.
Even if I bought this, which I don't, it doesn't apply in any of the situations we're examining here. The incidents mentioned in the article were all about *surreptitiously* recording the police and using it later. Obviously if a trained observer doesn't notice the camera, it's not going to have the effects described here.
Ummm... Corporatism is the exact *opposite* of fascism. It's even more insidiously bad, but it's not just another word for the same thing.
In fascism, the government takes control of the operations of corporations for the benefit of the state, while nominally leaving the ownership of those businesses in private hands.
In corporatism, the corporations take control of the operations of the government for the benefit of the corporations, while nominally leaving ownership of the government in the hands of the people.
I have to read between the lines a little, because as usual we don't have a link to the *actual* study, just some journalist's warped view of it, but, that said...
Non-addicts can *exceed* baseline using caffeine, but addicts cannot. I don't think this study measured the length of time addicts and/or non-addicts can remain at or above baseline, but the notion that non-addicts would outperform on this metric is a reasonable hypothesis to take from the study. Of course, it needs to be extensively tested (I'll get back to you on that after my coffee break).
The conclusion is that it is best to use caffeine in moderation and on an as-needed basis rather than chronically.
The County policy stating that you are to avoid giving your password to your boss *explicitly* says that it applies both to user-level passwords, and to system level passwords such as root, network admin passwords, etc.
This is true on *some* cars, but not all. Almost any car that has 4-wheel disk brakes as a *separate* drum brake for the parking/emergency brake. There are good technical reasons for this (mostly that it's really hard to have both a cable and hydraulic system control a disk brake reliably).
What exactly is the definition of "property"? I'll tell you what it is: it's whatever society declares is property and protects your rights to. Anything else is wishful thinking.
That depends, did the person accused know about this problem and intentionally exacerbate it, thereby inflicting mental suffering, by pretending to inflict curses on you? If so, it's probably legally harassment.
People seem to *always* forget the intent (or negligence as perceived by a "reasonable person") component of these things.
So did the car actually move with your foot pressed hard on the brake, or did it just surge?
Did you ever try pressing both at maximum force in that car? Was the engine actually capable of overpowering the brakes?
If it was, you had defective brakes. Not that uncommon. What would be extraordinarily uncommon is a throttle failure happening at the same time as a brake failure. Brakes that fail in such a way that the engine can overpower them are very obviously broken in normal use.
If it wasn't, then what's the point here? People are idiots. Even smart people are idiots when they panic (even just a little).
Pssst... don't know if you noticed, but doctors aren't licensed by the federal government, they are licensed by the states (which due to the full faith clause means they are licensed everywhere in the US, but that's a separate issue).
Actually, following your link results in a page containing 4 models all preloaded with Windows XP. Customizing those leads to a page where the only OS selection is Windows XP.
The only netbook I've seen of theirs that comes with Ubuntu by default is the cheapest 8" one that's only ~$50 less than the cheapest 10" ones with XP. (via a link different than the one you posted)
But it's true that it's hardly a challenge to find a Ubuntu machine. Particularly if you're looking for one.
The thermal efficiency of a typical fossil fuel power plant is in the 35%-40% range. Supercritical designs can bump that up to ~50%, and the most efficient (and expensive) technologies available at the present time can reach ~60%.
However, you're underestimating the degree to which internal combustion engines have been optimized. Their typical thermal efficiency is around 30%, and the most efficient ones range up to 40%.
So, yes, there's a difference, but it's not that dramatic. It's actually extremely tricky to come up with a valid comparison that shows one or the other to be clearly superior, when you count all the extraction, refining, transportation/transmission costs, etc., etc.
Power plants do win, but it's not a slam dunk.
You're also underestimating the emissions technology of modern cars. It is very much possible to scrub their output, and it is almost universally done. A Prius effectively *cleans* the air running through it, for example. Coal fired plants still emit a lot more pollutants (aside from CO2) than cars for the same useful energy.
It doesn't say specifically, but I'm guessing it makes use of the saccade effect. Your brain literally doesn't see changes in the visual field while your eyes are moving from one spot to another (this motion is called a saccade).
So, basically, the text is only "correct" in the exact spot you're looking at any instant... as soon as your eyes move to the next word, the gibberish that's there before the saccade is changed to the "correct" word for that new spot. And you don't notice.
Anyone that the camera is not tracking would just see random gibberish because the words they are looking at usually haven't been changed to be the "correct" ones for that spot at the instant they are looking at them.
It's a well known process... just never applied to the field of security before. Also, it would take a very high-speed, very high-resolution camera, so I doubt it's applicability to general purpose computers any time soon.
And, of course, if someone watching you has the same high-speed, high-resolution camera that you have, they could just record the whole video stream and perform an analysis on it... so it's not terribly good security either.
Yes, this is the (increasingly fascist) U.S. I'm talking about, but telephone "pen registers" have never required a warrant for the police to acquire (though at some point I think they started needing to get a judge's order, which is a much weaker thing since the judge is essentially required to give if if they ask nicely).
IP addresses, and the like, are entirely analogous to pen register data (which include what phones called what numbers, when, and for how long, but not the actual content of the phone calls).
The (in my mind inappropriately applied) argument for this is that you're already providing this information to a 3rd party (the phone company), for their use in connecting your call, so you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy for it.
So (in the U.S. at least)... nothing to see here, move along.
While I tend to agree with the *spirit* of your comment, I'm sure the prosecutors meant: "This ruling makes it harder to prosecute actual violations of actual children, in cases where the child can't easily be identified".
The US spends so much more on healthcare than the rest of the world because Americans are (on average) vastly less healthy in their lifestyles and choices than the rest of the world.
That, and we don't just let the idiots die. It's really expensive to keep an idiot alive.
A study done recently debunks any statistically significant speed advantage for Dvorak, and that indeed Dvorak's own studies were severely flawed and used selectively favorable data.
Turns out that the learning curves are a little bit different, but once you're really proficient at touch typing with one reasonable layout, you're just as fast as with any other reasonable layout.
And the advantages of that one layout you're "really proficient at" being QWERTY are rather huge... at least in comparison to the disadvantages.
Of course, if you have RSI, changing to any other layout will probably help (for a while), but apparently Dvorak doesn't even have an intrinsic ergonomic advantage.
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There is, however, a strictly limited amount of *new* data. Whether we like to think it or not, the "newness" of data has value. Once it is copied infinitely, or has existed for long enough, its value (both as a producer and consumer) is essentially zero.
Every copy made of data reduces the "newness" component of the value of that data roughly proportional to the number of copies existing.
Only a *tiny* fraction of the internet is government funded, created or even researched any more. If they want to prohibit India from visiting .gov sites, more power to them.
And also, BTW, it's a software patent.
Yet *another* reason to install AdBlock... reduced propaganda!
In this case, the people reading the profile were not on school grounds at the time, nor was the student when doing that action. Additionally, the notion that the authority of the principal and teachers must remain unquestioned is a dangerous one that is the root cause of many problems in the world today. It's *disruption of the school environment* that needs to be controlled.
Even if I bought this, which I don't, it doesn't apply in any of the situations we're examining here. The incidents mentioned in the article were all about *surreptitiously* recording the police and using it later. Obviously if a trained observer doesn't notice the camera, it's not going to have the effects described here.
In fascism, the government takes control of the operations of corporations for the benefit of the state, while nominally leaving the ownership of those businesses in private hands.
In corporatism, the corporations take control of the operations of the government for the benefit of the corporations, while nominally leaving ownership of the government in the hands of the people.
Non-addicts can *exceed* baseline using caffeine, but addicts cannot. I don't think this study measured the length of time addicts and/or non-addicts can remain at or above baseline, but the notion that non-addicts would outperform on this metric is a reasonable hypothesis to take from the study. Of course, it needs to be extensively tested (I'll get back to you on that after my coffee break).
The conclusion is that it is best to use caffeine in moderation and on an as-needed basis rather than chronically.
If by "slightly" you mean "a bit over a factor of 7.5", then yes. 4.86 * 13.9 / 9
While this is true, it's worth remembering that the #1 smartphone *OS* is still Symbian, *by far*. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone
The County policy stating that you are to avoid giving your password to your boss *explicitly* says that it applies both to user-level passwords, and to system level passwords such as root, network admin passwords, etc.
This is true on *some* cars, but not all. Almost any car that has 4-wheel disk brakes as a *separate* drum brake for the parking/emergency brake. There are good technical reasons for this (mostly that it's really hard to have both a cable and hydraulic system control a disk brake reliably).
What exactly is the definition of "property"? I'll tell you what it is: it's whatever society declares is property and protects your rights to. Anything else is wishful thinking.
That depends, did the person accused know about this problem and intentionally exacerbate it, thereby inflicting mental suffering, by pretending to inflict curses on you? If so, it's probably legally harassment. People seem to *always* forget the intent (or negligence as perceived by a "reasonable person") component of these things.
Did you ever try pressing both at maximum force in that car? Was the engine actually capable of overpowering the brakes?
If it was, you had defective brakes. Not that uncommon. What would be extraordinarily uncommon is a throttle failure happening at the same time as a brake failure. Brakes that fail in such a way that the engine can overpower them are very obviously broken in normal use.
If it wasn't, then what's the point here? People are idiots. Even smart people are idiots when they panic (even just a little).
Personally, I don't see why any network provider in a libertarian world would choose non-neutrality. The liability is just *way* too high.
Pssst... don't know if you noticed, but doctors aren't licensed by the federal government, they are licensed by the states (which due to the full faith clause means they are licensed everywhere in the US, but that's a separate issue).
The only netbook I've seen of theirs that comes with Ubuntu by default is the cheapest 8" one that's only ~$50 less than the cheapest 10" ones with XP. (via a link different than the one you posted)
But it's true that it's hardly a challenge to find a Ubuntu machine. Particularly if you're looking for one.
However, you're underestimating the degree to which internal combustion engines have been optimized. Their typical thermal efficiency is around 30%, and the most efficient ones range up to 40%.
So, yes, there's a difference, but it's not that dramatic. It's actually extremely tricky to come up with a valid comparison that shows one or the other to be clearly superior, when you count all the extraction, refining, transportation/transmission costs, etc., etc.
Power plants do win, but it's not a slam dunk.
You're also underestimating the emissions technology of modern cars. It is very much possible to scrub their output, and it is almost universally done. A Prius effectively *cleans* the air running through it, for example. Coal fired plants still emit a lot more pollutants (aside from CO2) than cars for the same useful energy.
So, basically, the text is only "correct" in the exact spot you're looking at any instant... as soon as your eyes move to the next word, the gibberish that's there before the saccade is changed to the "correct" word for that new spot. And you don't notice.
Anyone that the camera is not tracking would just see random gibberish because the words they are looking at usually haven't been changed to be the "correct" ones for that spot at the instant they are looking at them.
It's a well known process... just never applied to the field of security before. Also, it would take a very high-speed, very high-resolution camera, so I doubt it's applicability to general purpose computers any time soon.
And, of course, if someone watching you has the same high-speed, high-resolution camera that you have, they could just record the whole video stream and perform an analysis on it... so it's not terribly good security either.
IP addresses, and the like, are entirely analogous to pen register data (which include what phones called what numbers, when, and for how long, but not the actual content of the phone calls).
The (in my mind inappropriately applied) argument for this is that you're already providing this information to a 3rd party (the phone company), for their use in connecting your call, so you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy for it.
So (in the U.S. at least)... nothing to see here, move along.
While I tend to agree with the *spirit* of your comment, I'm sure the prosecutors meant: "This ruling makes it harder to prosecute actual violations of actual children, in cases where the child can't easily be identified".
Not in my backyard, they won't!
That, and we don't just let the idiots die. It's really expensive to keep an idiot alive.
Turns out that the learning curves are a little bit different, but once you're really proficient at touch typing with one reasonable layout, you're just as fast as with any other reasonable layout.
And the advantages of that one layout you're "really proficient at" being QWERTY are rather huge... at least in comparison to the disadvantages.
Of course, if you have RSI, changing to any other layout will probably help (for a while), but apparently Dvorak doesn't even have an intrinsic ergonomic advantage.